More acquisition news: conversational marketing platform Drift is buying Giant Otter, which uses AI to build chatbots even smarter than Drift’s existing products. Wasting no time, Drift announced Drift Automation, a chatbot tool that uses the Giant Otter technology.
You may have noticed we’re covering more CDP vendor news, Dear Reader. If you didn’t notice, I’ve just helpfully pointed it out. Today’s item is a new cohort analysis feature from AgilOne. They also released an enhanced segment builder.
When it comes to obvious, nothing beats news that social media is rife with fraud. But you might still be surprised that Arkose Labs found more than half of all social media logins are fraudulent as are 25% of new account applications. It may explain last week’s non-obvious report that online and offline social conversations are not correlated.
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.