As activist investors pressure Salesforce, the company is exploring cost-cutting options. Today, Insider reported that the company is implementing stricter engineering performance measurements, with some salespeople being pressured to quit or adopt harsh performance policies. Performance reviews based on engineers’ code output, a flawed way to measure engineering productivity, encourage …

AI photo apps: over? AI-powered photo apps like Lensa AI’s “magic avatars” and others that promise to turn text into images have gone viral on the App Store in recent months. Apptopia data shows consumer interest in AI photo apps has fallen as quickly as it rose. The firm tracked …

Some startups are defying the trend of scarcer capital. Descope, a “developer-first” authentication and user management platform, raised $53 million in seed funding today. Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, TechAviv, J Ventures, Cerca, Unusual Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, and CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Microsoft chairman …

Richard Socher, the founder of You.com, is aware that his business has always been a David battling Google and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft for supremacy in the search market. He likes to point out that his business developed search based on generative AI in December, well in advance of …

Twitter announced earlier this month that it would restrict free use of its API, the programming interface that enables developers to communicate with Twitter. While the change undoubtedly has an impact on startups and independent developers who are creating tools to make the platform entertaining and safe, it also poses …

Google announced the launch of the first Beta for its “Privacy Sandbox” adtech stack proposal, which aims to iterate how ad tracking, targeting, and reporting is done so it appears less creepy for individual users while maintaining an interest-based, behavioral targeting capability on web users’ eyeballs. Google has started letting …

After a brief beta period that began in December of last year, GitHub today announced that Copilot for Business, the $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool, is now generally available. License management, organization-wide policy management, and more privacy features are all added by Copilot for Business. Before, …

In order to address a vulnerability that hackers were actively using to compromise Apple devices, Apple on Monday released a new version of the operating systems for the iPhone and iPad. Apple stated that it “is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited” on the …

Microsoft has confirmed that it is finally killing off Yammer, the business social network it bought for $1.2 billion more than ten years ago. Yammer’s founding team was based in San Francisco, and co-founder David Sacks officially launched the company at a TechCrunch startup event in 2008. Before Microsoft intervened …

According to a person familiar with the situation, India’s IT Ministry has lifted the ban on seven well-known lending apps, including PayU’s LazyPay, Kissht, KreditBee, and Indiabulls Home Loans. This is welcome relief for the fintech sector, which has recently been subject to intense scrutiny. According to a copy of …