Big Tech is backed into a corner: Facebook has followed Amazon and asked for FTC chair Lina Khan to recuse herself in its antitrust suit—a sign that the companies are scared regulation will actually stick this time around.
Consumers who opt in to Ring’s encryption will be the only ones able to view their video feeds. The move is an improvement on Ring’s checkered privacy and security past but falls short of critics’ demands.
The company acquired a Facebook team of engineers and physicists to boost its satellite internet venture off the ground. The stealthy acquisition is a much-needed injection of resources and talent as Amazon rushes to enter a market quickly being swallowed up by SpaceX.
The insurance comparison marketplace is eyeing a SPAC merger as it diversifies its product suite—yet another insurtech taking this route to enter the public markets.
As advertisers have cut down on how many demand-side platforms (DSPs) they work with, publishers have increased the number of their supply-side platform (SSP) partners. Lauren T. Fisher, executive vice president of business intelligence at research firm Advertiser Perceptions, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the company's latest wave of SSP research, why identity resolution is important, and what to expect now that cookie deprecation in Chrome has been delayed.
China could be ready to launch the digital yuan in early 2022, and India is building a CBDC framework while also warming up to Bitcoin.
A rising Tide gets $100M for overseas moves: The funds will propel the UK-based neobank’s growth abroad, including India—and the size of its business customer base suggests Tide’s race against fellow domestic challenger players Starling and Revolut is heating up.
Going global: YouTube is expanding access to its TikTok clone, Shorts, to more than 100 countries this week as competition from TikTok heats up.
Mediaocean acquires Flashtalking: The advertising workflow service provider’s move to snap up the ad server is part of its effort to expand further into the programmatic space.
JPMorgan ups advisors by over 300: The bank’s client advisor headcount was up by over 300 in Q2 2021 compared to the same period last year. It’s pushing to make financial advice a key feature of branch banking, even as customers flock to digital channels for routine services.
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As brick-and-mortar stores remained shuttered, ecommerce quickly became the channel of choice for many consumers in Latin America. In turn, retailers quickly shifted their attention toward online sales channels to keep pace with consumers’ growing appetite for online shopping.