E-commerce tech giant Shopify has dropped a cool $450 million for 6 River Systems, which provides warehouse fulfillment systems. The acquisition will support Shopify Fulfillment Network, which was launched in June to help sellers compete with Amazon’s fulfillment juggernaut. Yes, I said juggernaut.
Adobe has announced Customer Journey Analytics and Cross-Device Analytics within Adobe Analytics. The former shows data from multiple sources; the latter shows data from related devices. Both can combine data in Adobe Analytics with data and device graphs in the (separate) Adobe Experience Platform. Release dates were not mentioned.
What’s that, you worry that centralized data accumulation can lead to massive leaks people who ignore consent? But surely anyone working with so much sensitive data would never do anything really dumb, like leaving 419 million phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts on an insecure server. Oh wait: Facebook just did.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.