Regulators are increasingly hostile to app store owners who require apps to funnel payments through the store owner’s payment system and pay a hefty commission for the privilege.  Apple has received most of the unwanted attention, but Google is in regulators’ sights as well.  Google has responded with a pilot program to allow third-party billing in Android apps.  It just expanded the pilot to include the U.S., European Union, and other regions.

No-code and low-code technologies are often described as enabling business users to do work that would otherwise require support from professional software developers.  But, at least according to this DuploCloud report, the professionals have widely adopted no/low-code for themselves: 71% are already using them and most of the others plan to.  Compliance and security are the biggest benefits.

Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.