Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI) announced that a major deal brokered by Gaming Dynamics will add more than 15 venues in the Australasian market, as a part of QCI’s global expansion. QCI is a leader in the slots tooling industry and in data integration solutions.
The on-going Twitter train wreck, now with extra drama from Threads, is another story we can’t cover in any depth. Some developments you may have missed: Website Planet found Threads posts get more engagement than posts on Twitter; an Ipsos poll found 58% of Americans who use Twitter have tried Threads or are likely to; and, in a characteristically childish and incompetent move, Twitter has made an ineffectual attempt at blocking links to Threads.
Grow Finance, which Australian Financial Review named the fastest-growing Australian company in 2020-21, will launch its first credit card, in partnership with Pismo. The new Mastercard will be available there in September.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.