Consumers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region remain among the most enthusiastic adopters of digital payments in the world, with 88% having used technologies like digital wallets, QR codes, buy now pay later (BNPL), cryptocurrencies, biometrics and others in the last year, Mastercard survey revealed.
GoTo ran strong in the second quarter of this year and shows sustainable growth, increased monetization, more effective incentive spending and optimized operational costs.
Are cloud databases the best thing since sliced bread? Many people think so, although I’d guess most are too young to remember actual unsliced bread. For the record, so am I, although I do recall the bread slicing machine in my uncle’s bakery, which made a jiggling motion while set of parallel blades descended through the loaf. Very cool, but I digress. The news here is that Teradata has launched a new cloud-native database to compete with the likes of Snowflake and Databricks.
Twilio is adding ‘contextual awareness’ to its Segment CDP, which in plainer English means data stored in Segment will be available when creating event-triggered, real-time messages. This and a redesigned journey architecture are part of Twilio’s “next generation” customer engagement platform, which also includes natural voice AI agents, voice and text analytics, and RCS and WhatsApp messaging. Twilio separately announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft to speed the adoption of conversational AI for customer engagement.