Many apps are selling location data despite an Apple crackdown against it, a report says. They are using a simple workaround, selling the data to brokers directly rather than via an SDK. 

Data management has been a wild west for two decades. But companies have to change their policies due to consumer mistrust, government action and competition for customers. 

Pantone Color Libraries will no longer appear in Adobe Creative Cloud apps. Here’s an exploration of what happened and how marketers can compensate.  

A former Apple Mail engineer has created a native Gmail app for macOS called Mimestream. Here is an analysis of what it can do.   

Houzz Inc. has added an email marketing tool to its Houzz Pro services. The new capability allows home remodeling and design pros to create and send newsletters, updates and other communications, using custom templates. 

Email produces the higher ROI, but social media is better at generating engagement for small businesses. Here is an analysis of how the two channels stack up for SMBs. 

Slack is experiencing outages, with some users saying they can’t send messages. The company says it is working to resolve the issue.   

It’s one thing to ignore a promotional email or text, quite another to not reply to a colleague or friend. Here is a discussion of why it’s sometimes necessary to “triage” incoming messages. 

Companies have been hit with some massive penalties since GDPR was implemented in 2018. Here are the top five GDPR fines. 

Small businesses can benefit by using email without pouring extravagant resources into it. But they need a plan. Here are the top five best email marketing practices for SMBs.