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Blippar has raised another $54 million to further build out its augmented reality visual search engine.The goal is to create a visual catalog of every object in the world, using … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
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Chinese mobile ad company Mobvista acquired programmatic mobile games and app ad platform NativeX for $25 million in cash Monday. Read the full story by Felicia Greiff
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Opera Mediaworks, the mobile marketing and advertising platform under the umbrella of Opera Software, announced a partnership with Unacast to extend beacon and proximity data to advertisers. Unacast
aggregates offline … Read the full story by Ben Frederick
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Merkle announced Wednesday its seventh acquisition in two years. The company bought U.K.-based Comet to strengthen its place in real-time performance marketing. The company uses CRM and other data to … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
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Google announced the launch of its Hands Free pilot program today, but currently it is only working with select stores in South Bay, including McDonald's, Papa John's and local businesses. … Read the full story by Ben Frederick
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Vying for a bigger piece of the group-messaging marketplace, Slack Technologies is slowly rolling out a conference-calling feature named Calls. It has been in the works since Slack picked up … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley
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Gawker -- a pioneering gossip site which has, over the years, dished out any amount of criticism of other media company's labor practices -- finally got a union of its … Read the full story by Erik Sass
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Every morning when I get to work, I browse the trade headlines online before diving into my inbox. I'll be reading about Mark Zuckerberg's latest speech when, all of a … Read the full story by Greg Pritchard