“Look on the bright side,” sings Stephen Sondheim’s Charles J. Guiteau as he waits to be hanged. In that spirit, financial advisory firm Ciesco reports that 2022 was a “buoyant year for M&A activity”, with a 20% increase in deal volume, including a 12% rise for martech. Announced deal value was down by half but we won’t dwell on that.
The suit, filed on behalf of a group of Illinois residents, says a person’s facial features are unique, so collecting and using them without consent is in violation of BIPA rules.
“Get off your backside, shine those shoes,” counsels the ever-optimistic Guiteau. Media agency GroupM is taking that advice to heart in the battle against global warming, with an update to its advertising carbon impact calculator. The new version offers channel-level measurements and uses supply chain emissions data from Scope3.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.