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• Elon Musk Becomes Twitter's Largest Stakeholder; UK Government Outlines Bid to Become 'Global Hub' for Crypto

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  In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: billionaire Elon Musk has increased his shares in Twitter to become the platform's largest stakeholder; the UK government has revealed plans to become a 'global hub' for the crypto industry; and Barcelona-based start-up Amenitiz has raised USD $30m (£22.8m) [...]

• US Officials Probe Activision Blizzard’s Brunch; Amazon Sellers Report an “Unfair” Marketplace

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  In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Officials at the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are probing a meeting between Activision Blizzard’s CEO Bobby Kotick and Alexander von Furstenberg; a report conducted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance [...]

• Digital Markets Act Proposed to Tame Big Tech; Yandex Spark Concerns over Data sent to Russia

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  In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in media, marketing, and commerce from around the globe. In this edition: European lawmakers propose the Digital Markets Act to tackle antitrust behaviour in Big Tech; Russia's search engine, Yandex, [...]

• Thomson Reuters' Osita Osadebe on The Digital Markets Act; Apple; and Buzzfeed News

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  On this week’s episode of TheMadTech Podcast, Reuters’ Programmatic Lead Osita Osadebe joins ExchangeWire’s Anne-Marie Sheedy and Mat Broughton to discuss the potential impact of the EU’s DMA legislation. They also get to the core of Apple’s latest privacy measures, [...]

• Meta "Orchestrate" Campaign Against TikTok; Russian Hackers Set Their Eyes on NATO

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  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Meta have hired an agency to allegedly sabotage rival TikTok according to The Washington Post; Russian government-backed hackers attempt to breach networks of NATO; and SoftBank's founder Masayoshi Son warns executives to slow down future investments.   Meta hire [...]

• US Lawmakers Propose New Bill to Create Digital Dollar; Alibaba Leads $60m Investment Round into Nreal

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  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: lawmakers in the US propose the Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware Act to create a digital dollar; Alibaba leads a USD $60m investment round into AR company Nreal; and Ronin Network loses over USD $615m in a major [...]

• Customisable AI in the Changing Landscape: Q&A with Scibids

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  Against the backdrop of identifier deprecation and further privacy-focused legislative efforts, Julien Hirth, co-founder and general manager at Scibids, discusses how marketer KPIs are set to evolve and how customisable AI solutions can help brands mitigate the changing landscape in [...]

• Russia's Yandex Sparks Data Privacy Concerns; Digital Markets Act Could Jeopardise WhatsApp Encryption

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  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: "Russia's Google", Yandex, creates concerns over data security; concerns are raised that the Digital Markets Act could pose a security risk to WhatsApp users; and esports start-up Ampverse raises USD $12m in a Series A funding round.   Russia’s [...]

• European Regulators to Tame Big Tech with Digital Markets Act; SoftBank Finalise Loans up to USD $10bn Before Arm IPO

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  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: European lawmakers introduce the Digital Markets Act to tackle antitrust behaviour in Big Tech; SoftBank finalise loans of up to USD $10bn ahead of Arm IPO; and Australian start-up Zepto raise AUD $25m in Series A [...]

• The Programmatic Trader Role Should Be Made Redundant; Time to Embrace Automation.

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  In this exclusive piece for ExchangeWire, Wayne Blodwell (pictured), founder and CEO, TPA Digital, reflects on an article written for this very publication nearly a decade ago, which has always stuck with him all these years later, and asserts that [...]