Here’s some product news: do-it-yourself mobile app creation vendor Swiftic (formerly Como and, before that, Conduit Mobile) has launched a version to help social media influencers monetize their audiences. Swiftic’s core market is small businesses, which pay roughly $50 per month for apps that integrate a variety of services including loyalty programs, appointments, coupons, push notifications, and deliveries. They have over 20,000 customers.

I could find another piece of obscure data technology news but you wouldn’t read it. Instead, here’s an especially fine survey from Econsultancy about marketing attribution, sponsored by AdRoll. It’s your chance to wallow in glorious details about uptake, methods, goals, benefits, challenges, channels, effectiveness, regional differences, and more. Just in time for the weekend!

There’s probably no limit to Amazon’s greed – because capitalism – but there are constraints as governments regulate BigTech more aggressively and, just maybe, the free market works its wonders. Amazon cited “seller sentiment related to the fee” in its statement pulling back from its planned 2% fee on sellers who don’t use its Prime fulfillment services.  But looming antitrust cases likely had something to do with it.