In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: ad giant S4 Capital have acquired marketing firm Destined; high demand for memory chips send Samsung’s profits up; and Japanese trainer re-seller SODA raise USD $56.4m in a series C funding round.   S4 Capital acquire Destined S4 [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in media, marketing, and commerce, from around the globe. In this edition: Indian digital payments leader Paytm plan to go public; China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issue a [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Apple announce &#822Private Relay”, a feature that will obstruct fingerprinting by preventing advertisers from accessing consumers’ IP addresses; Microsoft will shut down Internet Explorer in mid-June 2022; and Snap ramp-up efforts to make Snapchat an [...]

In this exclusive interview, ExchangeWire speaks to Simon Halstead, Vice President Exchange and Supply International, Verizon Media, to discuss how machine learning can be applied to contextual solutions to provide reach and scale in cookieless environments. What are the key opportunities [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Hamburg’s data commissioner fights to block WhatsApp’s impending privacy update over concerns over how Facebook will collect and use data from the platform; Applovin see their share value drop by almost 20% after going public [...]

Rapid advances in technology mean we are about to undergo a sonic renaissance, with sound and audio tech set to be a much more integral part of our everyday lives. In this exclusive piece for ExchangeWire, Phil Rowley (pictured below), [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Spotify acquires podcast platform Megaphone for USD $235m; WPP merges agencies AKQA and Grey into AKQA Group; and NBCU partners with PayPal to enhance its shoppable TV offering.   Spotify buys Megaphone for $235m Streaming platform heavyweight Spotify [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: China denounces the US TikTok deal as &#822extortion”; Facebook warns it may have to leave the EU if it enforces a ban on data transfers to the US; and the UK sees its first tech [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Samsung wins a multi-billon dollar bid to provide new technology to Verizon; Italy’s competitions authority launches a set of investigations into Google, Apple, and Dropbox over allegations of unfair practices around their cloud services; and [...]

Few industries remain untouched by COVID-19, but travel has been hit particularly hard by the global pandemic. Now, as the world begins to re-emerge from lockdown, it’s time for the travel sector to get back in action and look for [...]