Safety, trust, and customer experience are crucial for success Merkle, dentsu’s leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company, launched its global B2B Superpowers Index; the guide for brands endeavouring to deliver exceptional B2B experiences and increase their customer base. The report was developed by Merkle B2B, which provides an integrated…
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$US50M Anthemis’ female innovators lab fund
The largest early-stage Fintech fund dedicated to women Anthemis, a specialist asset manager that creates value from driving financial systems change, today announced additional investments from institutions including Visa and BMO for its Female Innovators Lab (FIL) Fund. Anchored by Barclays, with investment from Aviva, the fund now totals $US50 million, making it the largest early-stage fintech…
Read MoreUL solutions and Korea’s ministry of SMEs collab
The collaboration will support South Korean start-ups UL Solutions, a global leader in applied safety science, and Korea’s Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Start-ups (MSS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) formalizing a collaboration to support market access readiness for promising Korean start-ups in new industries, including new mobility.…
Read MoreAussies expecting a four-day work week
This follows news from the Australian Services Union There is growing optimism among Australian professionals about the reality of a four-day working week. According to a poll of almost 42,000 professionals by recruitment and workforce solutions specialists Hays, 40 per cent of respondents believe the four-day work week could become a reality within the…
Read MoreBuilding cyber hygiene capacity in Asia
Cybersecurity is a global issue A system or network vulnerability exploited on the other side of the world can quickly cause implications across geographical boundaries, directly impacting the critical infrastructure Americans rely on for their way of life. For this reason, the CISA Global Strategy calls for capacity building with our international…
Read MoreF5’s latest Curve of Convenience 2023 report
Data security taking a back seat with APAC consumers F5’s latest report Curve of Convenience 2023 Report: The Pursuit of APIs has revealed that 79 percent of Asia Pacific consumers are willing to grant companies access to their data in exchange for better utility and customer experience, with 96 per cent percent willing to…
Read MoreDigital-native business tech spending from 2022-2026
Digital-native businesses are defined by their use of new and emerging technologies According to a recent IDC Market Forecast titled Asia/Pacific DNB Tech Spending Opportunity Forecast, 2022–2026, Asia/Pacific DNB tech spending is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 20.8 per cent and reach $US128.9 billion by 2026. IDC expects Asia/Pacific…
Read MoreAdopting behavioural biometrics to counter scam attacks
Businesses need a multi-layered set of risk solutions LexisNexis Risk Solutions published a white paper produced by Aite-Novarica exploring the challenges in addressing sophisticated fraud threats following increased digital adoption and consumers’ high expectations for online transactions. The white paper, Multifaceted Fraud Attacks: Behavioural Biometrics as a Defensive Tool, explains that…
Read MoreEvent-driven architecture delivers exponential ROI
Multiple sectors see ROI ramp up as something they can embrace Solace, the leading enabler of event-driven architecture (EDA) for real-time enterprises, today announced the release of the IDC Infobrief, sponsored by Solace, Getting in Sync: Unlocking the Exponential Business Value of Real-Time Event-Driven Data Flows. The Infobrief is based…
Read MoreDismissal of lawsuit initiated by SAS against Altair
This legal milestone follows Altair’s acquisition of World Programming in 2021 Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Altair (World Programming) by affirming the dismissal of SAS Institute’s 2018 Texas lawsuit against World…
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