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Saregama forms global partnership with Facebook

SAREGAMA on Wednesday (3) announced a global deal with Facebook to license its music for video and other social experiences across Facebook and Instagram.

This partnership will allow users to choose from a wide variety of music to add to their social experiences such as videos, stories via music stickers and other creative content, a statement said. Users will also be able to add songs to their Facebook profile, it added.


"Now millions of Facebook users will be able to add music from our vast catalogue to stories and videos they create and share," Saregama India managing director Vikram Mehra said.

Saregama has a catalogue of over 100,000 songs across many different genres including film songs, devotional music, ghazals and indipop in more than 25 languages.

"Saregama will allow people, globally, to use their favourite retro Indian music to further enrich their content on our platforms," said Manish Chopra, director and head of partnerships at Facebook India.

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  • Anand Varadarajan appointed Starbucks CTO, effective 19 January, after 19 years at Amazon.
  • IIT graduate to oversee tech transformation in stores to improve labour efficiency.
  • Appointment comes as Starbucks reports first quarterly sales gains in nearly 18 months.

Starbucks has named Anand Varadarajan as its new chief technology officer, effective January (19), as CEO Brian Niccol drives a technology overhaul aimed at making store operations more efficient.

Varadarajan joins the global coffee chain after spending 19 years at Amazon, where he led technology and supply chain operations for the company's worldwide grocery business. He replaces Deb Hall Lefevre, who stepped down in September, with Ningyu Chen serving as interim CTO.

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