Weekly DaaS Roundup for April 18, 2024

Top Story of the Week

The Economics of Data Businesses by Abraham Thomas

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News

The Data Business, At Three Resolutions by Byrne Hobart

The CFPB wants to rein in data brokers by Gaby Del Valle

Rivian’s new software update will help you avoid all the broken EV chargers by Andrew J. Hawkins

California is Losing Tech Jobs by Joseph Politano

Alternative Data Weekly by John Farrall
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Poe now has multi-bot chat by Adam D’Angelo

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report by Hana Yoo

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M&A and Funding

Prague startup Apify raises €2.8M for AI data mining by Cate Lawrence

Podcast Recommendation

Bill Magnuson, CEO of Braze $BRZE : Future of Mobile on World of DaaS podcast

World of DaaS channel passed our millionth (!!) viewer (and 11,000th subscriber) on YouTube: who knew there were so many data nerds?

Random Art of the Week

World of DaaS Summit is being held today (April 18) in DC.
participating are the CEOs of: Accuweather, Acxiom, Affinity Solutions, Airbyte, Alation, Anteraid, Atlan, Babel Street, Bombora, Bright Data, CareJourney, Chainalysis, Clearbit, Consumer Edge Research, Corelogic, CostQuest, Crossbeam, cvent, Cybersyn, Datavant, Enigma, Facteus, FiscalNote, G2, IPInfo, Kaggle, Lightbox, LightCast, M Science, MadHive, Moore, Pelmorex, People Data Labs, Peraton, Pipedream, Pipl, Placer AI, Planet Labs, Quad, Recorded Future, Samba, SafeGraph, SalesIntel, Simplifi, Simulmedia, Sojern, Spade, Verisk, YipitData, ZoomInfo, and more
this Summit is closed (with a 200-person waitlist) … we will do it again in 2025

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