The bank was fined by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for sending more than 65 million spam emails. A first batch of 61 million emails required recipients to log in if they wanted to unsubscribe, a second batch of 4 million were sent with no unsubscribe option, and a third round of 5000 were sent to people who had requested to unsubscribe.
The Trade Desk is trying to set itself up as a platform at the center of a non-walled-garden adtech ecosystem, which is a tall order with potentially tall rewards. They climbed a couple of steps on Monday by adding integrations with purchase data from Albertsons, Walgreens, and others; new indices to measure TV audience quality and reach; and a partner portal to simplify integrations with other adtech products. They also added a bunch of AI-driven features to simplify programmatic media buying, but you’d expect that.
Dave & Buster’s continues its global expansion plans, which began in 2022, with a 5-store partnership with the NightOwl Entertainment Group in Australia and a 15-store partnership with the Malpani Grou in India. These are the company’s second and third franchise agreements, as it cements the brand in APAC and MEA.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.