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Twilio Announces 5% Staff Cut, Cites Over-Investment in Segment CDP

Twilio is making its third layoff in fifteen months, a 5% cut that will remove about 300 people from the payroll. CEO Jeff Lawson blamed higher spending on go-to-market roles for the Segment CDP, which has not produced the expected results. Some cuts will also reduce sales spending on the Flex cloud-based contact center.

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Nielsen Gracenote Helps Auto Makers Personalize User Entertainment

December 6, 2023

No device is more mobile than an automobile.  Nielsen Gracenote is helping auto makers offer personalized entertainment with Nexus Auto, which uses Gracenote to translate metadata from different platforms, apps, and media types into a common language, making it easier to deliver content that matches user interests.  Nielsen positions this as helping auto makers build brand loyalty through a better experience, but you can bet there’s an advertising angle as well.

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More People Downloading Instagram Threads Than X/Twitter

December 5, 2023

Elon Musk is doing a perfectly fine job of destroying X/Twitter without outside help.  But it’s still worth noting that Meta’s intended alternative, Instagram Threads, has reportedly been downloaded more times than X/Twitter since September with a particular jump at the end of November.  Threads is steadily adding new features and will reportedly launch an EU version that will comply with EU privacy regulations.

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Landmark ‘Fair Use’ Ruling in Thompson Reuters AI Copyright Case

February 13, 2025

A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.

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