It sometimes feels that content moderation is like the weather: subject of much talk but little action.  Cinder aims to change that with a unified platform that will let moderation teams operate more efficiently than the usual spreadsheets, queries, and Word docs.  The company has raised $14 million to date.

Salesforce has released the Genie Customer Data Cloud, essentially an enterprise-wide CDP that serves data to all Salesforce products.  The Salesforce CDP still exists; it uses the same infrastructure but is limited to marketing.  They tout connectors with external systems, including no-copy data exchange with Snowflake, but key parts of that are not yet delivered.

Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.