Publicis acquires Australia-based CitrusAd
Global advertising company Publicis Groupe is on the acquisition trail, picking up Australian-based software as a service platform CitrusAd which helps retailers sell digital advertising to brands.
Global advertising company Publicis Groupe is on the acquisition trail, picking up Australian-based software as a service platform CitrusAd which helps retailers sell digital advertising to brands.
Alibaba and Tencent are looking at how they can integrate their walled gardens to ensure consumers can use services from both platforms at the same time. This comes as China continues its push to rein in domestic big tech. The integration could see Tencent’s super app WeChat payment function made available on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall marketplace, while Alibaba could host e-commerce listings on WeChat’s mini programs.
As the amount of digital data in the world continues to grow exponentially, extracting meaning from it is becoming an increasingly challenging task, says Peter O’Connor, Vice President – Sales, Asia Pacific, Snowflake.
Preliminary findings by the European Commission state that Apple and Google are in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Among the findings, Google Search is accused of prioritizing Google’s own products and services in results; Apple is instructed to improve interoperability between iOS and third-party devices. The companies now have an opportunity to respond.