Fivetran is also working to ease integration. They do it with pre-built data connectors that automatically adapt to changes in schemas and APIs. Fivetran isn’t specifically focused on customer data although that’s surely part of their offering. They just raised $100 million Series C, bringing their total to $163 million.
Enforcement began yesterday for the California Consumer Privacy Act, which makes this a good time to mention that personal data discovery vendor BigID and privacy management platform TrustArc have teamed up simplify compliance with CCPA and other regulations. So I just did.
Microsoft is also on the list of companies joining the #StopHateForProfit Facebook advertising boycott, along with HP, Ford, Honda, Unilever, BestBuy, Denny’s, Pepsi, Hersey, Clorox, and others. The coalition of civil rights organizations behind the boycott rejected adjustments offered by Facebook on Friday and listed demands for substantive changes in policies that foster extremism. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration illustrated its own commitment to free speech by suggesting that Facebook and other social platforms suppress messages from protesters. Oh, and Twitch temporarily suspended Trump from its platform. Busy day.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.