FCA probes investment firms’ use of data and analytics
City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority is opening an investigation into the use and value of data and advanced analytics…
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Toy retailer builds data pool after £13.5m ELC acquistion
Toy and craft retailer The Entertainer, which last year acquired the Early Learning Centre (ELC) from Mothercare in a £13.5m…
Google nemesis denounces internal data ‘free-for-all’
European data regulators are being urged to clamp down on companies sharing customer data between their subsidiary businesses in what…
Brands urged to tackle data ‘half-life’ to combat decay
Companies are being encouraged to get to grips with the “half-life” of their customer data to help frame their approach…
IPG picks ‘geek’ Engelgau as Self exits Acxiom CEO job
IPG has handed the top role at Acxiom to self-confessed “engineering geek” Chad Engelgau in a move which sees him…
Brussels to relax data laws to help build EU tech giants
The European Commission is aiming to break US tech giants’ stranglehold on the data economy by changing the law to…
Life after the cookie monster: What you need to know
We all knew it was coming and the cookie is finally crumbling. Earlier this month, when Google announced it would…
Crozier in, Salama out at Kantar but it’s just coincidence
Kantar chief executive Eric Salama has been ousted from the company he helped to build into a $4bn (£3.19bn) business…
Government’s tech body shuns UK firms for contract
Tech Nation, the Government-funded body which represents the UK’s burgeoning technology industry, has raised more than a few eyebrows by…
Tech firms must face AI curbs, says Govt advisory body
The Government must bring in new legislation to tighten up the use of algorithms that drive content on social media…