The United Kingdom’s Competition and Marketing Authority (CMA) has noticed that Google owns the largest demand side platform, ad exchange, and ad server, and wonders whether Google exploits that for competitive advantage.  So far, they’ve discovered the related technology is “known as the ‘ad tech stack’” and “is important because millions of people across the UK use websites that rely on advertising revenue to offer high-quality, free content.”  Impressive.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.