Sridhar Ramaswamy

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In today’s newsletter: European news companies are suing Google; the TV industry reevaluates IP addresses; Sridhar Ramaswamy will be Snowflake’s new CEO.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search For A Replacement The Google antitrust trial allows for a great deal of cynical theater. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testifies with, of course, exactly what Microsoft wants from the trial. Sridhar Ramaswamy, former Google search product chief who started an ads-free search engine, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Borking Google’s Privacy Pitch Judges and regulators have narrowly interpreted the consumer welfare standard – the mechanism that’s dictated U.S. antitrust enforcement for 40 years – so that a monopolistic business practice must be shown to directly affect consumer pricing.  But that standard has […]

Sridhar Ramaswamy left Google three years ago after a long stint as head of the company’s search and advertising products. His experience overseeing the world’s largest ad-supported business was among the most powerful roles in advertising, and set him up for practically any leadership role in data-driven marketing. So it raised eyebrows last year when […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Group Think New rule! Facebook will begin telling users who are about to join a group whether said group has ever violated its Community Standards. Facebook is trying to get its act together when it comes to flagging hate speech and misinformation, especially after […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Searching For Something? Breaking into the search engine category is hard, borderline impossible. But one familiar name is taking a new approach. Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s former SVP of ads and commerce, co-founded a search engine called Neeva that doesn’t collect user data or sell […]

Ryan Joe contributed One of Google’s key ad executives is riding off into the VC sunset. Sridhar Ramaswamy, SVP for ads and commerce,  will depart the Googleplex for a role with Greylock Ventures, Forbes reports. Prabhakar Raghavan, VP of Google cloud apps, will become the new ads honcho. “I’ve long admired how Sridhar and his team have […]

Consumers’ mistrust of data-driven advertising has reached a crisis point, and they must be reminded of the value they’re getting in exchange, said Google SVP of ads and commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy at the Data Summit in Dublin Wednesday evening. “It’s up to all of us to confront the crisis in front of us,” Ramaswamy told […]