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  • Amazon To Buy MGM Studios; Antitrust Pressure Looms

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Power Player Can Amazon get any bigger? Per CNBC, the planned acquisition of MGM Studios for $8.45 billion marks the company’s boldest move yet into the entertainment industry and is expected to turbocharge its streaming ambitions. The deal gives Amazon access to MGM’s huge […]

  • Treasure Data CEO Pankaj Tibrewal

    SoftBank-Owned Treasure Data On The Nascent But Growing Opportunity Of IoT

    This is the 12th in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe and BlueConic. Treasure Data is betting that the internet of things (IoT) is the next frontier for customer data platforms. “CDP as a category exists because there is so much […]

  • Yieldify Picks Up $11.5 Million In Funding To Convert Online Window Shoppers

    Yieldify is trying to solve what CEO and co-founder Jay Radia calls “a trillion-dollar problem” – which is part of why the company has been able to attract such big-name investors. The London-based startup announced an $11.5 million Series A funding round on Thursday led by Google Ventures and SoftBank Capital. At the moment, conversions on […]