ConcreteDirect, a brand of LafargeHolcim, has selected HERE Technologies, a global leader in location platform services, as its mapping and location services provider to support the future growth of this digital solution. ConcreteDirect is a simple way to manage orders and track deliveries of concrete through a mobile application, available on iOS and Android. The application makes the life of ConcreteDirect users and customers easier by reducing the complexity and workload. Customers can place, amend and confirm orders…

Elite Team of Dedicated Data Scientists Advance the Journey to AI for more than 130 IBM Customers IBM announced momentum and growth for its vaunted Data Science Elite Team, which has helped propel IBM to number one in global AI market share by revenue as ranked by IDC. In addition, the Elite Team has played a key role in helping close the data science skills gap, through unique academic programs. To date, the Data Science Elite Team has grown to almost 100 data scientists around the world and has been deployed on more…

Adding Unacast's Real World Graph Will Enable Mutual Customers to Derive Unique Insights to Support Real Estate Decisions Cherre, the NYC-based real estate data and analytics platform, announced a new data partnership with Unacast, an industry leading location data and strategic insights company. In this partnership, Cherre will integrate Unacast's Real World Graph® into its platform, enabling mutual customers to seamlessly connect geospatial data. The Real World Graph® is an interconnected system of data sets that…

Corporate Achievements in 2019 Marked by New Headquarters, EMEA Expansion and Growing Customer Base, Culminates in User Event Drawing Top Names in Data Science OmniSci, the pioneer in accelerated analytics, recapped its achievements for 2019, highlighted by Converge in October, its inaugural global user conference. Coming on the heels of business expansion to the EMEA region, a new San Francisco headquarters, growth with over 5,000 enterprise, community and cloud users and a groundbreaking collaboration with Intel, Converge…

Pure Silver clients can maximize revenue for each of their locations Uberall, Inc., the digital platform delivering 'Near Me' Brand Experiences for brick-and-mortar customers, announced that Pure Silver Creative -- a marketing solution for small businesses and franchises -- has signed on with Uberall's channel partners program. With the partnership, Pure Silver will now leverage Uberall's platform, unlocking even greater location marketing opportunities for its clients. "We're excited to extend our capabilities in…

Torque Esports Corp., Saturday's Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Fortnite in-game promotion again highlighted the massive growth potential for gaming as a critical global marketing platform according to Torque Esports' data steaming experts, Stream Hatchet. Not only was the in-game introduction, movie clip and gaming experience enjoyed by millions of Fortnite gamers, more than 50,000 gamers live-streamed the experience on their Twitch, YouTube Gaming, Mixer and Facebook channels – reaching more than 3.1 million viewers.…

With Smart Alerts, Mapp, a leading provider of cloud-based digital marketing solutions, now offers its customers an intelligent tool for the timely detection of data anomalies – be they positive or negative. All relevant metrics and dimensions are automatically monitored thanks to the application of artificial intelligence. It provides users with the distinct advantage of not having to search for anomalies themselves, but of being actively alerted to them as soon as they occur. This leaves more time for detailed data…

HEROW is the first location service provider to integrate with Intercom, allowing businesses to enrich customer intelligence with location behaviors HEROW, a location intelligence and contextual platform for mobile applications, announces its partnership with Intercom, the business messaging platform that offers the only customizable messaging suite that drives growth at every stage of the customer lifecycle. HEROW’s app is now available in the Intercom App Store, which offers apps and integrations to acquire, engage and…

Phunware, Inc. , a fully-integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced the addition of landmark routing capabilities to its Location Based Services, allowing apps to display navigation instructions in a more user-friendly manner. Elements of map data such as waypoints and Points of Interests (POIs) are now configured as landmarks which enable directions to be provided with visual landmarks. For example, directions will display “Turn…

The preferred digital partner of franchises and multi-unit brands launches new business partnerships and advertising channels in proprietary local marketing platform Location3, the preferred digital partner of the world's leading franchisors and multi-unit brands, has launched a new partnership with Yelp in addition to rolling out brand new advertising options for customers on its proprietary LOCALACT marketing platform. In being recognized as an official Yelp Advertising Partner, the digital agency followed up the recent…

