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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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Help is on the way for those despairing of fending off random news alerts, ads, and trick emails in the form of a new service from Edison that lets you choose who can get into your inbox. The new release, now in public beta, includes a proprietary Permission Control feature that allows you to accept or block senders before mail gets in your box. It also blocks ad targeters trying to monitor your email behavior and lets you set a custom domain for use on multiple platforms. Free and professional plans are available.

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I thought we’d just ease into the Labor Day weekend today but here’s some actual news: digital experience platform Episerver has purchased optimization platform Optimizely. It’s Episerver’s third acquisition since it was bought by private equity investor Insight Venture Partners in September 2018. Price was not announced.

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Apple is delaying enforcement of the iOS 14 privacy features that will require permission for advertisers to access its IDFA device ID. Advertisers in general and Facebook in particular were upset about the feature, which will severely limit tracking of individuals. Apple said the new feature would be deployed “early next year”.

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If your programmatic media bingo card had “movie theaters” on it, you’re can check that one off: digital out of home ad network Vistar Media is teaming with Screenvision to sell in-theater ads. This assumes that people will actually attend theaters again.

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Which is not a martech best practice: agile techniques, formal metrics, or hiring outside consultants? CDP Institute’s just-released member survey shares that and other keys to CDP success. We even reveal once and for all what’s the most important feature in a CDP. Vox populi vox dei.

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Did you scratch you head last year when the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association bought NAPCO Media, publisher of Target Marketing and Publishing Executive? Now you can unscratch it, because SGIA just sold NAPCO to Adweek. Adweek itself was bought by Shamrock Capital in June, and is apparently looking to scale up its audience data.

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Did you notice that today’s items all start with a question? RichRelevance has some new answers about what buyers want. They just launched “deep recommendations”, which can predict how products will sell before they’ve been offered. The company says that system yields 80% higher sales than standard recommendation engines.

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InfoSum has technology that lets companies analyze data on shared customers without sharing the data itself. It uses Bloom filters, a term you can casually drop the next time you’re trying to impress a privacy geek. The rest of us may be impressed that they just raised $15 million to complete their Series A.

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