Oxylabs Takes First Outside Money Ever: $130M From Warburg Pincus at $3.6B
After a decade of bootstrapping, Vilnius-based web-scraping and proxy infrastructure firm Oxylabs accepted its first external investment on July 2026…
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Cross-beat data-industry correspondent. Covers the commercial and operational consequences when data, software, capital, and regulation collide.
01net’s Spotfire-Snowflake ‘Push Compute’ Item Is a Headline, No Details
01net published a story on August 5, 2026 titled "Spotfire Launches Push Compute on Snowflake AI Data Cloud," but the…
Perceptron Raises $6.5M to Sell Crypto-Crowd Data to AI Firms
Dubai-based Perceptron closed a $6.5 million strategic round on July 30, 2026, from Web3 investors including Sigma Capital, QCP Capital…
LSEG Lists 100-Trillion-Row Tick History Database on Databricks
LSEG said July 31, 2026 it will distribute its 30-year, 80+ petabyte Tick History database through Databricks Marketplace via the…
Anthropic’s Project Panama Turns Backlist Books Into AI Training Data — Then Pulp
A Dutch bookseller's 3,001-title order exposed a widening trade in which AI firms buy used books by the thousand, scan…
PubMatic-Optable Agentic Deals Hit 30 Campaigns, Half One Integration
PubMatic's new buyer agent and Optable's sell-side data agent have together powered roughly half of the roughly 30 agentic programmatic…
Australia Raises Meta, Google News Levy to 2.5% of Ad Revenue
Canberra's revised News Bargaining Incentive, announced August 3, 2026, raises the levy on Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn from 2.25%…
FCA Says New Rules Will “Simplify” UK Transaction Reporting
The UK Financial Conduct Authority describes incoming changes to transaction reporting obligations as "smarter, simpler and more proportionate," per a…
Munich Court Rules Suno Infringed Copyright — Ruling Isn’t Final Yet
Germany's GEMA won a copyright infringement verdict against AI music platform Suno at Munich Regional Court on July 31, 2026,…
TA Associates Takes Undisclosed Stake in Private Credit Vendor Oxane
Oxane Partners, which builds data and reporting infrastructure for private credit funds, announced a "strategic growth investment" from PE firm…