Apple loses App Store and iOS gatekeeper appeal at EU court
Judges dismissed all three Apple cases and confirmed iMessage counts as a regulated messaging service, leaving one narrow appeal route to the Court of Justice.
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DMA gains Firefox 6 million EU users but leaves Google 90% dominant
A University of Antwerp analysis finds Bing, Edge and Mozilla, not EU rivals, stand to gain most from contestability, questioning whether sovereignty follows.
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Banking ads lose $295K yearly to fraud, Lunio finds
Google Search itself carries banking's highest Google-channel fraud rate at 5.51 percent, Lunio finds, while LinkedIn clicks there run over a third invalid.
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Criteo takeover bid reshapes an adtech industry already in flux
A 50 percent premium bid for Criteo lands alongside a Google Ads bidding change, an FTC ruling on AI bias and new ad verification data reshaping July 2026.
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DoubleVerify cuts fraud rate 24% but out-of-geo ads jump 12%
Brand suitability violations declined 9 percent while telecom scored lowest for ad attention at 90. EMEA led all four regions with an Attention Index of 110.
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FTC fines Amazon 2.25 million for blocking identity theft records
Victims of identity theft faced impossible verification demands for years. The 2.25 million penalty sets a Section 609(e) record, raising stakes for retailers.
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HubSpot kills Contact Discovery terms after customer backlash
Enrichment terms were reverted after only 4 days once customers challenged HubSpot's transparency around CRM data sharing; a redesigned opt-in has no set date.
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Meta launches Developer Tools MCP, cutting dashboard logins to zero
The beta server exposes 10 tools spanning App Review, compliance status, and webhook data, though write access remains limited to a single function for now.
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Azerion's GameDistribution gains 15 million users via gutefrage.net deal
Spiele.gutefrage.net went live June 30, GameDistribution's second white label portal of 2026, raising the question of how many publishers follow next in Europe.
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Ad-Shield co-CEO: 60-80% of ad-blocked traffic is invisible to sites
Over 50% of blocked traffic comes from network settings, not user choice, Ad-Shield's Dustin Cha says, leaving publishers to recover 10-30% of hidden audience.
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NIQ gains YiMian brand and 100 clients in Flywheel Asia deal
NIQ closed the deal this week, absorbing Flywheel's YiMian platform and its 100-plus clients across China and Southeast Asia, extending digital shelf data reach.
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Handwrytten cards now fire automatically from HubSpot deals
Cards can trigger from any HubSpot deal, ticket, or contact record at no extra fee, with each note logged automatically to the CRM timeline as volume scales.
