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mark zuckerberg clubhouse facebook apple idfa Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple’s IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses  —  – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he is confident the social media company “will be able to manage through” Apple’s upcoming privacy changes. Source Keep visiting techedirt.com for the latest news and updates.

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As a result, digital marketers are constantly fighting an uphill battle to provide customers with increasingly tailored interactions. These difficulties will increase as the “Cookiepocalypse” draws near. Marketers are scrambling to find alternatives to third-party cookies as Google and other tech giants move forward with plans to phase them out. When it comes to blocking third-party tracking, Firefox and Safari were pioneers. 63% of digital marketing leaders were having trouble personalising their company’s content before the decline of third-party cookies, according to Gartner. There is an inherent tension between personalization and privacy, as Gartner noted more recently, and “most customers…

The festival’s political leanings and level of engagement with current events have always been on full display. From the very beginning, that was the focus of this 73rd annual festival. It’s not shocking, considering that Russia is still waging war on Ukraine and that the Iranian regime is still imprisoning and killing its own citizens in an effort to silence dissent. Panel discussions and red carpet protests in support of the people of Ukraine and Iran are among the special events the Berlinale has already announced. The festival will honour the “catalytic and revolutionary notion of cinema which unites even…

Think of London Fashion Week and images of creative explosions, traffic-halting show venues, glittering front rows, and carefully crafted viral moments immediately come to mind. However, a new, quietly confident vibe can be felt throughout the city’s bustling design studios as London Fashion Week autumn/winter 2023 gets underway on Friday, February 17 and runs through Monday, February 20. If you got the email (Sustainable! Responsible!) invite you know that the main event is Daniel Lee’s Burberry debut on Saturday night. What can we anticipate? Well, the recently cleansed Instagram suggests a return to a very British Burberry and the return…