Yahoo joined the ranks of companies supporting custom audience targeting with first-party data for search advertising, offering the service through Yahoo Gemini. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Google plans to shine a light on local news articles in Google News by creating technology that online publishers can use when the content becomes part of national news stories. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Software provider Opera announced that it is launching virtual private network (VPN) for iOS products (an Android is in development)-only a few weeks after making the same available for desktop … Read the full story by Ben Frederick

Ad-blocking tool Adblock Plus announced it has surpassed 100 million active installations. (It's calling them users, but counts downloads on multiple devices as different users.) The company said it had … Read the full story by Ben Frederick

Marketing software provider Marketo has gained new predictive scoring and content marketing features, thanks to two new integrations announced Monday. Read the full story by Jess Nelson

Marketing Automation provider Act-On Software announced the upcoming release of a new account-based marketing solution that automates ABM orchestration for B2B marketers. Read the full story by Jess Nelson