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DealerVault Plays Traffic Cop for Auto Dealer Data

Everybody wants to get in on the act. DealerVault is a cloud-based system that manages the flow of customer data from auto dealers to their support vendors. Since its launch three years ago, it has collected nearly 5,600 dealer customers, including 13 of the top 25 auto retailing groups, and connected with more than 450 vendor partners. The system is much less flexible than a true Customer Data Platform but it does illustrate the appeal of separating the data platform from systems that use the data. It’s also a safe bet that there are plenty of other industry-specific systems doing something similar.

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CallidusCloud Acquires Datahug for Predictive Sales Forecasting Technology

November 10, 2016

CallidusCloud, which offers sales support and enablement applications, acquired Datahug Limited, a SaaS predictive forecasting and sales analytics company. Datahug’s specialty is predictive analysis of sales pipelines but it will be the core of a new Predictive Analytics, AI and Machine Learning innovation center that will presumably develop other applications in the future.

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PR Measurement Company TrendKite Closes $16 Million Funding

November 8, 2016

CDPs don’t have all the funding fun: PR measurement company TrendKit has added $16 million to its $36 million investment total. What’s to measure, you might ask? Lots of stuff, including readership, share of voice, sentiment, social amplification, and message pull-through, as well as impact on search engine ranking, Web traffic, and audience engagement. And they package all this in presentation-ready graphics.

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Meta Faces Class Action for Overcharging Facebook Advertisers

April 17, 2025

Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another.  Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.

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