Top 10 Commerce With a Conscience Companies Selected By Digital Commerce Alliance Inaugural DCA listing published today SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 8, 2021)—The Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) today announced its Top 10 Commerce With a Conscience Companies. For the first year ever, the DCA is recognizing leading organizations in the digital commerce, card-linking, mobile wallets, and financial data space who have...

A redesigned Google Pay was launched yesterday. Available in the US on Android and iOS, the updated app expands the payments and commerce ecosystem across a broader range of platforms, devices and payment types. The multinational tech company also announced plans to offer smart banking via FI partnerships. The changes are being made to give consumers more control over their...

Publicis to Buy Epsilon from Alliance Data Alliance Data’s Epsillon Business has agreed to be sold for over $4 billion to Publicis. Alliance Data Systems Corporation is a publicly traded provider of loyalty and marketing services, such as private label credit cards, coalition loyalty programs, and direct marketing, derived from the capture and analysis of transaction-rich data. The war for...

Google Growth Slows as Card-linking and New Digital Ad Players Gain Google reported sharply slowing revenue growth for its digital ads business as new competitors including card-linked marketing platforms and Amazon, Walmart.com gain traction. Google’s  first quarter revenues were up 17% year-over-year, compared with 26% in last year’s first quarter. Google’s performance was in sharp contrast to Amazon that achieved record...

Retail giant starts monetizing their untapped data assets Walmart announced at their annual supplier meeting today that they will be merging their in-store and digital advertising efforts into one internal group. Walmart cites streamlined and integrated marketing campaigns for their suppliers as a benefit of this change. According to Forrester Research, Walmart has more customers than its online-native counterparts like...

Advocacy Groups Call for Facebook’s Break Up Nine advocacy groups have called the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the break up of Facebook in light of its consumer data breaches, especially with Cambridge Analytica. The recommendation includes spinning off Instagram and WhatsApp. The letter urged the FTC to regulate Facebook like a utility given its size, position and influence in...

Re-alignment for e-Commerce Giants According to a report by Bloomberg News, Walmart has recently withdrawn from Google’s Shopping Actions, an e-commerce service, as well as Google Express, a delivery service. Shopping Actions and Google Express are part of Google’s plan to challenge Amazon’s dominance in e-commerce. Amazon is reported to have a 50% market share in US e-commerce and has...

EU regulators put muscle behind GDPR Google was fined $57 million by the French data protection authority, known as CNIL, for violating EU’s consumer data privacy regulation known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed in May 2018. The fine against Google relates to improper disclosure to consumers on how their data is collected and used in personalized ads...