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Real-Time Payments Reach a Turning Point in North America
Real-time payments in North America are moving decisively from expansion to execution. Instant payment systems across the United States, Canada and Mexico are scaling, modernizing and broadening their...

Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence
A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust wh...

Munich’s Telura exits stealth with €4M to make deep geothermal economically viable
Telura has come out of stealth with €4 million and a bold claim: it can make deep geothermal economically viable almost anywhere on Earth. The problem with geothermal energy has never been the heat....

Alphabet handed Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
The new deal ties Google’s CEO to the future of its most ambitious bets, and signals that the board has finally decided they’re bets worth making. Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015 and Alpha...

How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility
If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform ru...

Crypto Analyst Says Historically Accurate Model Shows Worst of Bitcoin (BTC) Correction Now Over
A widely followed crypto analyst says that the most severe part of Bitcoin’s (BTC) correction is now over. Dave the Wave tells his 158,000 followers on X that Bitcoin has entered the “buy zone” ...

Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at DMBS Spring 2026: AI from the top to the bottom of agencies
Another Media Buying Summit is in the books, having just wrapped last Wednesday in Nashville. And while some terrific speakers took the stage, once again it’s the Town Halls that reveal some of the ...

Meta’s measurement and attribution updates are welcomed, but not ground-breaking, ad execs say
Meta has made changes to its measurement and attribution. Ad buyers say: it’s about time. Last week, Meta announced that it was redefining click-through attribution to enable more consistency wit...

Long-form creators eye taking over TVs – and chasing bigger brand budgets
Long-form creator shows are landing on TVs, and Spotter, a creator growth platform that provides services and capital to facilitate growth and YouTube revenue share, wants brands to follow — but ad ...

‘Brand safety is moving from fear to curiosity’: Zefr’s Raddon on content-level accreditation – and what it exposes about the industry
For years, brand safety was a fear business. The pitch was simple: something terrible could appear next to your ad, and without the right protection, your brand would pay the price. It worked, because...

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