April 2023

The Download: OpenAI’s data disaster, and screens in schools

April 19, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy, and a slew of…

Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync

April 19, 2023

Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. But the reality is more complex. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated during the pandemic — apps now need to store and process data in more places, from the […]

Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Accounting automation startup Trullion lands $15M investment

April 19, 2023

Isaac Heller and Amir Boldo spent over ten years in finance across private equity-backed and pre-IPO companies. At these firms, they dealt with CFOs who wanted to save money by consolidating manual processes and reducing the cost of audits — in part by modernizing their sprawling software tooling. It’s their experiences with CFOs that led […]

Accounting automation startup Trullion lands $15M investment by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

4,200 = New Bull Market?

April 19, 2023
Many investors are pointing to the levels north of 4,200 for the S&P 500 (SPY) as the promised land. That’s because it would represent a 20% increase from the October…

Amazon tops LinkedIn’s list of best places to work, jobseeker priorities shift to workplace culture

April 19, 2023

There have been more than 171,000 people in the tech industry laid off so far this year, according to data tracked by layoffs.fyi, but those looking for work are not in a ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ mindset. According to new data from LinkedIn, people are gravitating to workplaces that align with their values, and their […]

Amazon tops LinkedIn’s list of best places to work, jobseeker priorities shift to workplace culture by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Google offers billing choice for UK Play Store devs in bid to settle antitrust prone

April 19, 2023

Google has proposed letting developers offering apps through its UK Play mobile app store to have the option to use alternative payment processors for in-app transactions, rather than being locked to its own billing system (GPB), following an antitrust intervention by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). “Google’s proposed commitments would give app developers […]

Google offers billing choice for UK Play Store devs in bid to settle antitrust prone by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it

April 19, 2023
OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy and a slew of investigations in other EU countries. If it fails, it could face hefty fines, be forced to delete data, or even be banned.  But experts have told MIT Technology Review that it will…