In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Elon Musk offers to complete his buyout of Twitter; Google settles a 2-year location-tracking lawsuit with Arizona; and ITV prepares to launch its new streaming service to coincide with the 2022 Fifa World Cup.   Musk offers [...]

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 [...]

This week: Netflix announces a partnership with Ubisoft to reinvigorate its gaming division, Google faces fresh legal action in the UK and EU... Anticompetitive behaviour has emerged as a key theme in ad tech this week. While Netflix announced a new [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google faces a €25bn (£21.6bn) lawsuit in the UK and EU for anti-competitive behaviour; a former Coinbase employee and his brother face wire fraud charges in the US' first cryptocurrency insider trading case; and Bob [...]

In this week's MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane illustrates Google Chrome's addressability issue, and discusses why it's a major problem for the industry. Last week Google announced it was pushing its timeline for deprecating third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.  The cookie [...]

Ad tech’s worst-kept secret was finally confirmed last week; Google’s deprecation of the third-party cookie has been postponed. Again. Google was originally planning to get rid of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser by 2022, but after an initial delay to [...]

In our latest MadTech Sketch, Ciarán O’Kane imagines how the Google ad tech business could look if it is broken up due to impending regulation. Ever since the WSJ broke the story about Google potentially hiving off its ad tech business [...]

This week: the CMA approves a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, Alibaba shutters its online retailer Tmall... It's been a week of real highs and lows across the ad tech sector. In the UK, the Competition and Markets [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google sets the deprecation of third-party cookies back to 2024; Alibaba aims for primary listing in Hong Kong; and Bristol-based metaverse start-up Condense Reality raises £3.7m.   Google holds off on blocking third-party cookies to test APIs Tech [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: DiDi Global receive an almost £1bn fine over their data practices; Meta reportedly reallocate resources from news to building a creator economy; and Google announce a two-week hiring freeze.   DiDi Global fined nearly £1bn by CAC Ride-hailing [...]