Syncsort has purchased Pitney Bowes’ software solutions business, a collection of tools for customer analytics, data quality, personalization, interaction management, geocoding, and more. It illustrates the interest that general data management vendors are showing in customer data. Price was $700 million.

Finally, we’re told that a majority of robocall blocker apps have been found to share personal data without user permission. How much you care depends on your attitude towards privacy but it’s surely bad news in terms of general trust levels. Can I go home now?

BetterUp and Stanford Social Media Lab define workslop as “AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance.” Their survey of 1,150 full-time desk workers in the U.S. finds that 40% received workslop in the last month, costing $186 per month per employee. For a 10,000-person company, that’s $9 million annually.