Here’s a crowd-pleaser: an interactive logoscape of the big data industry just released by Knowledgent, a data and analytics consultancy. With 250+ vendors, it just scratches the surface, although there were plenty of companies I’ve never heard of. By interactive, I mean you can click on logos to see company profiles and even do comparisons and searches. Hours of fun!
Advertisers continue to push Google to block placements on offensive sites.
Finally, we have an announcement from B2B publishing company SourceMedia that they’ve launched a set of data-driven products based on “an advanced data science and machine learning utility known as a Customer Data Platform (CDP).”
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.