Adobe has announced a partnership with India’s Ministry of Education with the aim of boosting creative expression in classrooms using Adobe Express. Adobe Express is an AI-first, all-in-one, quick and easy content creation app with generative AI capabilities, that allows users to create content like posters, animated videos, web pages, and PDFs.
Nestcoin, a development company housing modern finance project Onboard, has secured $1.9 million in a strategic funding round. Hashed Emergent, a Web2.5 fund for builders from emerging markets, led the round. Alter Global, Magic Fund, CMT Digital, and 4DX Ventures are among the existing investors that took part. Adaverse and Base Ecosystem Fund, two new investors, also participated.
As the governments’ push towards digital transformation fuels demand for data centres in the Middle East, the UAE has firmly established itself as a leader in driving the data centre evolution with around 28 active colocation facilities. Several data centres and cloud providers have either established a presence or are seeking to expand their footprint in the country.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.