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July 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Perhaps you saw Joanna Glasner's July 16th CrunchBase News story about the spike in cybersecurity funding. Cybersecurity was a hot area for venture investment in the first half of 2025, with total funding to the space hitting its highest level in three years... overall, we counted at least 11 rounds…
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Newly merged TechTarget and Informa this month laid off 10 percent of their employees. Check out the euphemism in the 8-K: "[the] net reduction [will be] up to approximately 10% of the Company’s current global colleague base." That just beats all, doesn't it?
July 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Using NLP software, Business Insider assesses how readers will react to its content emotionally, and then sells advertising based on that info. For example, an advertiser can choose to advertise against a story (or video) that makes you feel good or optimistic or pessimistic. This is where content…
July 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
An avalanche of fake news sites threatens the viability of the web itself. You may need a subscription to read this article, but this publication is definitely worth the money for a subscription.
July 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The former TC star reporter picked a good place to go. Here's his latest.
July 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here's a cheat sheet comprising 11 reporters who recently covered a cybersecurity survey as news. We carried over three targets from our Sept. 2022 cheat sheet; all other names are new.
July 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When Axios prompted ChatGPT for basic background research on Wealthfront's confidential IPO filing last week, the bot confidently detailed a Wealthfront investor deck. The problem? It appears to be entirely made up.
June 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Indy media business experts Brian Morrissey and Jacob Cohen Donnelly have built two very successful businesses with both newsletters and face-to-face events. Axios has noticed this and has decided to get into the event space focusing on the economics of publishing, which of course is a topic close…
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here's a cheat sheet with a dozen reporters who have covered the encroachment of AI into the science of search. Three reporters are from Forbes, so that promises good potential reach.
It's unclear many subscribers have clients who directly care about this topic. This just may be as interesting for…
June 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is a great way to monetize the archives.
June 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
ServiceNow has launched a special report on Fortune to jumpstart strategic spending on AI, illustrating workarounds for implementation problems, and otherwise illuminating the path to integrating AI into software operations. This is a branding exercise, of course, and perhaps is a sign that earned…
June 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The guy also is the full-time "chairman" of Bally and Sassoon. On top of that, he's also chairman of Foundry and 13 other companies. Well, 14, if you count his own private equity firm. How much time will he put into TC, understanding the subtleties of tech edit?
June 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here are the details -- Choose from 5 categories and 30+ subcategories. The awards are being promoted by Bhava Communications, an SWMS subscriber.
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Julie opens up to host Dave Reddy.. it's a good listen. BVM is a SWMS subscriber.
June 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Media analyst Brian Morrissey predicts that many smaller trade publishers and consumer publishers may one day just ditch readers altogether and simply publish to LLMs under contract and make their money that way. It's a lot simpler than trying to sell ads to a dwindling reader base.
June 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Axios is hiring a senior tech reporter to cover AI. How long will it take for the "laid-off" to land on their feet? It is already happening.
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
From Crunchbase News: Neuralink’s recent $650 million raise is by far the largest for a neural interface startup on record, but comes as funding to neuroscience startups overall is set to rise sharply this year. All told, funding to the broader category of neuroscience startups totaled $896…
June 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
From the excellent The Rundown AI newsletter: The future of video content creation is increasingly looking camera-less — with this latest round of upgrades taking avatars from more robotic talking heads to full-fledged actors with more granular control over motion and expressiveness. Time to get a…
May 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The BI culture over the years has been aloof to vendors and definitely PR. Now that many of those affected could use a friend or two, here's hoping they get the lift they need. Here is the message from BI CEO Barbara Peng.
May 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here's the detail.