Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash (Alison Weissbrot/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/publicis-to-acquire-liveramp-for-22-billion/
Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash (Alison Weissbrot/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/publicis-to-acquire-liveramp-for-22-billion/
I had the opportunity to write a chapter for the handbook *The Global Business of Education*, edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, and S. Karin Amos.
“People Farming in Academia” analyzes how the increasing datafication of academia is increasingly modeling it after the platform economy as we know it - with all the accompanying phenomena: vendor lock-in, precarity, ghost work, geopolitical interference, and an increasingly questionable relationship with factual accur…
American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor in an all-cash deal worth $700M; TRIP jumps 6% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/american-express-buy…
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/salesforce-ai-customer-service-fin-acquistion.html
OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/openai-to-acquire-cloud-pl…
Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/walmart-acquire-vibe-advertising-1236788…
Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/walmart-acquire-vibe-advertising-1236788…
Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 (PYMNTS.com)
https://www.pymnts.com/acquisitions/2026/adyen-plans-talon-one-buy-to-…