EU regulations and US court rulings are loosening Google and Apple’s control over app store purchases. One beneficiary is Appcharge, which provides alternative technologies for direct-to-consumer sales by mobile game developers. They’ve grown 14x in the past twelve months and just raised a $58 million Series B, only nine months after a $26 million Series A.
This disallowed NetChoice’s request to block the law.
Founded just last year, Evertune is one of the swarm of companies offering to help brands improve results of AI search. They just raised a $15 million Series A, bringing total funding to $19 million, and announced plans to build “the AI marketing suite of the future” to prepare companies for the day when agents make purchases on behalf of consumers. Most interesting was their explanation of how they optimize AI search: they run over 100,000 AI prompts to understand how each brand appears in AI search results.
It barely feels like news when industry giants add AI features, since that’s what they’re expected to do. But lots of people use their products, so their announcements are probably of higher interest than most. With that in mind, let’s note that Adobe has just announced general availability of agents for audience creation, journey orchestration, experimentation, journey insights, website optimization and agent support.