Meta is on track to dethrone Google as the world’s largest digital advertising business by the end of 2026, according to Emarketer. The market research firm projects Meta’s global net ad revenues will reach $243.46 billion this year, edging past Google’s projected $239.54 billion. It would be the first time in the history of digital advertising […]
The five-year commitment is 2.4x larger than Snowflake’s 2023 AWS deal and lands as shares jump 38% on a Q1 earnings beat. The Graviton component is the part that matters strategically. Snowflake has signed a five-year, $6bn commitment to Amazon Web Services in what both companies are framing as the largest expansion of their 11-year […]
A new report on the French tech ecosystem by Alexandre Dewez, a partner at venture firm 20VC, paints a picture of a startup scene that is growing more dependent on a handful of AI companies while the rest of the market stalls. French startups raised €6.7 billion across 411 funding rounds in 2025, a 5% decline in […]
Jay Shetty, the former Hindu monk turned self-help podcaster, has signed a deal to bring the video version of his show On Purpose exclusively to Spotify and Netflix. The arrangement is worth as much as $100 million over multiple years, according to people familiar with the deal cited by Bloomberg. That figure puts Shetty in […]
Meta is selling subscriptions to its AI chatbot for the first time, introducing two paid tiers that put it in direct competition with OpenAI and Google for consumer AI revenue. Meta One Plus costs $7.99 per month and Meta One Premium costs $19.99 per month. Both tiers give users expanded access to image generation, video […]
Zendesk has appointed Tifenn Dano Kwan as its new chief marketing officer, bringing in a veteran enterprise SaaS marketer as the company accelerates its pivot toward AI-powered customer service. Dano Kwan replaces Kelly Waldher, who joined the company from Google in 2023. The appointment comes at a defining moment for Zendesk. The company has spent […]
Amazon Web Services has launched a product that lets retailers build their own AI-powered shopping assistants using the same technology that powers Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping. The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages architecture guidance, starter code, and hands-on support from AWS’s Generative AI Innovation Center into a solution that the company says can be deployed in […]
Vincent Bolloré has formally turned down Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square offer for Universal Music Group, ending the largest take-private attempt in music-industry history. Vincent Bolloré has formally rejected Bill Ackman’s $64bn offer for Universal Music Group, according to a Reuters report on Wednesday, ending Pershing Square’s seven-week campaign to take the world’s largest recorded-music company […]
Samsung’s 10.5%-of-profit bonus formula is only the second written profit-share agreement at a major Korean firm. Kakao’s union is already asking for more. Samsung Electronics’ unionised workforce voted in favour of the government-mediated pay agreement on Wednesday, formally closing the deal that narrowly survived an injunction filing from a smaller non-chip union on Tuesday. The vote […]
Timothy Arcuri lifted his price target to $1,625 from $535 on the back of long-term HBM supply agreements that, in his read, compress the boom-bust memory cycle into something closer to a structural duopoly. Micron Technology shares rose as much as 19% on Tuesday after UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri more than tripled his price target […]
