Back to the drawing board for Meta: A “consent or pay” play is what Meta wants to do with users in the European Union. However, guidance from an EU data protection organization suggests otherwise. This sends Meta back to redo its business model to comply.Read More
Speaking of this new guidance: Natasha Lomas takes us inside the European Data Protection Board’s opinion and what it will mean for Meta and other adtech giants.Read More
It pays to be Premium: LinkedIn is working on a new LinkedIn Premium Company Page subscription, which will include AI to write content and new tools to grow follower counts, among other features to raise the profiles of the company using them. This feature “underscores how Microsoft-owned LinkedIn continues to diversify its business model while also trying to make itself more useful overall.” Read More
Maximum severity: That was the rating that Palo Alto Networks gave to an existing zero-day vulnerability because “the vulnerability allows hackers to gain complete control of an affected firewall over the internet without authentication.” Read More
Mercury heats up the consumer banking world: The business banking startup is taking a nod from customers to launch a consumer product. This is an interesting time for Mercury, as it is “the target of federal scrutiny around its practice of allowing foreign companies to open accounts through one of its partners, Choice Bank.” Read More
Tesla does some advertising: The electric vehicle maker divulged how much it spent to advertise on X. Read More
Inside LemFi’s play to be a fintech to the Global South diaspora: Six months after being shut down by Ghana regulators, LemFi is back in business in the country and is gearing up for a big expansion into Asia. Read More
StrictlyVC event:You can expect a tech star–studded lineup, including Lina Khan and Steve Case, at the Strictly VC event taking place June 11 in Washington, D.C. Read More
