Alphabet Brings In $64.62B In Quarterly Ad Revenue

“We delivered revenues of $85 billion, up 14% year-on-year driven by Search as well as Cloud, which for the first time exceeded $10 billion in quarterly revenues and $1 billion in operating profit,”
said Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer at Alphabet.

Lawmaker Seeks Probe Of X Over @KamalaHQ Throttling

Rep. Jerry Nadler is calling for an investigation into reports that X prevented some users from following Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign account, @KamalaHQ.

Cannes Lions Operator Ascential Weighing $1.5B Bid

Ascential plc, which also is in the process of selling agency tech startup Hudson MX, says its board is “minded” to accept the $1.5 billion offer from British publisher Informa plc.

Meta Automatically Suggests Offers In Ads

Meta is introducing a new hands-off way for marketers to include all available offers listed on their site into their Meta ad campaigns across Facebook and Instagram.

What Does Google’s Plan To Keep Cookies Mean For Its Relationship With Regulators?

Google appears to have thrown regulators for a loop with its surprise announcement on Monday that it no longer plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it will delay publication of its planned quarterly report on the Chrome Privacy Sandbox as it evaluates the situation. The next […]

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MetaVs New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate over the dangers of releasing AI without guardrails.

Making Everything Shoppable, Everywhere, Even Jennifer Aniston’s Sweater

That’s what Kinesso Commerce says its new “ShopNow” creative units will enable over time, beginning with digital video across the open web, social media, etc.