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Notes.fm Raises $5 Million to Unify Royalties, Publishing, and Distribution for Independent Artists

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New funding from leading artists and music industry executives—including Zach Bryan, Benny Blanco, Tainy, Ari Emanuel, Julie Greenwald, Sam Hendel, and others—supports the next phase of growth as Notes.fm builds a new financial layer for the music economy

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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Notes.fm, the music royalty collection platform helping musicians and music companies identify and collect 100% of their royalties, announces it has raised $5 million from leading artists, managers, executives and strategic partners across the music industry. Notes is the latest venture from Stem co-founder Tim Luckow, on a mission to support independent artists with the best-in-class technology for distribution and publishing under one roof so they can have full control over their earnings and stop missing out on money that is rightfully theirs.

The round includes participation from a range of influential artists and music industry leaders from Benny Blanco, Zach Bryan and his managers Stefan Max and Danny Kang, Tainy, Blake Slatkin, and Mt. Joy frontman Matt Quinn, WME Group Executive Chairman Ari Emanuel, Chord Music founder Sam Hendel, longtime Atlantic Records chief and 26.2 founder Julie Greenwald, as well as many of the industry’s leading companies including Foundations, Mick Management, Twenty Ten Management, Triple 8, KMGMT, Good Boy, Mexican Summer, and Breakaway. The funding will support continued platform development and scaled marketing efforts as Notes expands its offering to artists globally.

Notes recently debuted a new feature “Releases” and unveiled its new partnership with Stripe, to streamline distribution, publishing admin and money management into one simplified release flow for musicians. This allows artists to use Notes.fm as the home for both distribution and royalty collection, making it easy for artists and their teams to take simultaneous ownership of their creative output and the income it generates. Notes is founded on the principle that every artist should receive all of their royalties. That’s why they take 0% participation in distribution and publishing royalties, charging a flat monthly subscription fee instead. It’s the same ethos behind their catalog royalty review technology, which helps rights owners identify missing royalties across their catalog and fix the issues so they can claim all of the royalties they’ve earned while they can.

This isn’t new for Notes. Since launch, they’ve rolled out capabilities that allow artists and rights holders to more seamlessly manage their earnings, including integrated financial accounts designed to give users more flexibility in how they collect, store, and transfer, and earn on income. These updates are part of a broader effort to build a more complete financial layer for the modern music ecosystem.

Prior to Releases, Notes also announced  Credits.fm, a free and open music credits database indexing more than 150 million song codes and credits to help the music industry organize, verify, and connect the data powering royalties and artist compensation in the age of AI.

“Music is evolving quickly, and the finance systems around it need to evolve at a faster rate,” said Tim Luckow, CEO and co-founder of Notes.fm. “Between all of the actions required to properly release, credit and collect on music, there are a lot of places where money falls through the cracks. We built Notes to bring all of that into one platform — so artists can release music and collect every royalty from day one, and recover what’s historically been missed.”

“Having spent our careers working with artists at every level, we’ve seen firsthand how much value gets lost to fragmented, unnecessarily complex systems,” adds co-founder Derek Davies. “The response to Notes from the music community has been incredibly meaningful, and we’re proud to announce a raise funded almost exclusively by artists, managers and music industry strategics who have a native understanding of these issues firsthand. This raise gives us the resources to keep building the infrastructure and applications that we believe the next generation of artists deserves.”

Notes has created an artist-friendly, automated process to simplify a notoriously complex and outdated system that has historically led to hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties going unclaimed by artists every year. Notes brings clarity to the complexity, requiring only a musician name and list of songs to start reviewing streaming services, collection societies, and registries like the MLC and SoundExchange. The platform not only identifies missing royalties, but it also helps an artist fix issues and directly claim the royalties that result from those corrections while ensuring future income flows correctly.

Following its public launch last year, Notes has already demonstrated strong early traction, identifying more than $10 million in previously unclaimed royalties across a broad range of artists and catalogs including James Blake, Zach Bryan, Mt. Joy, Girl In Red and more. The platform continues to grow across both emerging and established artists, reflecting a shared demand for greater clarity and access in how music earnings are tracked and distributed.

By bringing together royalty discovery, payments infrastructure, and music-centric financial management into a single experience, Notes.fm is helping to create a new system that better supports artists as their careers and audiences grow.

About Notes.fm
Notes.fm is a music royalty collection platform built to help independent musicians, artists and music companies collect all of their royalties in one easy-to-use place. Founded by Stem co-founder Tim Luckow, Notes brings distribution, publishing, and financial tools under one roof, giving musicians and companies the technology to release music, verify song credits, manage their catalogs, and collect every royalty they’re owed. Music Royalties, Simplified.

Learn more at www.notes.fm.

