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Microsoft has launched a 10-week immersive program to drive innovation in India and to help B2B and B2C startups from diverse industries that are leveraging AI. The initiative is supported by TiE Mumbai and launches in November.

Salsify, the Commerce Experience Management platform has acquired SKUvantage to help retailers, distributors, and manufacturers deliver engaging digital product content to buyers, with less time, cost, and effort.

The partnership sees Lacework data available in the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling organisations to analyse and report on risk and threats across their cloud and container environments.

Housing Industry Association (HIA), the largest residential building organisation in Australia, has partnered with award-winning Platinum Sitecore Implementation Partner, Switch, to overhaul its suite of web-based content platforms and provide a connected digital experience to its 20,000+ member businesses across the country.

Malaysia’s Sunway Malls has unveiled its eCommerce platform, SunwayeMall.com, as part of its strategic digitalisation effort to complete its physical and digital mall presence after. The eCommerce platform is set to launch on 27 October and will complement its current combined 4.5 million square feet of physical retail space of seven malls.

Understanding that health and digitalization are the foundation of the society and economy, Grab, together with telco EMTEK and e-commerce Bukalapak, has recently launched an accelerator program called, ‘City of the Future’, aimed at targeting 10,000 MSMEs in small cities throughout Indonesia and help them on vaccination, adoption of digital platforms, and empowerment through training and mentoring for business development.

The leader in consumer and market intelligence and analytical and consulting services – today announced an expanded partnership with BrandTotal, the leading social competitive intelligence and brand analytics platform. This partnership offers a powerful new solution for Mexican companies: the availability of real-time market intelligence for paid social media advertising.

Hash, a payment infrastructure fintech, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round co-led by QED Investors and Kaszek. The raise comes just six months after the Brazilian startup raised $15 million in Series B financing led by Alexandria, Virginia-based QED, and brings its total raised to nearly $59 million since its 2017 inception. Endeavor Scale-Up Ventures also put money in the round.

Influencer marketing is on an upswing worldwide, with TAM projections revealed by The Influencer Marketing Hub indicating that the sector is expected to grow to $14 billion this year, with nearly half of marketers saying they are spending more than 20% of their budget on influencer marketing. Influency.me’s home market of Brazil is following this market trend. This is shown by Influency.me’s earnings, which grew by 145% over the last 12 months.

Mygarage.africa, an online platform is tackling the challenges of leasing public transportation busses in Nigeria by digitising the entire value chain in this market, from the way owners and verified drivers connect, to how the vehicles are maintained and rental fees collected.

Nigerian auto-tech startup Autochek has raised a US$13.1 million seed funding round to bolster its core auto loan processing platform and deepen its footprint in West Africa. Autochek aims to build digital solutions that will enhance and enable a seamless and safe automotive commerce experience across Africa, starting with Nigeria and Ghana.

CDP Public Cloud Regional Control Plane is now available in Australia and Europe. This addition will extend CDP Hybrid capabilities to customers in industries with strict data protection requirements by allowing them to govern their data entirely in-region.