AnyMind Group, a Singapore-based end-to-end commerce enablement company, announced that the Tokyo Stock Exchange has approved the initial listing of the Company’s shares on the growth market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Some Shopify users have spotted a ‘search for anything’ test that lets them search all merchants for products based on keywords or previous purchases. It would be a huge change for Shopify, which until now has given merchants isolated stores of their own. The company previously said it wouldn’t move in the multi-merchant marketplace direction but stuff happens.
Meta’s layoff of 11,000 employees has impacted several departments in the Asia Pacific region. The employees from departments including politics and government outreach, content design, product marketing, creative strategy, learning and development, news partnerships, employer branding and recruitment marketing, and recruitment were impacted. These were a mix of local and regional roles, and it is unclear how many Asia Pacific employees in total have been impacted.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.