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Teledyne LeCroy Announces PCI Express® 7.0 Protocol Exerciser

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Industry first standalone PCIe® 7.0 Protocol Exerciser, extends the Summit M616 Protocol Analyzer to deliver a complete validation and debug solution

MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today announced the release of the Summit™ Z74 Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express® (PCIe®) 7.0 technology, designed to accelerate the development, validation, and debug of next-generation PCIe devices and systems. Summit Z74 operates as a standalone protocol exerciser for controlled traffic generation, or pairs with the Summit M616 Protocol Analyzer to create a complete PCIe 7.0 analysis and exerciser solution. Together, the platforms give engineering teams the control and visibility needed to expose interoperability issues earlier, shorten debug cycles, and reduce development risk.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud infrastructure, and advanced storage applications are driving the demand for faster, lower-latency interconnects. To meet that demand, PCIe 7.0 specification doubles the raw data rate of PCIe 6.0 specification from 64.0 GT/s to 128.0 GT/s and delivers up to 512 GB/s of bi-directional bandwidth in a x16 configuration. At these speeds, Pulse Amplitude Modulation 4-level (PAM4) signaling, FLIT-based protocol, and increasingly complex system architectures require validation tools that can generate precise protocol traffic, emulate real-world workloads, reproduce problem conditions, and provide deterministic control over PCIe link behavior throughout the development lifecycle.

The Summit Z74 addresses these challenges with a flexible architecture for PCIe 7.0 technology development. Used independently, it enables engineers to generate controlled protocol traffic, exercise device behavior, and validate responses under targeted conditions. Paired with the Summit M616 Protocol Analyzer, the Summit Z74 becomes part of a comprehensive debug and validation system that combines traffic generation with deep protocol capture, decode, analysis, and debug. This solution enables engineering teams to efficiently isolate, resolve and verify link training behavior, transaction-level issues, protocol errors, LTSSM transitions, interoperability challenges, and compliance-development concerns within an industry-leading and customer familiar Summit workflow.

“The rapid evolution of PCI Express technology to the PCIe 7.0 specification is enabling new levels of performance for AI, storage, and high-performance computing applications,” said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG President and Chairperson. “Protocol test equipment accelerates validation and ecosystem readiness to help engineers address growing system complexity.”

“The Summit Z74 extends our long-standing commitment to the PCIe design and test community,” said Michael Romm, General Manager, Teledyne LeCroy Protocol Solutions Group. “Engineering teams can deploy the industry’s first standalone PCIe 7.0 protocol exerciser or pair it with the Summit M616 to create a complete, familiar environment for traffic generation, protocol visibility, validation, and debug. This flexibility helps customers protect their test investment while confidently advancing next-generation PCIe designs.”

Availability

The Summit Z74 and the Summit M616 are available to PCI Express technology development teams preparing for PCIe 7.0 specification validation programs. Please contact Teledyne LeCroy for additional product information, technical specifications, configuration guidance, and availability details.

For more information about Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express protocol analyzers, exercisers, interposers, and compliance solutions, contact Teledyne LeCroy at +1 (800) 909-7211 or visit https://www.teledynelecroy.com.

About Teledyne LeCroy

Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance “Time-to-Insight”. Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy’s website at teledynelecroy.com.

About PCI-SIG
PCI-SIG is the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines industry standard I/O (input/output) specifications consistent with the needs of its members. Currently, PCI-SIG is comprised of 1,000 industry-leading member companies. To join PCI-SIG, and for a list of the Board of Directors, visit www.pcisig.com.

© 2026 by Teledyne LeCroy. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. PCI-SIG, PCIe and PCI Express are registered trademarks of PCI-SIG. Summit, CATC Trace, and Teledyne LeCroy are trademarks or registered trademarks of Teledyne LeCroy, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Technical contact: Gordon Getty – Senior Director of Product Management 408-273-5673
Customer contact: Teledyne LeCroy PSG Customer Care Center 800-909-7211
Website: https://www.teledynelecroy.com

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InventHelp Inventor Develops New Privacy & Security Product for Electronic Devices (TLS-1389)

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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — “I wanted to create a safe and secure way to use a computer, scroll through your phone, or watch television without compromising privacy or falling victim to cyber predators,” said an inventor, from Lakeland, Fla., “so I invented ONE FACE PRIVACY. My design prevents your privacy from being compromised, which could help solve numerous types of cyber victim issues.”

The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to increase privacy when using an electronic device. It also protects against cyber predators. As a result, it increases privacy, security, and safety. Additionally, it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a unique design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households, owners and users of electronic devices, children, teens, etc.

The original design was submitted to the Tallahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 25-TLS-1389, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.

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Zillow Preview℠ listings are now live on Realtor.com®, offering the same early access on the two most-visited real estate platforms in the country

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SEATTLE and AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zillow® and Realtor.com® today announced that Preview℠ is live on both sites, bringing pre-market homes to buyers across the two most-visited real estate platforms in the country. No special login or brokerage relationship required. The same early access for every buyer, on both platforms starting today.

