In today's ExchangeWire news digest: tech experts appeal for a hiatus on AI development; Meta mull barring political advertising on their platforms in Europe; and Tencent bring a paid subscription option to WeChat. Experts call for pause in AI’s development A group [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Alibaba reveals plans to divide into six separate divisions; Apple launches Apple Pay Later; and Douyin launches Qing Tao to rival Bilibili. Alibaba to spin off business units Chinese tech giant Alibaba has revealed plans to split [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: First Citizens agree to buy SVB; Twitter's value more than halves and the firm's source code is leaked; and the CMA update their provisional findings from their probe into Microsoft's planned purchase of Activision Blizzard. SVB [...]

NumberEight and FourM - Japan’s leading app consultancy and integration house, and a subsidiary of end-to-end commerce enablement company AnyMind Group - have signed a deal to empower Japanese publishers by providing them access to unique new first-party data. By [...]

Following on from last week’s MadTechSketch, Ciaran O’Kane dives a little bit deeper on the “utility publishers” category that is becoming a mainstay of commerce media. Typically a utility publisher is a service not reliant on advertising as the primary revenue [...]

If the ad tech industry was to have a word of the year, then it’s fair to say that ‘privacy’ would feature in at least the top ten since 2016 (if not before). GDPR and subsequent privacy-focused legislation have sent [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Alibaba offers Buy Now Pay Later to European customers; Musk's Twitter is believed to have intentionally broken third-party apps to the site; and Indian unicorn ShareChat culls its workforce against economic headwinds. Alibaba offers BNPL in [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Grab announce they plan to reach profitability by 2024; the Australian government calls on Optus to pay for new IDs for those affected by large-scale hack; and Apple bring NFT trading to the App Store [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: TikTok could be fined up to £27m after investigation finds they may have breached data protection laws; the IAB Australia finds that the importance of attention is being overstated when it comes to understanding a [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: TikTok owner ByteDance sees its valuation drop by a quarter in 12 months; BeReal disregards ads in favour of paid in-app features; and Shopee slashes jobs once again as revenue wilts.   ByteDance value slips to USD$300bn TikTok [...]