In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Japan will look into potential antimonopoly breaches by Google; naround 1 in 5 APAC consumers use social media for purchases; and Zhipu AI amasses ¥2.5bn (~£280.8m this year). Google to be investigated in Japan The Japan Fair [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Meta is reportedly developing a new AI feature for Instagram; Microsoft's president meets the UK chancellor "seeking solutions" over the blocked Activision deal; and Japan renews its strategy for domestic production of semiconductor chips. Is Meta [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: major Japanese companies to collaborate on Web3 infrastructure; EU chief Breton denies favouring telcos over Big Tech; and the Canadian government becomes the latest to ban staff from using the TikTok app. Fujitsu, Mitsubishi to collaborate [...]

FirstPartyCapital (FPC), an early stage venture firm that specialises in ad tech, martech, and digital media investments, has signed a deal with Globalive, to help expand its footprint in the Japanese market. The Tokyo based firm will advise FPC’s portfolio [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Twitter refuses to dismiss Egon Durban from its board, defying its shareholders vote; a company filing from SoftBank reveals the company slashed execs' pay after its Vision Fund dropped ¥3.5tn (£21.7bn); and rapid grocery delivery [...]

As part of Digiseg’s goal to help advertisers and publishers get to the cookieless future faster, it has launched cookie and ID free audiences in Japan and South Korea.    With these two countries, Digiseg’s cookieless audience data is now available in six APAC countries: Hong Kong, Singapore, [...]

Leading video advertising enablement platform, Intelligent Video Solutions (iVS) today (22 September) announced its latest round of fundraising. The Pre-Series B round, led by Tin Men Capital as well as notable investors such as Vulpes, Kickstart Ventures and SG Innovate, [...]

Hivestack, the global ad tech leader in programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) advertising, today announced the appointment of Ichiro Jinnai as president, Hivestack Japan. Jinnai will be responsible for driving the regional strategy, direction and expansion of the Hivestack [...]

Novatiq, the only privacy-first identity solution to leverage first-party network operator intelligence, has today announced a significant commercial partnership with Supership Holdings. Supership is Japan’s leader in data-driven digital advertising. The deal will see the UK start-up and the Japanese digital [...]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, today announced the appointment of Takeshi Yamaguchi as country manager, Japan to accelerate and lead the company’s growth locally.  Takeshi Yamaguchi joined IAS in 2015 to help expand its operations [...]