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CDP Zeotap has added the ability to include data not directly tied to an individual customer, including transactions, account information, and product catalog details. The “Non-Customer Entity Data” feature broadens the amount of data available for segmentation and journey orchestration. While not unique to Zeotap, it is still relatively rare.

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Google has agreed to pay a $700 million fine to settle the multi-state lawsuit related to its app store payment processing system. The figure includes $630 million to be paid to up to 102 million U.S. consumers to compensate for higher prices caused by Google’s approach. Google still faces other anti-trust actions, notably the federal case still underway in Washington, DC.

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Digital workflow company ServiceNow is buying task mining software company UltimateSuite. The deal will make it easier for users to identify tasks to automate. It follows previous acquisitions by ServiceNow of data integration vendor G2K in May 2023 and AI experts Element AI in November 2020.

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It may take a while for BigTech to realize that global regulators are not as deferential as they used to be. Adobe just learned that the hard way – with a tuition of $1 billion in termination fees – when it agreed with Figma to abandon their proposed merger. “Thousands of hours spent with regulators around the world” couldn’t convince authorities that their product design products are not competitive, and never could be.

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Developers who build applications that run on someone else’s platform know they risk being knee-capped if the platform builds similar features into its core system. Data clean room vendors received a reminder today when Snowflake announced it is purchasing Samooha, a system that simplifies clean room development on Snowflake. Samooha was already a Snowflake partner but presumably the deal will allow them to create even tighter integrations.

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Acquisitions by software vendors are often strategic, but don’t underestimate the allure of simple financial gain. Analytics software vendor Alteryx, which has been a public company since 2017, has agreed to sell itself to private equity investors Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners. The deal is valued at $4.4 billion, a 29.1% premium over the company’s closing share price last Friday.

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stood up (by a narrow margin) to opposition by a group of senators looking to block stricter breach regulations on the telecom industry. The new regulation will require telecoms to notify customers, law enforcement agencies and the FCC about data breaches within 30 days.

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Dropbox thoughtfully added an enabled-by-default setting that shares Dropbox data with OpenAI, but its reception fell flat on social media. Seems people weren’t very reassured by the company’s explanation the data wouldn’t be used to train AI and would be deleted in one-months’ time.

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Cambodia may be the next Southeast Asian country to have a privacy law. However, a draft copy obtained by news venue, Nikkei Asia is raising fears the legislation may actually put personal data at increased risk and empower the government and companies to share data without consent.

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Companies trying to steer a true course amid shifting privacy regulations may welcome the new toolset from Common Sense Privacy, an AI Fund-backed for-profit spinoff of the privacy rating organization Common Sense Media. The tools include capabilities to draft privacy policies and to advise on filling out privacy nutrition labels required by app stores. There’s also a dashboard to help companies see how what they’re doing stacks up against various regulations.

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Edulog Parent Portal, a platform that enables parents of K-12 students to track bus location in real time, had an API bug that allowed access personal information, including kids’ names, geolocation and parental data.

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The group, SDBN also has Amazon and X (formerly Twitter) in its sights.

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