Anthony Pompliano claims to have been fired after less than a month as Snapchat's head of growth, because he refused to go along with the alleged scheme of inflating figures. Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley

Two agency holding companies -- Dentsu and WPP Group -- were the most active in mergers/acquisitions among media/communications/technology companies in 2016. Both companies made 70 transactions. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

The cloud services market grew 25% to rake in nearly $150 billion in annual revenue, according to newly released data from Synergy Research Group. Read the full story by Jess Nelson

AOL announced on Thursday at CES the launch of BrandBuilder, a creative ad framework powered by AOL data and platforms. The Brandbuilder framework supports experiences across display, video and mobile … Read the full story by Philip Rosenstein

The layoffs essentially spell the end of Medium's branded content business, Promoted Stories, which was intended to generate ad revenues by helping big advertising clients create engaging multimedia content on … Read the full story by Erik Sass

Google sent another warning to publishers, advertisers and developers this week that it would stop development of Flash in the Interactive Media Ads software development kits. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan