Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
Neon, which pays users to record their phone calls and sells that audio data to AI companies for training, becomes the #2 social app on the US App Store
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably …
The data industry is consolidating, with Databricks acquiring Neon for $1B and Salesforce acquiring Informatica for $8B, as companies want quality data for AI
But There's a Bigger Plot Twist
Databricks agrees to acquire cloud database startup Neon for ~$1B, set to close in Databricks' Q2 2025; Neon's platform is based on the open-source PostgreSQL
The deal is aimed at making it easier for businesses to build artificial intelligence agents with their own data, Databricks CEO says
Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, which makes a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for ~$1B
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Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil with nearly 2M accounts, has raised $94M in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic
Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil, has reportedly raised $94 million in funding in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic …
Brazil-based digital banking startup Neon raises $22M Series A from Propel, Quona Capital, Omidyar Network, and others, and says it has 600K+ users
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Opera launches Neon, an experimental browser for Windows and Mac that aims to showcase its vision for the future of the web
Browsers have gotten boring. After a flurry of innovation, especially around the time Google launched Chrome, things slowed down over the last few years.