Tencent Holdings 
Tencent Music Entertainment Group 
Huawei 
Richard Ross, a longtime TV writer-director-producer and guitarist with the popular L.A. band Dick and Jane Family Orchestra, died of natural causes at home in Los Angeles on Nov. 24. He was 70. Ross and his wife, Jane Cantillon, led the punk-meets-cabaret-meets-folk band Dick and Jane Family Orchestra, which played a wide array of gigs around Los Angeles and in other cities over many years, often donating their services to charitable events. The orchestra was the house band for a...
Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Ross
Liang
CEO
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) continues to be China’s top music and audio content purveyor, not to mention being the company that has helped convert the country’s populous market from a hotbed of piracy to a significant revenue generator with enormous growth potential. In 2022, Liang’s team saw continued growth in both paying customers and overall revenue. Paid users climbed to 82.7 million in the second quarter, up 24.9% over the prior year, while revenue grew to $315 million, up by 17.6%. TME’s mission to promote cultural exchanges in global music got a boost in August when Billboard announced the company would be its partner in promoting the worldwide development of Chinese music. That initiative populates Billboard content throughout such TME platforms as QQ Music, Kugou Music and Kuwo Music.
