Several of the big “gatekeepers” of the internet have been under investigation for possible breaches of the E.U.’s Digital Markets Act, but Apple wins the prize for being fined first. The fine relates to anti-competitive activity around the Apple App Store. Bloomberg reports that the decision is still being drafted, but the fine could be up to 10% of global annual turnover (yes, tens of billions of dollars).
Unlike the Biden administration in the U.S., the Canadian government is not threatening Canadians’ access to the TikTok app (or creators’ ability to post content). What it is doing is shutting down TikTok Technology Canada, Inc., the local TikTok business. It cited national security risks related to TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance.
After initial (apparent) enthusiasm about getting into Google Privacy Sandbox and testing its various components, adtech seems to have cooled on the whole thing according to research by Sincera. The reason is obvious: Google’s pivot on third-party cookies. The Topics API, perhaps the most widely discussed component, has seen adoption relatively flat July through September, after (slightly) more enthusiasm February through April.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.