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Prometeo, an Open Banking API platform in Latin America, has announced the launch of Spark, a free program for startups, fintech companies, and small businesses that provides access to its infrastructure of banking connections with APIs in a region that has been historically underserved financially.

The DIF5 Strategy will also be focusing on five key emerging technologies to drive innovation and ensure Malaysia will be at the forefront of the rapid evolution of digital technologies and development of a future-ready digital economy.

Sephoras’ e-commerce stream in Southeast Asia saw a definite growth last year that would have otherwise taken the brand a few years to get to. With this shift in consumer behaviour, Sephora also adapted to become more empathetic while interacting with consumers instead of being “super pushy” in its sales.

Alibaba and Tencent are looking at how they can integrate their walled gardens to ensure consumers can use services from both platforms at the same time. This comes as China continues its push to rein in domestic big tech. The integration could see Tencent’s super app WeChat payment function made available on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall marketplace, while Alibaba could host e-commerce listings on WeChat’s mini programs.

Global advertising company Publicis Groupe is on the acquisition trail, picking up Australian-based software as a service platform CitrusAd which helps retailers sell digital advertising to brands.

As the amount of digital data in the world continues to grow exponentially, extracting meaning from it is becoming an increasingly challenging task, says Peter O’Connor, Vice President – Sales, Asia Pacific, Snowflake.

Jacqui Visch is PWC’s new chief digital and information officer, who discusses her new role and remit at the firm, what the next transformation “horizon” looks like, and opportunities to leverage the global PwC ‘network’ to drive change in the local operations.

10 Viacom CBS has joined forces with LiveRamp to allow advertisers to connect first-party data with the media company’s audiences and improve insights when executing and reporting on BVOD and digital campaigns.

Canadian-based NCRi, the Customer Experience Management (CXM) services Provider and Global Contact Center Operator, has acquired Ascentia Services, LLC, based in Dubai, UAE, and will be merging its contact center operations in Dubai, UAE; Delhi, India; Pune, India; and Manama, Bahrain, which will now operate under the brand name NCRi Ascentia.

SK Narvar promoted, FuelBuddy, the first company to start fuel delivery services in India and a market leader in technology and market share, announced that it has started to providing doorstep fuel delivery services in the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

PushAlphabet Inc’s Google is ramping up cloud infrastructure in India with a second cluster of data centres in and around capital New Delhi to meet increasing customer demands in a key growth market, senior company executives said. The new infrastructure will help provide solutions for problems such as disaster recovery within India and ensure low latency for many state-run enterprises in and around New Delhi.

AIfluence is a two-year-old startup with an AI-driven influencer marketing approach to measuring the ROI of influencer marketing campaigns, a challenge faced by Brand teams globally. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $1 million in seed investment led by Dubai-based EQ2 Ventures. Other investors include Antler East Africa, Oui Capital, ArabyAds and an unnamed European family office.