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Taboola is expanding its empire.The adtech company exclusively told CMO Insider it has made an offer to acquire Dianomi, a fellow adtech firm specializing in the finance space.Similar to Taboola, Dianomi offers an ad network that places sponsored-content widgets across publisher websites.The acquisition, announced Friday, would help Taboola gain relationships…
When Ahmed Mousa wanted to return to the tech firm Deel, he texted CEO Alex Bouaziz a selfie of the two of them with another colleague.”hey! ready and fully committed. when can we recreate this photo?” Mousa wrote to Bouaziz.The cofounder quickly replied, writing in part: “Which team”Roughly 48 hours…
Earlier this month, the AI hacking startup Horizon3 achieved a rare milestone: a $250 million funding round pushed its market valuation above $2 billion, making it a so-called double unicorn.CEO Snehal Antani said he spent nearly two decades acquiring the skills he needed to build the business, which simulates cyberattacks…
Adtech company The Trade Desk is downsizing.In a note late Thursday, The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green informed staff it was laying off 15% of its head count.In the announcement, which was also published on The Trade Desk’s news site, The Current, Green said the aim was to restructure the…
Mykhailo Fedorov, who helped drive rapid innovation in battlefield technology, particularly drones, before being ousted as Ukraine’s defense minister this summer, is launching a defense tech company.The new company will focus on developing defense technologies intended to strengthen Ukraine and support partners, Fedorov said in a release, promising “more details…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Abhinav Bohra, a senior applied scientist at Amazon. He’s in his 30s and lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.For most of my career, everything I built lived and died inside Amazon.I joined Amazon in 2019…
The situation is relatable to anyone who has been in a parent WhatsApp chat: one person says something ridiculous, and everyone else has to react with varying degrees of politeness or directness. Side chats ensue, tensions start to boil.Oreogate is a series of viral Instagram posts from user @ashleighjamz about…
Important milestones are usually celebrated with loved ones, but this year, for my birthday, I decided to take a bucket-list trip to Hong Kong and Japan — on my own. Originally, I’d planned to celebrate at a rooftop bar with friends, but this trip has been on my mind for…
Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade.During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can…
Three executives who sold their company to S4 Capital are suing the agency group helmed by advertising mogul Martin Sorrell, alleging it has withheld millions of dollars and shares owed to them.The former CitrusByte execs allege in the lawsuit that S4 engaged “in a campaign of obfuscation and delay” and…
