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Nielsen yesterday announced that it has agreed to be acquired by a private equity consortium led by Elliott Investment Management and Brookfield Business Partners, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $16 billion.

Japan’s Amended APPI will come into force on April 1, legislation that force companies to require companies to obtain consent from users for their personal-related information (PRI), when this data is shared with third parties who will likely associate that data with ‘Personal Information’.

Optimizely today announced Gartner has positioned the company as a Leader in its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Content Marketing Platforms. Optimizely says this is the fifth consecutive year that it has been positioned highest in the Leaders Quadrant.

Microsoft Advertising today announced a major update to the reporting dashboard. The new reports work 60% faster.

PubMatic today announced it has plans to double engineering headcount over the next 12-18 months, as it opens a new engineering hub in Pune, India.

Google this month announced it will enforce European user consent policy on advertiser side, starting on May 11.

TripleLift today announced the acquisition of 1plusX, a DMP headquartered in Switzerland used by publishers like Axel Springer, Fox, Hearst and Le Figaro.

Google last week announced that all standard Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2023. Google introduced the next generation of Google Analytics - GA4 - in 2020.