Devs wanna dev, but business users have other priorities. Almost three quarters (72%) of the in-store retail decision makers queried by Forrester for CX solution vendor Uberall said they’d favor a platform that unified separate point solutions to address marketing and CX needs. Similar numbers felt their company did a less-than-good job of providing seamless customer journeys across all touchpoints.
API connections are another way that companies can patch together something resembling a CDP (or do a lot of other, non-CDP things). RapidAPI has made a business of helping companies to find, manage, and build APIs. They just raised a $150 million Series D, having grown to more than four million users since they were founded in 2015.
UK Based cyber security solutions company Sophos has opened a data centre in Mumbai, India to address the local demand for its cloud management platform and meet the local data sovereignty regulations.
Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.