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At Salsify, CX stands for Commerce Experience – an extension of product information management to include sharing order and inventory data across retailers, distributors, online marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer Web sites. The cross-channel unification enables manufacturers to respond quickly to demand changes wherever they appear.

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Segment has released a new feature, Data Lakes, that automatically converts raw data into a structured format (Apache Parquet) and makes the metadata accessible via the Amazon Glue Data Catalog. The tool is aimed at data scientists who would otherwise need to develop those structures for themselves. It supplements existing Segment connectors that convert data into formats for specific target systems. It’s free to current Segment clients.

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Neustar is teaming with Google to provide Android mobile phone users with better information about who’s calling. The hope is that people will pick up more calls when they know who’s on the other end. Android phone will display who’s calling, confirmation of their identity, brand logos, and a reason for the call.

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The pandemic has destroyed many relationships. Its latest casualty is the Taboola-Outbrain merger, announced last October but reportedly about to be called off. Ad revenue is down and bankers are less willing to provide cash needed to support the merger process.

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“Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions,” from the AI Now Institute says there’s a growing sense among regulation advocates that a biometric surveillance state is not inevitable.

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Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) is set to go into effect September 16th. Their Senate decided to reject further delays. Unless vetoed by Brazil’s President, the law which has an extraterritorial effect, will proceed. The Senate also approved creation of a new data authority for enforcement, the ANDP.

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CDP Institute’s 2020 member survey found 28% of companies treat privacy as a selling point; 58% just try to comply with regulations; and 14% take few steps to comply.

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PopID users’ faces are key to payment & entry California start-up PopID has just launched a face-based payments network and a facial ID tool, called PopEntry, to verify people at businesses and universities. The company anticipates 3,000 installations in U.S. states by the end of 2020. People enrolled with PopID can use their face as ID for a range of applications, including for keys, key cards, facilities access, payments and loyalty programs.

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Not much usually happens on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, but Salesforce did let slip news that it is buying headless online storefront Mobify. It’s a nice extension of Salesforce’s existing ecommerce capabilities and another sign of increased competition as online sales take a larger share of retail pie.

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Sticking with retail, Profitero is creating an “open ecosystem” to simplify sharing the data it captures about product sales and traffic on 8,000 on Websites around the world. Ecosystem partners include ad agencies, publishers, and analytics platforms. It’s all about breaking down silos and who could be against that, except maybe silo insurance companies?

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Finally, the retail analytics gurus at dunnhimby have launched Model Lab, a Web-based data science tool on Microsoft Azure, which automates much of the tedious data preparation required to build predictive models. It’s sold through subscription, so it’s an example of cloud-based systems easing access advanced technology.

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Facebook’s Opacus tool, offers new approach Facebook wants to make it easier for engineers to use differential privacy in AI, with a new tool that limits impact on the primary dataset. Opacus, which trains PyTorch models with differential privacy, uses an algorithm that centers instead on intervening with parameter gradients. This follows recent announcements from Google to open source the differential privacy library, and Microsoft, which released WhiteNoise for Azure and GitHub.

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