Bloomberg A parade of up-and-coming musicians from Universal Music took the stage at the Ace Hotel in downt- own Los Angeles in a pre-Grammy Awards performance for a room full of the executives who will make or break their careers. Talent bookers from James Corden’s late-night show, marketing executives from top brands and executives from Spotify Ltd. and YouTube ...

  Bloomberg A consortium of Australia’s biggest banks has abandoned its attempt to negotiate as a bloc with Apple Inc. over the cost of using its mobile payment system, narrowing its claim to focus solely on access to a key piece of iPhone technology. In their final submission to the competition regulator, the banks hit back at earlier claims by ...

  Bloomberg The Pentagon is paying hackers to test its key internal systems for vulnerabilities — and they are finding weaknesses faster than expected. In a pilot project this past month, the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service let about 80 security researchers into a simulated “file transfer mechanism” the department depends on to send sensitive e-mails, documents and images between networks, ...