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Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Split Decision here.The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, charged Google's digital ad business with antitrust violations on Wednesday, CNBC reports.After a nearly two-year investigation, the commission found that Google's end-to-end ad platform violates EU antitrust law.

Ads-for-good platformGood-Loop today (June 14th, 2023) announces its partnership with adaptive streaming tech platform,SeenThis, to minimise the carbon footprint of its purpose-powered ad units.The collaboration will see the B Corp-certified company gain access to SeenThis' streaming technology across its display and video offerings, with the ability to optimise its creatives and delivery to eliminate data waste and minimise emissions.

Valiuz, which holds the data assets of 20 retailers, including 15 of them with a global presence (Décathlon, Leroy Merlin, Kiabi, Auchan...), has chosen Equativ, the leading independent programmatic advertising platform, as its exclusive technological partner to operate its audience extension activity in programmatic deals which include the activation of first-party data on media other than the retailer's website, through programmatic campaigns.

The Pfizer logo is displayed on the exterior of a former Pfizer factory, on May 4, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.Mark Lennihan/AP Pfizer is facing a shortage of penicillin due to increased demand and more diagnoses of syphilis, the company said in a letter to its customers this week.The company said there is an "impending stock out situation" for select Bicillin L-A and Bicillin C-R prefilled syringes, Pfizer's brand name of injectable penicillin.

As digital transformation continues to revolutionize the way you do business, modernizing your procurement system needs to be a key strategy to support your growth and the value you bring your customers.Upgrading from the legacy procurement technology and processes you may still be using to cloud-based digital purchasing can make buying for your business every bit as easy as your personal online shopping, offering a similarly intuitive user experience (UX).

Slashing the cost of fruit and vegetables to ease the cost of living crisis should be on the table at Downing Street's food summit next week, experts have warned.The prime minister is facing calls to urge supermarkets to half what they charge amid stubbornly high inflation rates.Retailers have privately told ministers that food prices have peaked and will start to fall significantly in the coming months.

Just as it did for nearly every facet of the global economy, the pandemic plunged Canada's new car market into upheaval, throwing supply and demand completely out of whack.Factory shutdowns due to COVID-19 made for widespread shortages of parts, filtering down to a historic lack of finished vehicles for sale on dealer lots.

SANTA CRUZ - Well known for its local specials and astonishing ocean views, Firefish Grill has been a staple on the Santa Cruz Wharf for decades albeit under a few different names and owners, but retained by the same family since 1980."Me and my dad got in an argument one day in the kitchen," said Firefish Grill owner Mark Gilbert.

T ransport for London's chief has been re-appointed to his job on a permanent basis - and has also seen his salary rise by some 40,000.Andy Lord had been serving as TfL's interim commissioner since October 2022, but on Wednesday the organisation's board said he had been given the role permanently, in a process involving more than 200 candidates.

Keir Starmer has promised to use public procurement to help create unionised jobs in the UK, after being pressed by a striking GMB member from Amazon's Coventry warehouse.Speaking at the GMB's annual congress in Brighton, the Labour leader was warmly applauded when he backed calls for Amazon to recognise the union in Coventry, calling it a fantastic campaign.

When New York State began laying the groundwork for its recreational cannabis industry last year, officials cast atoning for the harm done by the war on drugs as a cornerstone of the ambitious plan and promised to give people who were previously convicted of marijuana offenses the first opportunity to sell it legally.

A hospital in Illinois will close on Friday due in part to a cyberattack a rare case of a health care provider publicly linking a hack incident to its closure.The 2021 cyberattack on St. Margaret's Health, a hospital in Spring Valley, Illinois, hobbled computer systems for months and prevented it from filing insurance claims, Linda Burt, a hospital vice president, told CNN on Monday.

By Narayan Annamalai When cybersecurity measures fail, the results can be devastating and costly.In the past year, network security failures have led to downed websites, delayed flights, unavailable video games, and much more.Such incidents can erode customer, investor, and board member trust and result in the types of headlines you don't want.

A row has erupted over Chinese-made wristbands given out at the concert at Windsor Castle celebrating the coronation of King Charles III.The BBC, which organised the event, came under fire for buying the light-emitting wristbands because of China's woeful human rights record and the ongoing Uyghur genocide.

