Privacy issues are creeping up on you like the demented clown in a horror movie, Dear Reader. BigID stands ready to rescue you with tools to find and monitor all the personal information hidden in your virtual cupboards. They just raised a $50 million Series C, bringing total funding to $96 million.
E-commerce tech giant Shopify has dropped a cool $450 million for 6 River Systems, which provides warehouse fulfillment systems. The acquisition will support Shopify Fulfillment Network, which was launched in June to help sellers compete with Amazon’s fulfillment juggernaut. Yes, I said juggernaut.
This seems a good place to mention that B2B data provider DealSignal has recently launched a CRM Data Health module to dynamically clean data in Salesforce. Contact information is just one piece of the data quality puzzle but it’s a good one to solve first.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.