This marks the realization of a collaboration announced in May, and the largest pre-market syndication effort in U.S. residential real estate. Whether searching on Zillow or Realtor.com®, buyers will now see pre-market listings at the same time — clearly labeled as Preview listings, with no insider track required.

“Today we set a new standard for pre-market transparency on Zillow and Realtor.com®,” said Christopher Roberts, Zillow’s chief product officer. “While others in this industry are moving in the other direction and restricting early listings to private networks, we’re proving that broad, public visibility is better for sellers, better for buyers and better for agents.”

“It takes a shared commitment to bring two platforms to the table, but on this, we agree: an open marketplace serves buyers and sellers better than a closed one,” said Anna Marie Castiglioni, Head of Realtor.com® Next. “Bringing Preview Listings to both platforms means every buyer, on either site, gets access to the same homes at the same time — and every seller gets the benefit of that broad reach.”

The collaboration launches as Zillow Preview has already achieved significant scale. More than 400 brokerage partners — including Keller Williams, RE/MAX, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, HomeServices of America, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, United Real Estate, Engel & Völkers and Side — are enrolled in Zillow Preview, with listing creation continuing to grow.

A more complete search on both platforms
Preview listings are clearly labeled and receive enhanced visibility in search results and email alerts on both Zillow and Realtor.com®.

Once a buyer finds a Zillow Preview or Realtor.com® Preview home, they can:

Save it to stay updated as more details become availableContact the listing agent to get questions answered quicklyPre-book a tour to be one of the first in the door when the home is ready for showingsUse the extra time to connect with a buyer’s agent and get pre-approved for a mortgage — so they’re ready to act the moment the home goes live

Nearly 9 in 10 Americans (88%) say they would be at least somewhat interested in viewing pre-listed homes online if they were buying, according to a Zillow survey conducted by the Harris Poll.

A bigger stage for sellers and their agents
For sellers, the collaboration delivers pre-market exposure at a scale that wasn’t previously possible. Zillow and Realtor.com® together reach three-quarters of major portal visitors, according to Comscore data. Preview listings receive 18% more views, 9% more shares and 7% more saves than comparable listings during the first 14 days on market.

While sellers prepare their homes for sale, agents can build demand across both platforms simultaneously, turning the time before listing day into a marketing runway. Real buyer behavior during the Preview window — views, saves, tour requests — gives sellers and their agents pricing intelligence before a home officially launches on the MLS. Eighty-five percent of soon-to-be sellers say they’d be more likely to hire an agent who can pre-market their home to the broadest online audience.

As part of this collaboration, agents will receive the same benefits for both their Zillow Preview and Realtor.com® Preview listings, available at no cost to sellers or agents participating through an enrolled brokerage.

Participating agents receive three key benefits:

Greater visibility: Preview listings receive elevated placement in search results and saved-home alerts during the Preview period on both Zillow and Realtor.com®, helping more buyers discover the home earlier in the listing process.Free connections based on buyer choice: Consumers have the choice to connect with the listing agent or with a local buyer’s agent, depending on their needs. When a buyer reaches out to the listing agent directly through Zillow or Realtor.com®, those connections are free for the listing agent.Revenue participation: If a qualified Preview connection from either a Zillow Preview or Realtor.com® Preview home results in a closed transaction through a qualified partner agent, the listing agent may receive a share of the revenue earned from that transaction, settled through their brokerage. This fee does not increase consumers’ or agents’ costs. As always, commissions remain negotiable between consumers and the agents representing them.

About Zillow Group: 
Zillow Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most visited real estate app and website in the United States, Zillow connects hundreds of millions of consumers with innovative technology, trusted agents and loan officers, and seamless digital solutions. With industry-leading tools and resources, Zillow supercharges real estate professionals so they can grow their businesses and deliver exceptional client experiences. For renters and housing providers, Zillow offers not only a robust marketplace but a set of end-to-end products and services to streamline applications, leases, payments and more.

Zillow’s ecosystem spans the entire home journey — from dreaming and shopping to renting, buying, selling and financing.

Zillow Group’s affiliates, subsidiaries and brands include Zillow®, Zillow Premier Agent®, Zillow Home Loans®, Zillow Rentals®, Zillow® New Construction, Trulia®, StreetEasy®, Out East®, HotPads®, Follow Up Boss®, ShowingTime® and dotloop®.

All marks herein are owned by MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org). © 2026 MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate.

About Realtor.com®
For over 30 years, Realtor.com® has connected buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights, professional guidance and powerful tools to help them find their perfect home. Recognized as the No. 1 real estate site REALTOR® agents recommend, Realtor.com® delivers consumer connections and a robust suite of marketing tools to support business growth. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc.

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