Singapore-based Grab Holdings, Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing and food delivery app, is cutting 1,000 jobs or 11% of its workforce, its CEO said on 20 Jun 2023, citing the need to manage costs and ensure more affordable services long term.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced it will take legal action against Meta, the parent company of Facebook as the company has failed to remove “undesirable contents” on the Facebook social media platform.
RudderStack has launched a feature to build unified customer profiles in a Snowflake data warehouse. The new feature, called, um, Profiles, builds an identity graph and uses it to assemble a customer data table that can include user-defined attributes such as lifetime purchases and last interaction date. It joins Rudderstack’s existing tools for data collection and distribution to create what’s effectively an integrated CDP. The main difference from a conventional CDP is the same Snowflake instance could contain non-CDP data.
After years of thinking they were in the business of selling things to people, retailers have realized they’re actually in the business of selling people to advertisers. Retail media networks are the most obvious result, but why stop at ads sold directly by the retailer? Walmart has hooked up with Disney Advertising to test letting advertisers on Disney+, Hulu, and other Disney outlets use Walmart audience information to improve targeting and measure results.