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Regional low-cost airline AirAsia launches Super+ subscription service for flights and food delivery

March 31, 2022
Low-cost airline AirAsia has launched a subscription plan for customers in South East Asia. The subscription plan, called Super+, allows subscribers to fly anywhere with unlimited flight redemptions across all AirAsia airlines across the region, for both domestic and international destinations. Subscribers also have access to unlimited free delivery for AirAsia food orders and are covered by Covid pre-departure insurance. This makes them the only super app in the market that is able to offer this one-of-a-kind subscription plan that includes both travel and lifestyle products and services.
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Migrante steps on the gas of vehicle leasing for gig workers in Latin America

March 31, 2022
In 2018, Migrante got the idea for the e-commerce and lending company to provide durable goods, like cars, motorbikes and mobile phones, for gig workers in the Andes region. The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income, like motorcycles, cars and trucks, and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Migrante offers new vehicles.
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Chilean Webdox expands to automate contracts in Brazil

March 31, 2022
Webdox automates contracts to facilitate the management of lawyers from different companies. It will launch in Brazil as it is home to several multinational clients. Since last October, the Chilean company Webdox already announced that it would continue its expansion in Latin America after raising US$7.3 million in a Series A. At that time it did not mention the first destination of its expansion, but today we know that it will be Brazil.
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Snowflake Adds Amazon Demand Data to Retail Data Cloud

March 30, 2022
Just one day after announcing its Retail Data Cloud, Snowflake extended its reach with a deal to that makes it easier for Amazon sellers use to use Amazon purchase data for demand forecasting. There’s no customer-level data involved, but it’s one more data set that Snowflake users can access through the Amazon Data Marketplace. Amazon also announced a separate deal to connect the Retail Data Cloud with Blue Yonder’s retail supply chain system.
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EU passes landmark Digital Markets Act – biggest change since GDPR

March 29, 2022
The EU announced sweeping change via the Digital Markets Act (DMA), to force Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta – and anyone else with $83 billion+ annual revenue – to significantly alter how they treat EU consumers and operate in the EU. The DMA targets treatment in app stores and marketplaces; on search engines, social networks, and web browsers; and in cloud and ad services. It requires the ability to unsubscribe, fair access for sellers, and notification of mergers or acquisitions. It forbids ad targeting without consent, preferential treatment against competitors, reuse... Read More >
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New EU privacy framework & UK Transfer Tools look to solve data transfer impasse

March 29, 2022
Hoping the third time’s a charm, the EU and US agreed in principle to terms that would allow businesses to transfer data to the US. This comes after two previous attempts failed because the EU felt citizen data wouldn’t be adequately protected. The question now is, if as before, the agreement will face legal challenges, including from privacy advocate Max Schrems and his noyb (stands for “none of your business”) group. In even more proactive data-transfer solving news, the UK announced that new transfer tools are ready under UK GDPR. These are the International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA), and an addendum to the EU Commission standard contractual clauses. 
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