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For Tokopedia, the Indonesian most visited e-commerce platform, graph databases will enable them to not only improve their services but also use the insights to come up with products and offerings for their customers. Simply put, graph databases can transform the way we look at and understand data in the future.

Capital A’s digital business airasia super app is officially launched in Asean’s largest populated country – Indonesia, marking a significant milestone for the region’s fastest-growing travel super app as it completes its Asean expansion plan in 2022, focusing on Bali as a key international tourist market.

Satgana, a European venture capital (VC) firm headquartered in Luxembourg, has closed a €30 million fund to fund startups that tackle climate change problems in Africa.

Egyptian fintech startup MoneyFellows has announced the first close of its Series B round funding with a US$31 million investment to help it accelerate its growth and move into new markets.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the opening of its second African office in Lagos, Nigeria. The opening of the Lagos office comes five years after its first office in Johannesburg was opened in 2017.

Following a recent ruling by India’s competition regulator, Google announced it has halted the enforcement of its Play Store billing policy in the country, which requires developers to pay up to 30% for in-app purchases. The announcement arrives days after the Competition Commission of India ordered Google to let app developers use alternative payment systems and fined it $113 million for abusing its market power. The country also issued a fine of $161.9 million on the company the previous week for being anti-competitive in the Android mobile device market.

House of Anita Dongre, India’s biggest fashion empire previously had ecommerce and offline retail businesses operated in siloes with multiple disparate systems and separate customer databases. Salesforce enabled them to digitally transform marketing, ecommerce, and service processes.

PhonePe, India’s leading fintech platform announced the launch of its first Green Data Center in India, leveraging technologies and solutions from Dell Technologies and NTT. The Green Data Center will open new opportunities in data management for PhonePe, with efficient data security, power efficiency, ease of operations, and cloud solutions.

Peak’s inaugural Decision Intelligence (DI) Maturity Index found that while the US was an early leader in AI, India is now a more mature market when it comes to readying its business to adopt AI. The report, developed in partnership with the Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), stated that education about AI and internal communication is setting Indian businesses apart in using AI and that while 18% of US workers were not sure if their businesses used AI, only 2% of Indian workers responded that way.

Anchora, the marketing technology consultancy, has launched two new product offerings for the Australian market. The first, LIFT, assists organisations in migrating their digital marketing activities to the cloud. The second, STITCH, creates cohesion between disparate solutions or applications, ensuring organisations get the maximum value from their market technology.

ForceNet, a service used by the Australian Department of Defence for auditable communications and personnel information sharing has had a ransomware attack. The attackers have not yet been identified and military information is not believed to have been stolen, but the breach may affect the records of 40,000 defence personel.

Antsomi, CDP Institute and DAC have recently teamed up to organize events to push the use of customer data platform (CDP) in Southeast Asia, whereby the seminars were held in Vietnam and Indonesia, respectively. The three entities are excited to see the industry’s enthusiastic responses with the urge to learn how CDP can help drive marketing transformation.