The combination of Cint and Lucid will take on Dynata more directly and accelerate the use of programmatic sampling. To stay relevant, the new company born out of this acquisition needs to focus on high-quality, verified sample — and researchers need to insist on it as well.
Bloomberg launches its NetZero Pathfinders platform to help companies play their part in dealing with climate change. This is a major step in advancing ESG solutions beyond reporting on the corporate impacts on the environment and toward how companies can save it.
Despite publicly supporting Plan S, China hasn’t taken bold action to implement OA policies. The ACM deal with CAS stands out in its scope and model, opening up new avenues for driving OA in China.
Legal solution providers backed by private equity continue to pose a disruption threat to legal information market players. To counter this trend, Outsell advises that established players leverage their content and data to provide self-serve legal tools that could add the differentiation needed.
Creating a tight connection between teaching and learning content and the LMS brings the market full circle, as it is reminiscent of earlier LMS/content provider partnership strategies. Will this be enough to continue the digital growth trajectory in higher education?
ZoomInfo’s expansion into Europe comes at a cost to regional data providers there. With so many people today changing jobs, contact data providers will increasingly scramble — focusing on data quality over quantity and watching and planning for other data partners’ possible fates will be key.
Government affairs professionals face growing demands to keep updated on new global legislation and regulation and respond to it. This is creating new demand for better legislative tracking tools, attracting new investors and driving some high company valuations.
Dataminr acquires Krizo to enable an AI-driven response to physical safety and security, cyber-threat detection, and reputational risk issues. AI is evolving quickly in GRC management from its use in risk identification to use in risk remediation.
Verisk is deploying AI to extrapolate ratings and unstructured data in Yelp reviews to help insurers improve evaluations of businesses. This key move by Verisk will include some challenges but could direct the greater insurance sector toward leveraging the wisdom of the crowd for deeper insights.
Announcements from Terminus and ActionIQ point to the growing importance of customer data platforms (CDPs) in the B2B sales and marketing intelligence space. This creates more convergence between today’s specialized Company, Contact, and Personal Information sector and the larger MarTech market.
The launch of the new Graduate Index survey in the UK highlights how measurements of the value and success of higher education are evolving to provide a more holistic, realistic, and valuable picture of graduates’ activities and perceptions.
Having first targeted journals, major European funders are now targeting research in book form to align with the principles of open research. The aim of cOAlition S and UKRI is nothing less than the reshaping of academic book publishing based on new open access policies.
Wolters Kluwer is the final big legal solution provider to exit the legal higher education market in the US. It’s now time to completely reinvent the law school learning experience.
By spinning off its cloud fax unit, J2 Global can now focus on its higher-growth business and get more aggressive with M&A. It’s reinventing the legacy Ziff Davis media brand while showing the importance of building an underlying platform.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fines App Annie for offering data to financial services that was constituted as insider trading. A sheriff now presides over the gold rush among information providers monetizing data on Wall Street.