Microsoft and Grab, the on-demand transportation, mobile payments, and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced Monday (October 9) a strategic partnership in which Grab will tap Microsoft’s machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. In a press release, the companies said that in the first step of the partnership Grab will adopt Microsoft’s Azure as […]
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Google is readying an appeal of the European Union’s record €4.34bn fine, which it was slapped with in July over its Android mobile operating system. According to the Financial Times, Google has until Wednesday (October 10) to file an appeal with the European Court of Justice against the European Union decision which was meted out […]
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Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank Group International recently led a funding round for HEED – a new consumer platform that uses IoT analytics and AI to transform sports and entertainment experience. The round raised $35 million which will be used to strengthen the company’s expansion as it ties up with sports clubs and leagues across […]
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S. Korea’s mobile giant Kakao Corp’s proprietary blockchain platform Klaytn has entered its testnet phase with selected partners. South Korea mobile messaging giant Kakao Corp. unveiled the testnet version of its new blockchain platform Monday, October 8, ahead of a formal launch in Q1 2019, local media outlet Korea Herald reports. The platform, dubbed Klaytn, […]
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The Wall Street Journal creates, then gets rid of, its own cryptocurrency and the Petro may be ready for public sale in November. Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, […]
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One of the new realities of augmented reality is this: the technology is attracting more investment from China than from sources in North America. This trend happens as activity around AR heats up, with major players in the digital economy apparently positioning themselves to profit as the retail-friendly tech move every closer to mainstream popularity. […]
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sponsored The company says customer fiat assets are stored safely and securely with a third party bank trust custodian. MaiCoin, the largest one stop digital asset platform provider in Taiwan, recently launched it’s MAX Exchange. The exchange initially started by offering Taiwan Dollar (TWD) to crypto pairs and it currently lists 16 crypto/TWD pairs. As […]
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Facebook-owned Instagram reportedly is testing a new privacy setting that could lead to more targeted ads directed at consumers. The new privacy setting would enable Instagram to share users’ location history with Facebook. According to TechCrunch, that “means your exact GPS coordinates collected by Instagram, even when you’re not using the app, would help Facebook […]
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This week, Pandora launched analytics tools for advertisers to use on its audio platform. The move represents another step in the platform’s ascendancy to a major platform for advertisers. It’s about time. Prior to this week, the streaming audio platform offered minimal online analytics to its advertisers, relying on offline impact and incremental visitation lift […]
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Consumers know what they want — and how they want to pay for it. They want to use the payment methods with which they’re accustomed. This puts pressure on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to find ways to accept those methods in a mobile POS format or risk losing a sale. Businesses must also handle […]
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