Tired of worrying about those pesky data privacy rules? DataGrail has launched a managed service to do it for you. Alas, the scope seems limited to data mapping and response to consumer data requests, so handling the data correctly will still be up to your company.
Maybe it only seems like martech acquisitions have become more rare. Founders Advisors reports the number of deals has actually been about flat over the past two years, although deal value and valuations have definitely fallen. Meanwhile, Crunchbase says the number of U.S.-based start-ups is down 86% since 2020, with similar declines in Europe and Israel. I wonder if Crunchbase just hasn’t identified some of newest companies yet.
New investigations by the European Commission about Microsoft Teams and by France’s Autorité de la concurrence about Apple continue efforts to reign in Big Tech overreach. With Microsoft concern is that having bundled Teams software with its Office 365 suite by default, Microsoft made it difficult for other products to compete. With Apple, the regulator that oversees competition is looking into claims the company used its market position to implement discriminatory, non-transparent conditions to use its customer data to be used for ad purposes.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.