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Weekly DaaS Roundup for Feb 8, 2024
the trusted news feed on Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) companies and products
Top Story of the Week
Were We Wrong About the Value of First-Party Data? by James Hercher, AdExchanger
How valuable is first-party data?
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News
Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot by Anna Nicolaou, Financial Times
Will we see AI companies get exclusive rights to content?
Website Change Detection: Challenges and Best Practices for Web Scraping Pipelines by Web Scraping Club
The art and science of crawling the web.
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ by Heather Chen and Kathleen Magramo, CNN
Deep fakes will certainly accelerate phishing attacks.
Why Credit Card Data still makes money by Alex Izydorczyk, CEO of Cybersyn
Credit card data is still one of the most valuable datasets ... though very hard to get outside the US.
Cyber Command, NSA usher in Haugh as new chief by Martin Matishak, The Record
After nearly six years, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone on Friday handed over the reins to U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh assumes the dual-role.
Taylor Swift has bad blood with student tracking celebrity flights via public info by Justine Calma, The Verge
All data newsletters must mention Taylor Swift.
World of DaaS Summit will be held on 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, H1, 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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Important Tweets
More good economic news: Consumer Sentiment surged in December and January.
"Over the last 2 months, sentiment has climbed a cumulative 29%, the largest two-month increase since 1991."
Why? Americans are really starting to feel strong wage gains and cooling inflation
— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong)
Feb 2, 2024
Random Art of the Week
prompt: hackers fighting over data in comic book style
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