NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 28, 2026--
Dataplor, the leader in high-quality, global location intelligence, today announced a major evolution of its Global Platform, now built around agentic AI. Serving industries that span commercial real estate, retail, financial services, quick service restaurants, consumer packaged goods, third-party logistics, mapping, and advertising, users can ask a question in plain language and get an immediate answer about any market in the world. The platform turns Dataplor's dataset of more than 370 million places and 15,000 brands across 250 countries and territories into a conversation, so companies can explore sectors, compare brand performance, and identify opportunities without the need for deep technical expertise.
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Beyond the AI chat functionality, teams can navigate an interactive global map and export the underlying data. They can define a trade area and see the points of interest, foot traffic, and competitive dynamics that shape its performance. From simple queries to deep research, the AI delivers answers strategists and operators need for better business decisions.
"Organizations expanding globally still bump up against the same limitations: minimal international coverage, inconsistent data quality, fragmented sources, and tools that demand technical skills before they return any sort of actionable insight," said Geoff Michener, CEO of Dataplor. "Our revitalized Global Platform removes that friction. Dataplor’s customers can ask it anything and get a clear, definitive answer with no technical team required. That changes the velocity and the confidence with which organizations can make strategic growth recommendations."
"Getting an answer out of location data used to take exports, dashboards, and specialized analysts," said Emily Lisle, Head of Product at Dataplor. "We rebuilt the Global Platform to democratize the geolocation experience. Regardless of technical depth, teams can type a question, get an answer, and export the raw data behind it with a click. No workflows or waiting on data teams."
For more information, contact contact@dataplor.com.
About Dataplor
Dataplor is a leading provider of global location intelligence, telling the story of places and how the world interacts with them. Spanning more than 370 million places and 15,000 global brands across 250+ countries and territories, the company delivers highly accurate, consistently structured data on business activity, including openings and closures, foot traffic, brand attributes, polygons, and trade area intelligence. This data is accessible as a comprehensive global dataset for seamless system integration or through an intuitive platform, turning global complexity into clear, actionable insight. To learn more or see Dataplor in action, visit dataplor.com.
Dataplor Debuts First Global AI-Powered Geolocation Platform, Turning Location Data Into a Conversation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ confidence in the economy fell this month as gas prices resumed their climb after the U.S. and Iran stepped up their fighting.
The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 90.8 in July from 92.2 in June. That's essentially the same tepid range its been in since the beginning of the year. In late 2024 and early 2025 the readings were well above 100.
Consumer attitudes had improved modestly in June as gas prices came down to around $3.70 a gallon from more than $4.50 a gallon in late April and early May. But as fighting in the Middle East escalated, the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. started to rise again. On Tuesday it was $4.10, according to the auto club AAA.
After being attacked by the U.S. and Israel in late February, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil travels, causing a spike in gas prices. That accelerated inflation, causing Americans’ inflation-adjusted incomes to decline.
Americans remain soured on the economy after five years of elevated inflation, potentially posing a risk to President Donald Trump and Republicans in the midterm elections, which are now less than 100 days away.
Trump continues to blame inflation on his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden. Yet inflation has risen since Trump’s inauguration last year, to 3.5% from 3% in January 2025. It jumped even further after the Iran war began Feb. 28, when it was just 2.4%.
Write-in responses to the survey, which were collected from July 1 to July 22, remained pessimistic. The Board said references to gas prices were down slightly but remained elevated. Respondents' mention of food and grocery prices increased.
Government data shows that buying food to bring home has gotten 33% more expensive since the beginning of 2019. To navigate those higher prices, Americans have turned to couponing, comparison shopping and cutting back on favorite foods as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century.
Beef epitomizes out-of-control grocery prices for many Americans. The price of a pound of ground beef reached $6.82 in June — 79% more than at the beginning of 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
References to jobs and unemployment picked up slightly this month and views of the current job market fell. Expectations of how the labor market will be six months going forward improved slightly, but remained in negative territory.
U.S. employers slowed hiring last month and added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month’s total. The unemployment rate declined to a low 4.2% from 4.3% in May, though the drop mostly occurred because many people out of work gave up looking and were no longer counted as unemployed.
The number of consumers who mentioned war and geopolitics decreased this month, but the Board suspects that recent escalation in fighting between Iran and the U.S. could cause those mentions to rise in the next survey.
FILE - Cars line up at the pumps of a Gulf Oil station on the Massachusetts Turnpike near Boston, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Ada Torres holds tomatoes while shopping for produce, Thursday, July 2, 2026, in Cleveland, Texas, about 45 miles northeast of Houston. (Sandy Guatibonza/La Esquina TX via AP)
