A belated Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers in the States. And a Happy Friday to the rest of the world.

This month we have a potluck of updates including: another data vendor restructuring, movements in Japanese alt data, consumer data breaches, and our usual traction round-up.

For the Material Girls

If you haven’t seen it already, this week’s intelligence piece coincides nicely with Black Friday, by introducing the various forms of public data you can acquire from Amazon.com and the various things that an investor can do with it.