The Consumer Data Confidence Research by Visa reports that almost eight out of 10 (77%) of Singaporean consumers want the option to control their data rather than leaving it up to the discretion of companies and government.
Federal government agencies will be able to easily tap IBM’s artificial intelligence, quantum computing and emissions software under a $725 million five-year technology program signed by the Commonwealth. The agreement locks in IBM as one of eight vendor-sourced agreements that give federal agencies access on preferred terms to key cloud, main frame, desktop and enterprise software, hardware, and support services.
Grab Vietnam and ZaloPay E-wallet have officially announced their collaboration to launch ZaloPay on the Grab app. Both parties said in a statement that payment via ZaloPay is now available for almost all Grab app services, including transport, food and grocery, and parcel delivery.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)