Plans are for Atlassian to cut 500 jobs, which represents 5% of its global workforce, 120 of which will be jobs in Australia. The company called the move a rebalancing of priorities due to changing economic conditions.
Despite bans by numerous big firms when it comes to use of the controversial ChatGPT, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is encouraging its Australian employees to try out the chatbot. In a memo recommending its use, News Corp also alluded to forthcoming plans to explore 10 other high-value opportunities for AI.
FunP Innovation Group, the Taiwan-based digital advertising sales and advertising technology conglomerate has announced it has secured $3.12 million from Ennoconn Corporation. FunP said that it will use this capital injection to develop and roll out smart retail and cloud services solutions for the Indonesian market and other Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, under its business unit cacaFly, in a partnership with Ennoconn.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)