When Adobe agreed last September to pay $20 billion for fast-growing web design platform Figma, the intent to remove a competitive threat seemed obvious. (Or not: see this opposing view.) A rumored U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust suit never appeared but the U.K. authorities opened an investigation in May and we now have reports that EU authorities are considering action as well. That’s what happens when you feed them meat
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against Amazon for tricking consumers into joining its Prime program and blocking them from quitting. Prime is a core business-building tool for Amazon, so this could be serious. It’s one more sign of increasingly feisty global tech regulation.
More hate speech is a feature, not a bug, on today’s Twitter. So Adobe, Microsoft, and others can’t be surprised to find their ads next to neo-Nazi propaganda. Do they care? Do their customers care? Would the company’s new CEO have taken the job if she cared? So many questions.
CDP and data solutions provider Zeotap is adding the ID5 ID to its identity graph. The ID5 identifier supports individual-level programmatic ad targeting without relying on third-party cookies, extending the reach of Zeotap ad segments.