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Apple Acquires U.K.-Based Digital Marketing Startup DataTiger

Apple bought several companies in recent years, including Shazam music-recognition app, Texture magazine subscription service.

Apple Acquires U.K.-Based Digital Marketing Startup DataTiger
The Apple Inc. logo is displayed at one of the company’s stores in Hong Kong, China. (Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. acquired startup DataTiger in a move that could boost the company’s digital marketing and make it more relevant to customers.

The U.K.-based startup says its technology can "optimize the marketing journeys" of customers by using data to more accurately send materials to consumers as well as push notifications. On his LinkedIn profile, DataTiger Chief Executive Officer Philipp Mohr said his firm wants to "bring the stale era of ‘email-list thinking’ and slow, campaign-based marketing to an end."

A regulatory filing in December shows that Apple now controls Operatedata Ltd., the legal name of DataTiger. An Apple spokesman didn’t respond to requests for comment and an email sent to DataTiger wasn’t returned.

Apple uses several forms of digital marketing, such as emails to tout new products and push notifications to encourage users to subscribe to services like Apple Music.

It bought several other companies in recent years, including the Shazam music-recognition app, the Texture magazine subscription service, and Akonia Holographics, which makes technology for augmented-reality glasses.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Gurman in San Francisco at mgurman1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net, Alistair Barr, Andrew Pollack

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