The investigation by Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) was triggered by a complaint by Match Group (which owns Tinder and other dating apps). Match claims Google’s Android Play Store uses a dominant position to preclude use of other payment systems. Google, in a statement, says Match is eligible to use other (more expensive) options outside Google Play’s standard policies.
“To thine own shelf be true” would be a great motto for a retail consultancy, although UK-based GIG Retail hasn’t chosen it. But they are entering the U.S. with a package of services to help retailers build their own media networks, an increasingly popular project. So far, no one has protested too much.
For just $160, Vice’s Motherboard team bought a SafeGraph list of a weeks’ worth of data on location and length of stay for groups of people who visited Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics (and where they went afterward). To say this is sensitive information, given what looks like pending reversal of Roe v. Wade, is an understatement. What is safe to say is the people whose data was collected never consented to have information accrued by SafeGraph via software development kit code (SDK) data of ordinary-use apps (for weather... Read More >
Customer intelligence platform Acxiom will collaborate with ActionIQ to deliver enhanced customer insights. ActionIQ’s CDP will integrate with Acxiom’s demographic, household, behavioral and preference data and with Acxiom’s RealID identity resolution solution. Acxiom experts will work with clients to customize and streamline ActionIQ.