Advertising and marketing company D.A.Consortium Inc. (DAC) has made a strategic investment in Antsomi. This investment marks a significant milestone in the partnership between Antsomi and DAC, positioning DAC as a regional reseller of Antsomi’s innovative customer data platform, CDP 365, in the Southeast Asian region.
Software as a Service (SaaS) medical management provider BoomerangFX is expanding into Australia in response to big growth in the aesthetic medicine market there. BoomerangFX provides comprehensive clinic practice management solutions for non-insured private pay sectors, including dermatology, cosmetic surgery, vision care and mental health. This move follows the company’s recent announcement of a worldwide partnership with Stripe to offer integrated payment options to clinics.
Pan-Asian venture capital firm, Gobi Partners has taken on the lead investor role in the Series A funding round of Southeast Asia’s largest integrated recommerce platform startup, CompAsia. Since 2016, CompAsia has transformed itself into a one-stop platform that allows customers to trade in or purchase electronic devices. The platform also offers financing plans and other options to address customer concerns about transparency when buying such goods.
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.