Other Google news is less positive. The company has not-very-subtly registered its opposition to a Canadian law requiring that it pay news outlets for using their materials by running a “test” that blocks some users’ access to Canadian news sites. Meta tried something similar in Australia last year with predictably poor results.

Doctors and nurses are the world’s most trusted professionals.  Business leaders are among the least.  So Amazon’s intent to transform U.S. health care with its One Medical acquisition poses an interesting challenge.  They just completed the deal, following a wait for anti-trust approval.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.