The Boris Yelstin Presidential Center doesn’t come up very often in this newsletter, so I’m pleased to report that Mindbox, a Moscow-based integrated marketing systemn and CDP vendor that counts the Yelstin Center among its clients, has raised a $13 million investment to fuel its growth and international expansion.  Boris would be proud.

If you’re really obsessed with tech debates, enjoy this RapidAPI report that finds use of APIs is on the rise.    Otherwise, you’re probably more interested that Airship found consumers are more open to receiving brand communications if they’re given control over what they’re sent, how often, and over which channels.  You won’t be surprised that the most common reason people opt to receive brand messages is to save money, or that location- and behavior-based offers are the least important.

Salesforce has announced a new solution, Unified Knowledge, that will pull data from third-party systems thus supplementing Salesforce Data Cloud with external information sources. Initially, this is mainly aimed at helping Service Cloud users in combination with Einstein for Service’s generative AI. It was developed through a strategic partnership with AI vendor Zoomin.