If your definition of joy is running omni-channel retail on an iPhone, then NewStore is your new best friend. They promise their one system does everything, which may appeal to people who doubt that integrating lots of systems can really be simple. Newstore just raised $20 million in new funding from backers including Salesforce Ventures, bringing their total to $130 million.
We all know that 2/2 is National Repeat Yourself Day, but let’s celebrate early by reporting things we’ve reported before. We’ll start with this Nielsen study that finds just 28% of marketers make data quality their top priority, ranking it behind audience targeting, ad creative, and reach. In fact, Nielsen says marketers are creatures of habit who do many irrational things. We are shocked.
Try not to laugh: telecommunications giant Verizon has launched its own privacy-focused search engine, named OneSearch. They promise to avoid cookies, data sharing, storing search history, or tailoring search results to previous behavior. The product is from Verizon Media, which will fund it by selling ads targeted only (well, mostly) on the current search keywords.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.