Walmart doing stuff is apparently a trend in itself, but so far they seem to have missed the “data observability” market. We do have a $200 million Series C for data observability vendor Cribl. Just last week, Cribl competitor Monte Carlo raised a $60 million Series C of its own.
Next up: Point Pickup Technologies has purchased white label ecommerce platform GrocerKey. This highlights the trend of retailers taking control over last-mile delivery systems, rather than relying on United Parcel Service, Amazon, Uber, Instacart, or others. You’ll recall that WalMart opened its own delivery services to other retailers just last week.
The UK government is overhauling its privacy rules and is weighing changes, including ending cookie popups and online consent requests. If so, it will have to balance loosening its rules in comparison with those of the EU while considering implications for adequacy for compliance to allow data transfers under GDPR.
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.