Australia’s COVIDSafe app cost taxpayers $9M
A parliamentary inquiry has heard the government’s COVIDSafe app has now cost taxpayers more than $9 million despite being rarely used to assist contract tracers in their efforts.
A parliamentary inquiry has heard the government’s COVIDSafe app has now cost taxpayers more than $9 million despite being rarely used to assist contract tracers in their efforts.
The rapid growth in ecommerce during the pandemic has heightened the need for real-time insights to accommodate fast-changing customer behaviour.
Multinational investment bank and financial services company, United Overseas Bank (UOB) is investing up to SG$500 million in digital innovation initiatives as it seeks to double its retail customers. With the investment, the bank aims to digitally serve more than seven million customers across ASEAN by 2026.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)