Braze will acquire North Star, its Australia and New Zealand reseller, in 2024 to provide it a direct presence in the ANZ market and to incorporate local expertise. North Star’s customers include Canva and KFC Australia.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), which spent $9.1 billion in Asia Pacific in the decade between 2012 and 2022, announced it plans to spend even more, $13.2 billion in the next five years to expand cloud infrastructure in Sydney and Melbourne.
Indonesian e-commerce firm Bukalapak announced that it has acquired a majority stake in iPrice, a Malaysia-based price comparison platform. Through this strategic investment, iPrice has the opportunity to accelerate its growth by leveraging the synergies between the two groups.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.