Indonesian online grocery platform Happy Fresh said Tuesday it has launched HappyFresh Supermarket to extend fresh and dry grocery accessibility by significantly growing its dark store presence in the Southeast Asian region.
Singapore’s fintech industry hit a five-year high at 191 deals transacted in 2021, a 37% increase compared to 2020’s deal count (139 deals) and a 91% increase from 2019’s figures (100 deals), said a KPMG report.
LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Mantheos, a Singapore-based data solutions provider, and its founders for “unauthorised scraping of millions of LinkedIn member profiles”. LinkedIn said in a statement that Mantheos “fraudulently obtained” LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscriptions by using a network of hundreds of fake LinkedIn member accounts and virtual debit cards under fake names. The company then used the subscriptions to scrape member profile information that should only be available for viewing on LinkedIn in the logged-in environment by other real, logged-in LinkedIn members.
Just over half of consumers (54%) like to receive personalized messages because they show the consumers are known to the brand, plus they can be time savers. The rest (46%) find it at best unimportant, at worst creepy. Relevance far outstrips personalization when it comes to driving email opens (54% vs. 19%). Takeaway: treat each customer the way they prefer.