Singtel’s Amobee division announced today it is acquiring Turn for $310 million.

Venture funding for marketing technology nearly doubled from $7.96 billion in 2015 to $14.05 billion in 2016, according to the Investscape 2016 from MarTech Advisor. The largest deal was $2.5 billion invested by Koch Brothers in Infor; that deal single-handedly made the platform/suite category that largest fund recipient for the year. Other top-funded categories were internet services, mobile apps, and customer experience. Lots of company-by-company details here if you’re interested.

Adobe has announced a new solution within its GenStudio suite, GenStudio for Performance Marketing. This self-service application is aimed at accelerating the creation of display and social ads, emails and banners using approved, on-brand content. The solution will leverage Adobe Firefly as well as third-party LLMs.