🎧 Apple Music Replay and Spotify Wrapped Are Here

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Here’s what’s on the horizon today:

• Apple Music Replay and Spotify Wrapped are here

• Walmart completes $2.3 billion acquisition of Vizio

• Cathie Wood predicts Bitcoin’s market cap will soon flip gold

• Mt. Gox moves $2.4 billion in Bitcoin after BTC surges past $100K

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Apple Music Replay and Spotify Wrapped are here

Spotify Wrapped is a fan-favorite year-end feature that highlights your music journey with vibrant graphics. For 2024, it reveals your top songs, artists, and genres, tracks your evolving listening habits, and includes a short video interview with a featured artist. It’s a fun way to relive your year in sound.

This year’s Wrapped also introduces a personalized podcast hosted by two AI personalities. Powered by Google’s NotebookLM, they dive into your listening stats, adding extra entertainment to your recap.

Apple Music competes with Wrapped through its own year-end feature, Replay. Like Wrapped, it highlights top songs, artists, and albums, but also includes unique details like “listening streaks” and the exact dates you first played your favorite tracks. Together, these recaps offer new ways to reflect on your year of streaming.

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Walmart completes $2.3 billion acquisition of Vizio

Walmart has officially acquired Vizio for $2.3 billion in an all-cash deal, finalizing a transaction first reported in February after a federal waiting period. The acquisition strengthens Walmart’s advertising business by integrating Vizio’s TV hardware into its Walmart Connect platform.

With this move, Walmart aims to become a leader in connected TV advertising, competing directly with companies like Amazon, Google, and Roku. The integration provides Walmart with direct access to valuable customer data, including viewing habits and shopping preferences.

By combining its retail power with Vizio’s TVs, Walmart can deliver highly personalized ads and offers, improving the shopping experience. Additionally, Walmart gains control of Vizio’s WatchFree+ streaming service, expanding its reach in the digital advertising space.

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Cathie Wood predicts Bitcoin’s market cap will soon flip gold

Bitcoin hit a historic $100,000 milestone on December 5, and ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood believes it's just the beginning. Despite this achievement, she asserts that Bitcoin is still in its “early innings,” with a bright future ahead.

Wood praised the crypto industry, noting the nomination of Paul Atkins, a pro-crypto figure, as SEC chief by Donald Trump. She also highlighted Jerome Powell’s comparison of Bitcoin to digital gold, reinforcing Bitcoin’s growing value and significance in global markets.

With Bitcoin currently valued at $102,750 and a market cap around $2 trillion, Wood sees its potential far surpassing gold’s $15 trillion market. She believes Bitcoin’s digital, borderless nature makes it a much bigger idea than gold, and predicts it could break $1 million by 2025.

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Mt. Gox moves $2.4B in Bitcoin after BTC surges past $100K

Mt. Gox, the collapsed crypto exchange, moved over 24,000 Bitcoin (worth nearly $2.5 billion) to an unknown address on December 5, just after Bitcoin hit the $100,000 milestone. This was the first transfer since November 12, with the transaction taking place at 2:45 am UTC, just before Bitcoin peaked at $104,000.

The reason behind the transfer remains unclear, but similar moves in the past have been linked to payouts for Mt. Gox’s creditors. While some fear this could put selling pressure on Bitcoin, analysts argue the market has already priced in these movements, as the payouts have been expected for years.

As of now, Mt. Gox still holds 39,878 BTC, valued at about $4.1 billion. The trustee managing the exchange's assets has extended the creditor repayment deadline to October 31, 2025.

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