Amrita Khalid / The Verge: As Spotify’s podcast strategy of focusing on exclusives and celebrity hosts continues to falter, the company seems to be shifting its attention to selling ads  —  The company is entering the ‘next phase’ of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The US and the EU both agree that Google’s ad tech dominance must end and call for a breakup; Margrethe Vestager hailed “close and fruitful” work with the DOJ  —  European Union and US antitrust regulators may have gone their separate ways of late. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Acryl Data, which offers a data catalog service built on DataHub open source framework, raised a $21M Series A led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton starts a two-day California trip to push DSA in meetings with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others  —  Thierry Breton flies to US to warn Twitter’s Elon Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to fall in line with EU law. Lees verder op Tech Meme