Cardlytics to Buy Dosh for $275 mln Digital advertising platform Cardlytics (NASDAQ:CDLX) announced its planned acquisition of Dosh, a cash-back offers platform. The two companies, both Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) members, offer complementary capabilities that bring value to consumers, advertisers and bank partners. DCA Insight Combining Dosh technology that powers direct to consumer and mobile wallet CLO programs with Cardlytics...

Activist Investors Want Kohl’s to Move Faster In an effort to turn around the department-store chain Kohl’s amid slow sales, decreasing margins and challenges related to issues that pre-date the pandemic, a group of activist investors is trying to take control. The investors have nominated nine people to the 12-person board. DCA Insight The company is to be commended for...

[image_with_animation image_url=”19503″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”] Mastercard Opens Network to Crypto Digital Commerce Alliance member Mastercard announced it will offer support for select cryptocurrencies on its network in 2021. The credit-card company joins others, including payments companies, Square and PayPal, to enable new digital currencies including cryptocurrencies. The announcement comes on the heels of Tesla’s...

Shopify Payment System Now on Facebook & Instagram Shop Pay, Shopify’s checkout and payment processing system, will be available on some Facebook platforms this week. Consumers will have the ability to use Shop Pay to complete transactions on social sites Instagram and on Facebook Shops. This is the first time Shop Pay has been available outside e-commerce stores of Shopify...

Walmart to Acquire Digital Marketing Tech Retail giant Walmart announced that it is acquiring technology from Thunder Industries to launch a self-service tool to help advertisers display ads targeting its stores’ shoppers. The self-service tool will enable suppliers to make and buy numerous versions of display ads and test them for effectiveness. CardLinx Insight Retailers have been slower than big...