Bob Lederer RBDR

XIO Group buying J.D. Power. Microsoft suing US Dept of Justice. (RBDR 04.18.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) XIO Group, a Chinese-controlled firm based in London, is purchasing J.D. Power for $1.1 billion.

2) Microsoft is taking the U.S. Justice Department to court, alleging that its gag orders – that do not allow Microsoft to alert individuals that their personal information is being shared with the government – is unconstitutional.

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Consumers moving toward control of personal data. Social media self-measurement? (RBDR 6.8.2015)

Today: 1) Consumers may edging closer to insisting that they gain greater control of their personal information. 2) AdExchanger discusses the controversy between social media sites and media agencies over the sites’ self measurement.

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15-40% BETTER NP predictability; EU’s new STIFF search privacy rules (RBDR–5/15/2014)

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Today: 1) Facebook’s new Audience Insights tool for marketers may be turning its data into one of the market’s most comprehensive planning tools. 2) Notoriously unpredictable New Product forecasting can be improved by 15-40% by considering and tracking online buzz for a good period of time prior to the product launch. 3) Google and other search engines face a very stiff new privacy requirement in the European Union: following through on user requests to remove their personal dat from their search information.