If you live in the US, the stuff you buy-that new dining room table, bag of rice, or pair of pants heading to your home right now-may experience the all-electric future of global transportation before you do.Tens of millions of tons of goods move through California's ports each year, proceeding from ship to port and beyond on hulking semitrucks.

Americans are confronting a shortage of several major drug treatments.Some cancer patients are struggling to get chemotherapy drugs.Antibiotics are scarce after winter's severe flu season.Medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are in short supply.Even children's Tylenol has been hard to find, as my colleague Christina Jewett wrote.

Rishi Sunak's Downing Street food summit has been described as empty" by food and farming industry representatives, who rounded on the prime minister for failing to discuss soaring inflation or set out measures to safeguard British food production.The Farm to Fork summit, the first meeting of its kind, brought together farmers, food producers and some of Britain's largest supermarkets.

Publishers could be forgiven for dragging their heels on testing the cookie alternatives in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox.There's been a delay or two on the phaseout of third-party cookies, after all.But Google swears it's serious about its 2024 deadline."One hundred percent, we are deprecating the third-party cookie in the second half of 2024 - full stop," said Joey Trotz, director of Google's Chrome Privacy Sandbox initiative, speaking at an AdMonsters event in New York City last week.

Warm weather calls for cooling, refreshing treats: For some Asian American dessert makers that means wobbly, jiggly, jelly-based desserts from Taiwan to Indonesia.You can eat them on their own whether it's coconut jelly on its own or served with crushed ice and brown sugar.Jellies can be the base for an array of toppings or they can be minimalist shapes like a crystal-clear droplet that displays a flower.

Unlocking the power of geospatial data can give organizations a competitive edge, from optimizing supply chain logistics and enhancing customer experience to mitigating fraud and improving public health outcomes.But despite its far-reaching benefits, many organizations fail to fully harness geospatial data's potential.

Sharethrough, a top global independent omnichannel ad exchange, is launching GreenPMPs™ (Private Marketplaces) for CTV (connected TV) ad campaigns in partnership with Scope3, solidifying their position as a key partner helping ad buyers reduce their carbon footprint.According to a study conducted by Sharethrough, 80% of consumers favour brands that are actively working to reduce their carbon emissions.

SAP and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to include a comprehensive new open data offering, designed to simplify data landscapes and help enterprises view their entire data estates in real time.The new integration will help customers build an end-to-end data cloud that pulls together data from across the enterprise landscape using both SAP Datasphere and Google's data cloud, without the risk of duplication.

The well-known Cadbury Flake synonymous with the 99 cones sold in ice cream vans has been deemed too crumbly by vendors.The row comes as the UK is set to see the hottest day of the year so far this Bank Holiday weekend prompting queues at ice cream vans across the country.Vendors claim that the quality of the Cadbury Flake 99 has deteriorated since the production of the sweet treat was moved to Egypt.

The Cadbury 99 flake is too flakey, ice cream sellers have warned.Ice cream vendors have insisted the quality of the flake has deteriorated since production was moved to Egypt.Owner of C&M Creamery Ices John Taylor told the BBC the product breaks easily.You can't give someone a 99 with a broken flake.

Food prices are taking centre stage in the cost of living crisis, placing significant pressure on household budgets even as overall inflation eases.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced on Wednesday that overall Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation fell to 8.7 per cent in April, down from 10.1 per cent in March, as last year's energy price hikes were not repeated.

Tesco has announced another round of price cuts on its own-brand pasta and cooking oil as it sees deflation making its way through to cupboard essentials.The UK's biggest supermarket is dropping the price of 30 products, with 15p off 500g and 1kg packs of own-brand pasta, 14p off its one litre vegetable oil and 15p off its one litre sunflower oil.

Beijing on Sunday told Chinese companies that deal with critical information to stop purchasing products from Micron Technology, the U.S.-based manufacturer of memory chips used in phones, computers and other electronics.Many analysts viewed the move as retaliation for Washington's efforts to cut off China's access to high-end chips.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, authorities are cracking down on the smuggling of U.S. technology in support of Russia's war effort, an initiative with implications for the tech industry.One significant example of this is Russia's drone program, with a December 2022 expose describing U.S. chips, circuit boards, and amplifiers found in downed Russian drones, and mapping part of the supply chain trafficking such items to Russia in spite of Western sanctions.