Finally, a massive study from Mozilla on the health of the Internet. It reports growing focus on all our favorite worries – privacy, AI, and big tech – and adds Internet censorship and biometric abuse to the mix. Mozilla says the worrying is good because it may lead to improvements. Worth reading.
SalesLoft, which uses AI to help salespeople know what to say to their clients, has raised a $70 million Series D, brining total funding to $145.7 million. A little reminder that there’s life, and funding, outside of martech.
What’s that, you don’t like someone watching your every mouse twitch? Then privacy-focused browser Brave may be more your cup of tea. They already block most standard display ads and have now launched a program that lets users select which ads to view and get rewarded with blockchain tokens (of course). Ads are targeted based on behavior profiles that are stored on the user’s computer and never shared with the advertiser. It’s like a crazy alternate universe where privacy came first.
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.