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...Others, such as credit rating agency Experian and Acxiom use demographic, sociographic, lifestyle, cultural, mortgage and property data to categorise individuals....
...Privacy International, the campaign group, filed a series of complaints to the British, Irish and French data regulators on Thursday against data broker Acxiom, software giant Oracle, credit rating agencies...
...“Acxiom is, after all, a data refinery,” Scott Howe, Acxiom’s chief executive, said during a recent conference call....
...Acxiom said that it was not changing how it sold data about its “Financially Challenged” group in light of the Senate investigation....
...He still describes his experience on the board of data mining company Acxiom in the last decade as “galvanising . . . they didn’t trust me and it took four years to get a lot of change done”....
...Acxiom recently launched a new product that offers marketers the chance to exploit the most detailed consumer profiles ever....
...Acxiom, Experian and Epsilon refused to disclose specific business practices in the investigation, including sources and customers for their data....
...Phil Mui, Acxiom’s chief technology officer, told the Financial Times: “We are making big marketing data truly actionable.” To opt out of the targeting, a person can visit Acxiom’s website....
...Acxiom, one of the largest consumer data brokers, is in the midst of developing a new product that would allow marketers to target consumers with messages across multiple devices – all without using a cookie...
...Mr Howe at Acxiom said. “We are trying to be incredibly transparent . . . you can’t build trust if you are holding stuff back.”...
...Acxiom, a US data company, is planning to sell businesses “master profiles” of consumers....
...Acxiom expects that service to be available as early as this summer....
...New York-listed Acxiom, one of the biggest companies in the industry, is gradually shifting its business to provide more analytics beyond basic data gathering....
...Acxiom said it was “not on the radar now” for people to be able to completely delete their profiles....
...Acxiom is preparing to step out of the shadows....
...Some of the world’s largest data brokers, including Acxiom, Experian and Equifax, are being called to Washington on Thursday to participate in a congressional inquiry about how their multi-billion-dollar...
...From Sallie Mae, to Harman International and Acxiom, a string of private equity deals signed in early 2007 have unravelled....
...There is the $26bn buy-out of Sallie Mae, a large student lender; the $8bn acquisition of Harman International, a high-end electronics manufacturer by KKR and Goldman Sachs; and Acxiom, a technology group...
...The share price punishment is in part a consequence of the decision to list Experian in London, rather than New York, home to peers such as Equifax, Fair Isaac and Acxiom....
...Other transactions, such as the $2.5bn purchase of Acxiom, the technology group, by ValueAct Capital and Silver Lake Partners, and the $8bn sale of Harman International, the high-end audio systems group,...
...Acxiom, the data management company, agreed to be taken over on Wednesday for $2.24bn by two private equity firms....
...Shares in the credit checking group rose 3.9 per cent to 598½p after a US rival called Acxiom was taken private in a $3bn cash deal....
...Acxiom agreed to a $2.24bn buy-out from private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and ValueAct Capital. Shares in the information technology company gained 13.4 per cent to $27.78 this week ....
...In other deal news, Acxiom agreed to a $2.24bn buy-out from private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and ValueAct Capital. Shares in the information technology company rose 18.1 per cent to $27.95....
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