Data Driven stories
Black & White Engineering names new CTO & innovation chief
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Black & White Engineering appoints Charlie Bater as Chief Technical Officer and Paul Cook as Global Director of Technology & Innovation amid global expansion.
Why email automation fails without clean and verified data
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Clean, verified customer data is the key to effective email automation, as poor records can damage deliverability, targeting and ROI.
Gain Theory says insight gap is cultural, not technical
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Gain Theory urges marketers to fix cultural barriers and siloed measurement, saying 54% of B2C decision-makers find insights unactionable.
Buckaroo Capital brings merchant finance to Benelux
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Buckaroo and YouLend launch capital product for Benelux merchants, using transaction data to offer revenue-based working capital through the payments portal.
Milestone turns video data into AI-driven intelligence
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Milestone Systems' Project Hafnia uses AI video language models to turn CCTV streams into real-time, multi‑modal security insight.
Open Media joins VIOOH for UK DOOH programmatic buying
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Open Media links with VIOOH to trade 42 UK digital out-of-home screens programmatically, offering 120m monthly impressions to buyers.
UK unveils GBP £2.5bn push for AI & quantum growth
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UK unveils GBP £2.5bn AI and quantum package, as tech leaders hail Sovereign AI Fund as signal of long-term innovation strategy.
Multiply raises USD $9.5m for self-learning B2B ads
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San Francisco startup Multiply raises USD $9.5m to power self-learning B2B ad campaigns across Google Search, LinkedIn and emerging AI formats.
Payoneer, FundPark launch eCommerce credit for sellers
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Payoneer teams with FundPark to offer Hong Kong eCommerce sellers AI-driven credit lines of up to USD $10 million via integrated accounts.
The amber problem: Why addresses alone won't solve cross-border payment failures
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Cross-border payments are failing despite accurate addresses, exposing a GBP £94 billion data and identity gap banks can no longer ignore.
Confluent says data streaming will enable faster, better decisions
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Confluent says organisations must shift to governed data streaming, with AI agents making millisecond decisions at scale.
Explore Learning urges evidence-led AI in classrooms
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Explore Learning warns schools that hype-fuelled classroom AI risks harming children's learning without robust evidence and human oversight.
LiveRamp unveils AI agents for data-driven marketing
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LiveRamp launches partner-built AI agents in its platform, automating audience planning, cross-media measurement and privacy-safe optimisation.
Start training for a job that doesn't exist yet
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On International Women's Day, a data leader urges young women to train for unseen careers, valuing curiosity and pivots over rigid plans.
The silent skew: Confronting structural gender bias through data
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UK tech's gender gap is no pipeline glitch but structural bias, demanding rigorous use of data and AI oversight to drive real change.
Amperity hires Bridget Perry as Chief Marketing Officer
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Amperity names seasoned SaaS marketer Bridget Perry as CMO to drive global growth and sharpen its AI-focused customer data platform.
Meta refines ad click metrics with engage-through shift
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Meta will strip likes and shares from click-through metrics, shifting them to new engage-through reports to align ads data with third-party tools.
Electro‑acoustics, precision audio & women in engineering
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On International Women's Day, a leading electro-acoustics expert urges data-driven audio engineering over luxury aesthetics and stereotypes.
YouLend, Värde agree USD $225m US forward-flow deal
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YouLend seals multi-year deal with Värde, which may buy up to USD $225 million of US receivables to back its embedded lending growth.
Wickes debuts home improvement retail media network
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Wickes has launched Wickes Connected Retail Media with Epsilon, blending store and digital data to target home improvement shoppers.