Iconic Producer Quincy Jones Lends His Expertise to the Quincy 100 Index
Iconic music producer Quincy Jones is lending his expertise to a new index, the Quincy 100 Index. The fund is made up of 100 companies will focus entirely on music streaming companies and businesses.
Donna Nairi is the founder and CEO of Iconicbeta, the group behind the development and licensing of the Quincy 100 Index. Nairi joins Cheddar to explain why they wanted to pursue a music streaming index. Nairi and Quincy Jones are both bullish on the field and see it as the future of music.
To be included in the index the international companies have to have at least $1 billion in market value. Nairi says while she cannot talk about it, future opportunities to invest and get involved in the Index should be available sometime soon.
Technology company Unity announced it has acquired Ziva Dynamics. Marc Whitten, SVP & GM, Create at Unity, joins Cheddar News' Closing Bell, where he discusses how this move will help his company democratize real-time character creation.
AT&T announced it's offering two tiers of high-speed internet, 2 gigs, and 5 gigs, to its fiber customers in more than 70 metro regions. AT&T Consumer CEO Thaddeus Arroyo joined Cheddar to talk about the newly available speed upgrades for 5.2 million of its customers, and where the rollout goes from here. "Over the course of 2022, we'll rapidly continue to retrofit the rest of the base," he said. "And importantly now is, as we build-out, we've talked about building out to cover 30 million homes and businesses by the end of 2025, we're going to continue to ensure that every new location that we stand up has this multi gig capability."
Autonomous driving tech company Waymo is partnering with transportation and logistics business J.B. Hunt. The two firms are teaming up to bring autonomous shipping to the highways. Head of commercialization for trucking at Waymo, Charlie Jatt, joined Cheddar to discuss how the companies are combining their strengths. "We, of course at Waymo, are working on the technology side of affairs, and J. B Hunt brings critical operational and commercial expertise," Jatt said. "And together we're going to work to deploy the first fully autonomous Class 8 truck hauling goods for one of their customers in the coming years in Texas."
As companies look toward the metaverse concept to further move their companies online, Shep Ogden, CEO and co-founder of Offbeat Media, spoke with Cheddar about questions investors should be posing to businesses like how customized the metaverse experience will be. "One of the best things that people can do, or companies can do, to be competitive is really find those influencers within the community that are very deep in the space," Ogden added.
Ann Berry, Chief Investment Officer at Wheelhouse, joined Wake Up With Cheddar to break down why Netflix stock saw such a steep decline in after hours trading on Thursday.
Bill Lawton, Principal Research Engineer AT Georgia Tech Research Institute, joined Cheddar News to break down the latest with the controversial rollout of 5G, as the FAA continues to investigate possible flight disruptions.
