TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s why Satyen Sangani, a former Oracle VP, co-founded Redwood City–based Alation , a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build data search catalogs. Alation’s platform organizes data across disparate systems. “The most successful data intelligence platforms will be adopted by everyone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Founded by Yuri Frayman, Leon Kuperman and Laurent Gil in 2019, Cast AI — powered by AI, as the name implies — analyzes a company’s cloud usage to attempt to find the optimal cost-performance ratio. But he did say that Cast’s quarter-by-quarter revenue has grown by over 220% since the platform launched.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As Alexis Madrigal notes , condemning the platforms together comes “uncomfortably close to admitting that mobile communications pose fundamental challenges to societies across the world.” If you’re going to argue that social platforms are uniquely responsible for the fraying of society, you have to show your work.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Everyone agrees that Oracle and Walmart have bought a combined 20 percent of TikTok. Early Monday, Oracle issued a statement seeming to contradict that. Last week, I wrote that TikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over China. On Sunday, everyone involved took a well deserved rest.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Here’s Olivia Solon at NBC News : A group of about 25 experts from academia, civil rights, politics and journalism announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook’s content moderation decisions, policies and other platform issues in the run-up to the presidential election and beyond. Sara Fischer / Axios ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms this year has been their investment in removing misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. A piece of anti-vaccination agitprop catchily titled “Plandemic” racked up millions of views before it was spotted and taken down by the platforms in May.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The event, which was previously called Oculus Connect, gives the company an annual opportunity to discuss the latest advances in next-generation computing platforms. But a summer of escalated tensions with Apple have helped to make the case: if you want to control your own destiny, you have to own your platform.

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