Google has barred businesses from using Rich Communication Services for promotion in India, the company’s largest market by users, in a setback for the standard that the company is expecting to help become the future of SMS messaging, following accusations of excessive spam by some corporations.
More on software buying: this CMO Council / KPMG study finds just 26% of marketing leaders actively partner with their company’s procurement departments. Those who do work closely with procurement end up placing higher weight on price, vendors’ industry standing, security, and privacy practices, and less on ability to scale and to meet compliance rules. It’s not clear this results in better outcomes.
Beaconsmind AG, a leading SaaS provider in the field of Location-Based Marketing (LBM) & Analytics, is pursuing its international expansion and has further strengthened its sales team with renowned experts in the fields of sales and business development. The focus of their activities will also include the acquisition of new customers and the development of customer potentials with the setting up of corresponding sales structures, especially in India.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.