Experian acquires Japanese email marketing company

Experian, a global information and financial services company, has taken a major stake in a Japanese email marketing service provider.

The visitors of this blog probably know Experian Marketing Services (Experian does more than just marketing), a provider of customer targeting and engagement services and owner of well-known ESP CheetahMail (that ranked high in Forrester’s ESP report I mentioned a few times over the last weeks).

In a press release, Experian says it has taken an 88.5% stake in the Japanese company that goes by the name A-Care Systems. The exact amount of the deal has not been disclosed.

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Bit.ly Pro: custom URLs and cross-channel content distribution dashboard for Twitter

In December so many companies have been launching their own URL shorteners (shall I mention Google?) that I forgot to follow the existing ones.

Take bit.ly for example. Maybe you already know it but the people at bit.ly recently launched bit.ly Pro mid December.

What does this professional version offer?

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