News in brief: Walmart’s Ad Business Sees 28% Growth; Apple Starts Selling News Ads; X Partners with PubMatic  Walmart’s Ad Business Sees 28% Growth Walmart has reported a strong revenue growth for Q3, increasing 5.5% to a total of USD$169.6bn (£134bn). The [...]

News in brief: Viant Technology acquires IRIS.TV, The Guardian to halt X content posting, and Alliant sold to private equity. Viant Acquires IRIS.TV California-based programmatic advertising platform Viant Technology has announced the acquisition of CTV content data platform IRIS.TV for an undisclosed [...]

Today’s news: Epic Games Aims Antitrust Accusations at Google and Samsung; YouTube Content Down over Legal Dispute; Brazil Imposes New Fine for X  The ad tech ecosystem is brimming with legal news. Kicking off the week, Epic Games threw accusations at [...]

Today’s news: X Launches CTV App; Snapchat Adds New Ad Placements; Amazon’s AI Shopping Assistant Arrives to UK  In a post on Tuesday, X announced that a beta version of its CTV app is now available on several app stores. The [...]

On today’s news digest: X Ad Revenue Down 24%; Judge Blocks Disney, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery Planned Bundle on Antitrust Grounds; Amazon Considers Creating Separate App for Amazon Pay in India  It won’t come as a shock to anyone that [...]

This week on The Stack: Google Named a Monopoly; X Against Advertisers; TikTok Lite Terminated in EU; Today's MadTech Daily Podcast This week was shaped by more Google-related breaking news – the tech titan lost its recent antitrust case with [...]

On today’s news digest: US Senate Passes TikTok Bill; X to Venture Into CTV; UK Ad Spend Increased 6.1% in 2023  Finally, the US Senate has passed the bill which will ban TikTok if its China-based parent company, ByteDance, does not [...]

On today’s news digest: Disney+ to Introduce Always-On Channels; TikTok’s New Rewards App Under Scrutiny; X to Comply With Brazil Supreme Court Rulings  In a move which makes us feel like we are rewinding to the past, Disney is reportedly planning [...]

This week on The Stack: New AI Models on the Horizon; Google Cloud Announces Updates and Partnership with WPP; Elon Musk Faces Supreme Court Scrutiny  The realm of big tech has seen many announcements this week. In the US, lawmakers are [...]

On today’s news digest: Elon Musk Faces Brazil Supreme Court Inquiry; US Lawmakers Strike Deal on Data Privacy; Retail Sales Soar in Singapore Elon Musk is under scrutiny in Brazil as a Supreme Court judge, Justice Alexandre Moraes, opens an inquiry [...]