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Triton Digital, the global technology and services leader to the digital audio industry, announced a partnership with Mirchi, India’s no.1 music and entertainment company, owned by Entertainment Network India Limited.

Aussie brand Dissh launched phase one of the rollout in February to link up all email, social advertising and customer data. It is expected to deliver greater customer visibility by automating and integrating of audiences across all channels, while built-in test-and-learn capabilities will eventually be extended across all touchpoints to bring personalisation into business processes.

NAB is accelerating its digital plans with further acquisitions and the continued rollout of a digital home loan platform. The company has 60 percent of its apps migrated to the cloud to better position it to combat cybercrime and use digital data and analytics to improve consumer outcomes.

Singapore’s C2C buying platform Carousell has signed a deal to acquire omnichannel fashion recommerce retailer Refash in Singapore. Off the back of its partnership with Ox Street to power authentication capabilities for secondhand streetwear, the acquisition reflects the group’s laser-focused drive to solve barriers of convenience and trust in selling and buying secondhand.

Vietnam social commerce platform Aemi announced that it has recently raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. Aemi is an online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace connecting social commerce entrepreneurs to major and niche Asian health and beauty brands.

Chile-based Xepelin is in the B2B Latam payment industry via a SaaS payments infrastructure, that includes financial information in real time, embedded financial services and data models, all to be a company’s “digital CFO”. The company raised US$230 million in an equity and debt Series A round last year, led by Kaszek, and since then expanded into Mexico.

While streaming is experiencing a minor crisis in the US, in LatAm, the outlook looks more auspicious. There is a lot to grow, it is estimated that streaming penetration in the region is 10%, with 93.7 million subscribers.

Nandan Nilekani, non-executive chairman of Infosys is helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi build an open technology network that seeks to level the playing field for small merchants in the country’s fragmented but fast-growing $1 trillion retail market. Its stated purpose is to create a freely accessible online system, but its unspoken objective is to eventually curb the powers of Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc.-owned Flipkart.

NIIT Limited, a leading global talent development corporation, announced its appointment as an Authorized Training Partner of Salesforce, the global CRM (Customer Relationship Management) leader. The collaboration will address the growing demand in the Salesforce Ecosystem for Salesforce skilled talent.

US Trade Representative (USTR) raised concerns over India’s Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill and draft non-personal data governance framework, claiming these could potentially threaten innovation and economic growth.

Aussie fintech HelpPay has created a technology that turns a bill into a shareable link and payment page, which consumers then share via email, social channels and chat with multiple individuals so they can pay any amount directly towards the bill in order to understand what’s driving customer engagement and rapid-fire website innovation.

The new personalised digital gift messages are being facilitated by Melbourne tech startup, gift flick, which has created an ecommerce plug-in allowing consumers to virtually send a product or gift voucher in an online retailer’s store via their preferred messaging channel and at a time they set. The gifts are then revealed as part of a ‘gift story’ featuring a personalised message, photo and/or video.