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Penske Media sues Google for allegedly monopolizing the digital ad market and depriving publishers of billions in revenue, following a 2025 US court ruling (Josh Dickey/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-polic…

Penske Media Sues Google Over Accusation of Digital Ad Market Manipulation
Penske Media Corp., the publisher of major entertainment and culture brands including Rolling Stone, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Monday, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the digital advertising market and depriving publishers of billions of dollars in revenue.

Marktforschung: YouTube löst Disney als weltgrößten Medienkonzern ab
YouTube stößt Disney von Platz Eins der größten Medienkonzerne. Ein großer Teil ihrer Umsätze kommt dabei 2025 von Werbung.
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IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/11/moto…

Motorola holds 50% of the US foldable market ahead of Razr Fold launch, IDC says
In addition to another clamshell entry in its ongoing Razr series, Motorola is teeing up for an expansion into book-style...

Wall Street decries the government putting its thumb on the scale
— except when the thumb belongs to Trump
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-attacks-free-markets-wall-street-1235498727/<…

Wall Street Is Dancing While Trump Assaults Free Markets. It Won’t End Well
Donald Trump has been attacking free markets, including by going after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. It won't end well.

Prozessoren: AMD knöpft Intel an allen Fronten Marktanteile ab
Das Jahresende 2025 hätte für AMD kaum besser laufen können. Alle Einheiten fuhren Rekorde ein. Bei x86-Servern wächst der Umsatzanteil auf über 41 Prozent.

Ever, which says it is the first "AI-native, full-stack" retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/eclipse-backs-all-ev-marketplace-eve…

Exclusive: Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round | TechCrunch
The San Francisco-based startup says its AI-first approach has allowed it to scale faster.

Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-ai-content-marketpla…

Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project. Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright,
a former fracking executive,
was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets
after he posted a striking claim on social media:
The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing.”
The post on X was deleted minutes later,
after “oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years,” according to the Wall StreetJournal.
The White House pres…

Trump Energy Chief Accused of Manipulating Oil Markets With Deleted Post About Strait of Hormuz | Common Dreams
"The fusion of war-making and market manipulation by top Trump officials isn't entirely without precedent," said one observer, "but the speed and brazenness does seem new."

Brandlight, which develops tools that help brands monitor how AI models perceive them, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/02/11/marketing-tech…

Exclusive: Marketing tech startup Brandlight raises $30M
Search rankings are so last season.

AppLovin reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $1.66B, vs. $1.61B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue and adjusted EBITDA above estimates; APP drops 6% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/applovin-q4-earnings-software-adtech-ai/

AppLovin delivers top- and bottom-line beats in Q4 with Q1 guidance ahead of estimates
The ad tech company just released Q4 results.