While we’re on the topic, content development platform Contentful also has an announcement: an “authoring hub” to create content that can be shared across all digital platforms. One CMS to rule them all, you might say.
We have a cluster of in-store marketing items today. UPshow lets places like bars, health clubs and restaurants push ads and interactive content to TVs and customer smartphones. They’ve just raised a $6 million Series A.
Chatbots aside, most people have mixed feelings about AI, suspecting that it will help the rich but harm the poor and lead to greater social isolation, according to this Edelman study. Large majorities among both the general population and tech executives agree that the tech industry in general has been under-regulated and that AI development in particular needs to be monitored by a public agency. Much food for thought.
Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.