CDVA, the 1st Global AI Standard, Enables Words Supporting a Language between Machines to Develop for Lower Cost, Lower Latency and Energy Efficient Automation Intelligence Gyrfalcon Technology Inc. (GTI) sees interest surging around MPEG7's latest standards that usher in a wave of capabilities leveraging AI, but more importantly, solving issues for AI that promise to accelerate deployment, reduce latency, lower cost and alleviate compatibility. It is timely that such standards are emerging, as machines are becoming the…

SAP SE announced a partnership with project44®, a global leader in advanced visibility for shippers and logistics service providers. The new partnership aims to change the way shippers manage the delivery process, helping customers to save time and resources, improve operations and thrive in the experience economy. The companies plan to offer a joint solution for key transportation processes, such as receiving and tracking, that will connect, automate and provide visibility data and insight from project44 within SAP…

As consumers spend more time online to perform everyday tasks from banking to shopping to streaming entertainment, an increasing amount of this internet traffic is being routed through proxies. Online users wanting to surf the web anonymously often use proxies that can provide them with a means to mask their IP address from the rest of the world―and thus their locations and all the contextual information that can be gleaned in order to make marketing messages more targeted and personalized. By connecting to the internet…

The Influencer Marketing space has grown exponentially in recent years. This should come as no surprise, given the potent combination of an increasingly sophisticated consumer pool, massive upsurge in social media consumption and the rise in ad blockers that has made traditional advertising progressively difficult – so difficult that the spend on Influencer Marketing is set to exceed $10 Billion by the end of 2020. Step forward ‘influencer campaigns’, which have risen to prominence to meet the need for a more authentic,…

Data and technology division of Hyperion invests in capabilities to hyper-personalise product and service offerings for clients and to strengthen their competitive position in the insurance sector Hyperion X, created in 2019 as the data and technology division of Hyperion Insurance Group, a leading insurance group with employee ownership at its heart, has selected Reltio Cloud as the core client data platform to power its data and analytics capabilities and strengthen its competitive position in the insurance sector. "We…

Black Friday shopping at physical stores saw a 4.2% increase in sales compared to 2018, according to First Data Insights. The Black Friday 2019 SpendTrend Holiday Snapshot from First Data, now Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, showed that consumers were willing to travel for a deal, with a quarter of shoppers traveling more than 25 miles to visit a physical store on Black Friday. At the same time, spending via mobile wallets increased more than 80%, as consumers…

Creates World-Class Data Management Software Company that Enables Enterprises Across All Major Industries to Maximize the Value of their Data Syncsort closed the acquisition of the Pitney Bowes software and data business, creating a powerhouse data management software company with more than 11,000 enterprise customers, $600 million in revenue and 2,000 employees worldwide. The new company brings an unmatched combination of scale, agility and breadth of portfolio to empower leading enterprises to gain a competitive…

UK and US-Sourced Futures Market Data Available at Mumbai's BKC Data Center McKay Brothers International (MBI) announced an expansion of its lowest known latency market data services to India. The Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service now distributes select London Metals Exchange data at Mumbai's Banda Kurla Complex (BKC) in less than 51milliseconds one-way. In addition, MBI offers select Aurora, Illinois-sourced Metals, Energy, and FX futures data at BKC in less than 85 milliseconds one-way, the lowest known commercial…

At re:Invent, TruFactor, debuts 40+ offerings as a Launch Partner for AWS Data Exchange, making consumer intelligence easily accessible to millions of AWS customers TruFactor, an InMobi Group company, announced at AWS re:Invent 2019 that over 40 TruFactor intelligence offerings tailored to specific use cases and industries are now available on AWS Data Exchange, a new service that makes it easy for millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.…

Survey Explores Differences in Data and Privacy Practices Based on Company Size, Location, Sector and Geographic Reach TrustArc, the leader in privacy compliance and data protection solutions, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the world's largest global information privacy community, announced the results of new benchmarking research that examines the current state of privacy operations. The research shows that a majority of companies are adopting a single global data protection…