Mobile data app provider App Annie has rebranded, changing its name to data.ai as it positions itself as a single centralised source of app analytics across a publisher’s entire tech stack. In an announcement email, the company noted that all of i...

The following article was contributed by Stacey Brandenburg, shareholder, and Marc Zwillinger, founder and managing member at ZwillGen PLLC. Privacy remains a hot issue in 2022, particularly as companies prepare for compliance with various state p...

Google has scrapped plans to introduce its third-party cookie alternative only days after receiving complaints from German publishers that the new product would hurt their businesses. That alternative — called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) ...

Several US states have filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that it deceived consumers by collecting their location data even after users opted-out. The legal actions — which were separately filed by attorneys general in the District of Columb...

Placer.ai has raised $100m to expand its platform. The geolocation data provider will use the funding to build out its user base and bring in more physical and digital datasets — including vehicle traffic, planned construction data, web traffic an...

Hedge funds are citing alternative data as one of their top priorities when investing in front-office technology, according to a new report from the Alternative Investment Management Association. The survey — which collected responses from 162 ind...

Web-scraped data provider YipitData has closed a Series E funding round that allows it to raise up to $475m from Carlyle Group. The new investment values the company at more than $1bn, catapulting Yipit into the ranks of other unicorn data provide...

QuantCube Technology has added four new real-time economic indicators to its platform, which it says can help asset managers and corporate clients to track environmental change. The new indicators include: Urban growth index, which measures devel...

FiscalNote — a data vendor that provides predictive analytics on legislative and regulatory actions — has announced its intention to become a publicly listed company. As part of the deal, FiscalNote will merge with a publicly traded special purpos...

EU regulators have given the green light to S&P Global to move forward with its purchase of IHS Markit. The European Commission announced on Friday that it had granted the two businesses a conditional Phase 1 approval for the US $44bn merger. ...