Facebook is taking an uncharacteristically proactive step on privacy, announcing it will honor Android and iOS privacy settings when they are more restrictive than a user’s Facebook privacy settings. It’s easy to speculate that the real goal is avoiding repeated reminders to users for how much data is being collected. But let’s instead see it as evidence that privacy concerns are having a positive impact on business behavior.
Hi, it’s Jamie, Senior Intern at the Department of the Obvious. The boss tells me he has no news at all today, so I get to write. We’ll start with this Leanplum study that finds the most common reason that people delete smartphone apps is too many and irrelevant messages.
Finally, AI-based scheduling software x.ai is making its system available for free, so long as you share your calendar, location, and contacts. X.ai describes itself as an example of a “utilitarian social network” that provides specific shared services. They point to Venmo, DocuSign, and DropBox as other examples. Interesting.
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.