There’s another round of funding for an artificial intelligence startup in Asia that’s focused on e-commerce: Singapore-based ViSenze has announced a $10.5 million Series B raise. The startup was spun out of the National University of Singapore more than […]
Snapchat Discover is rolling out in France, marking the content hub’s first foray into a non-Anglophone market. Vice Media, Tastemade and Cosmopolitan, along with five French media brands, are partnering with Snapchat for the launch. […]
Google notes election-related searches in 2016 have increased 240% over a similar time frame for the 2012 cycle. The data goes in-depth with national search interest, state-by-state interest, trending queries, issue searches, voter registration searches […]
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England voted unanimously Thursday to hold rates at 0.25% as August economic data were better than expected with consumer price inflation holding steady. Rates are expected to […]
Potential fluctuation in interest rates when bank profit might be depressed threatens the financial system, according to the Japanese Financial Services Agency. The regulator also expresses alarm at accelerating inflow to the property market, driven […]
Spotify has outpaced Apple Music over the past five months, adding 10 million subscribers to hit the 40 million mark. That compares favorably with Apple Music’s 17 million subscribers, up 4 million since April. 9to5Mac […]
Netflix has made a number of moves in order to set itself up for more growth. Be it content deals with Disney (NYSE:DIS), integration with Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced in early July, or the company’s expansion […]
Companies in China are accelerating their investment in offshore markets this year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. For the first eight months of this year, nonfinancial outbound direct investment posted a 53.5% year-on-year increase, […]
MasterCard will soon use biometrics to verify card-not-present transactions at merchants and banks, which have seen an increase in online fraud since the advent of EMV cards. The software uses fingerprint and facial recognition to […]
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