Carousell has partnered with car-as-a-subscription company Carzuno to offer the ‘Carousell Car Subscription’ in Singapore, a fully digital service that allows users to choose and return their automobile without leaving their homes, leveraging the recently announced Carousell Certified program for cars.
Australia’s Finance Sector Union (FSU) has called out Westpac, one of Australia’s big four banks, for conducting a series of staff firings over the last two months, while at the same time reporting that the bank had a 22% surge in six-month net profits of over $4 billion. In that time, the bank laid off 751 people across many departments, claiming it needed to “cut costs during difficult economic times.”
Total funding into Southeast Asia (SEA) tech startups fell 71% to US$2.3 billion in the first half of 2023, from US$8 billion a year ago, said Tracxn Technologies Ltd in its SEA Tech Semi-Annual Funding report. The total funding in the first half is 45% lower than US$4.3 billion raised in the second half of 2022. The decline was largely driven by a plunge in late-stage investments in the first half, which fell 54% and 72% when compared with the second half of 2022 and first half of 2022 respectively.
CDP and marketing automation platform Bloomreach announced the availability of a next generation version of Bloomreach Engagement. Deploying Bloomreach’s Loomi AI capabilities, campaign creation within Bloomreach Engagement will become something “one marketer can complete in minutes.” Campaigns can be scaled across fifteen-plus channels.