Antitrust approval will be the largest hurdle for Southeast Asia-based super app Grab as the ride-hailing and food delivery firm flagged as a potential suitor for Foodpanda’s business in selected markets, analysts said.
Australian Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Katonic.ai raised AU$1.6M (~US$1,015,825) in pre-Series A. The funding will be used to expand the staff and to expand products and services.
SoftBank Corp. announced it will launch a full-fledged expansion of its global IoT business in the Asia-Pacific region. In this sales expansion that spans 19 countries and regions, including Japan, SoftBank will focus on marketing IoT services, mainly the “1NCE IoT Flat Rate,” an affordable global IoT connectivity service from German company 1NCE GmbH, to enterprise customers. SoftBank aims to acquire a total 2 million 1NCE IoT Flat Rate connections in APAC and other regions within the 2025 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2026.
Google will begin the U.S. rollout of its much-anticipated generative AI search capability this week, with rollout in other countries “coming soon.” Search results include links to information sources but Website owners still worry that detailed answers will result in fewer people clicking past Google to their own websites. From Google’s perspective that’s a feature, not a bug.