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Online video adtech startup Pancast has officially launched in Southeast Asia, marking it with its first office in Indonesia. In addition, Pancast has also appointed Miranti Herwinda as the startup’s country manager in Indonesia.

The Asia eCommerce Awards is back for its fourth year to recognise and reward excellence for both brands, eRetailers and agencies in their eCommerce efforts across Southeast Asia, South Asia and ANZ regions.

CoinsPaid, the world’s second-largest crypto processing company cooperating with SEPA and SWIFT, is ready to enter the booming LATAM market, home to the world’s biggest number of crypto users.

Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-Service company, released the results of a new survey exploring the adoption of digital finance tools and eCommerce in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil.

Nigeria’s Metro Africa Xpress (MAX), a vehicle subscription platform for low-to-zero emission vehicles, has raised US$31 million in the first close of a Series B funding round, with further closes expected in the next few weeks.

Kenyan startup Wowzi has raised a total of US$3.2 million across pre-seed and seed funding rounds to help it scale its influencer marketing platform across the continent.

South African car subscription startup Planet42 has raised US$30 million in debt and equity funding to drive its international expansion, with its first cars already on the road in Mexico as it aims to provide a total of one million cars worldwide by 2025.

Future Retail Ltd (FRL) is likely to approach various courts and tribunals including the Supreme Court, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), bringing to their notice the latest order by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that has put Amazon’s investment into a Future Group promoter company in limbo. The company is likely to ask the courts to ‘terminate’ all pending cases related to the sale of its retail assets to Reliance Retail, in the wake of the CCI order, two people familiar with the matter... Read More >

Tech giant Google has launched its first India-focused cohort of the Newsroom Leadership program, in collaboration with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Surabhi Malik, Program Director, Google News Initiative India Training Network, announced in a blog post.

After almost two years of deliberations, the spotlight is back on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 against the backdrop of the Parliament’s ongoing winter session. A 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, tabled its report with recommendations to the Bill in the two houses of the Parliament on Thursday.

Satellite communications provider Viasat said that India runs the risk of losing $184.6 billion in terms of economic value by 2030 if it auctions spectrum in 28 GHz band for 5G services, It added that India may not be able to benefit from the space economy if there is no mmwave spectrum available for satcom services.

Australian-based marketing, customer experience and cloud technology company, Xpon Technologies Group, has today listed on the ASX, under the ASX code XPN.