The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Indonesia has announced that it has ceased its analogue radio operations in Indonesia on in favour of transitioning to digital broadcasting. This was done to save the broadcasting company around GPB 28.5m in expenses. This also follows ceasing radio operations of BBC Arabic, BBC Persian, and BBC Chinese.
Gojek announced the expansion of its transport offering in Singapore with the scheduled launch of GoCar Kids and GoCar XL Kids, its on-demand service type for those travelling with children aged four to seven years.
The coming year in LatAm looks to be similar to 2022, with less capital for startups. Startups founded in 2023 will be more scalable with better financial prospects. This is because new companies will have better fundamentals and focus on their unit economics. There is a thought that the best companies, the most successful ones, have been born in big crises. The lack of capital will force more startups to seek acquisition as an alternative to a shutdown.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.