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Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round

TechCrunch

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising was this black box. Where will our data go when cookies disappear?

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Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising

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million in growth capital for its fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics platform that monitors connected television and mobile advertising. Western Technology Investment and Javelin Venture Partners led the latest funding round, which brings Pixalate’s total funding to $22.7 Digital advertising is big business.

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Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising

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Previously, he was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team and held various product leadership roles building ad tech and enterprise privacy technologies. Analyze your budget with quality versus reach in mind — fraudsters continue to take advantage of advertisers’ historic obsession with reach.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. where it’ll face stiffer competition — which the co-founders hope Flow will edge out with its technology and attention to design — but a more extensive market base.

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Marketing and advertising file sharing data solutions from Thorn Technologies

Thorn Tech

Marketing and advertising file sharing data solutions Good Apple is not your typical marketing and advertising agency. They go beyond execution, taking on the responsibility of guiding clients through every step, from strategy development to […]

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Should tech bootcamps keep using job placement metrics in their advertising?

TechCrunch

Coding bootcamp Nucamp will no longer publish job placement metrics in its advertising materials, a move that CEO Ludovic Fourrage is making to rebuild student trust in the industry. He believed that consumers didn’t question Lambda’s high price tag because of the advertised and promised outcome of job placement.

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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

Customer experience and security But as in most industries, customer expectations and security challenges continue to grow along with technological advances. Banks continue investing in technologies that make the customer experience seamless, including mobile apps and peer-to-peer payments.