Convercent raises $25M to keep companies out of ethical quandaries

 Convercent, a company that provides ethics and compliance software to businesses, today announced that it has raised a $25 million funding round led by Rho Ventures. Additional investors include Sapphire Ventures and Tola Capital. The idea behind Convercent is to give businesses the tools to, in MBA-speak, “operationalize ethics.” In practice, this means that the companies mines… Read More

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‘Silicon Valley’ star Kumail Nanjiani warns ‘tech has the capacity to destroy us’

Starring in a comedy about tech isn’t always funny, one of HBO’s Silicon Valley stars explained in a cynical Twitter thread Wednesday.
Kumail Nanjiani, who plays software engineer Dinesh in the TV series, shared some thoughts on how tech companies do…

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