Carousell cuts 10% of total headcount, including about 50 job roles in Singapore
Singapore’s online marketplace Carousell cut 110 jobs, or 10 per cent of the firm’s total headcount, as part of efforts to rein in costs amid dimmed growth prospects.
Singapore’s online marketplace Carousell cut 110 jobs, or 10 per cent of the firm’s total headcount, as part of efforts to rein in costs amid dimmed growth prospects.
Accenture has just acquired Fiftyfive5, an Australian-based customer insights and advisory business. The move will strengthen Accenture Song’s ability to help clients tap data insights and performance marketing to accelerate growth and innovation across Australia and New Zealand. Fiftyfive5, which was recently named B&T Research Agency of the Year, has a proven track record in delivering customer insight-driven strategy, customer insight optimized execution and performance measurement for some of the region’s leading brands.
Investment activity in the Southeast Asia region will continue in 2023 but investors are expected to scrutinize valuations more closely, according to Southeast Asia venture debt provider InnoVen Capital SEA.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.