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Facebook Aims to Grow Its Software Business

More big tech news: Facebook is trying to grow its commercial software business by recruiting partners to push Workplace, a private version of Facebook shared among a company’s employees. Facebook’s goal is probably to gather personal data that’s unprotected by consumer privacy regulations. But you could also see this as entry into martech.

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Amazon Offers Its Own Personalization Models as a Service

June 12, 2019

Studies including this from Avionos, this from Deloitte, this from Yes Marketing, and this from Signs.com all show that consumers care more about a convenient, low cost shopping experience than personalized recommendations. But, as this Sitecore study reports, marketers persist in believing the opposite. If you’re part of that majority, you’ll be thrilled that you can now use Amazon’s very own personalization algorithms on AWS. Cynics will see an Amazon plot to distract competitors from what’s really important. Optimists will argue that making personalization easy frees resources for other improvements.

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