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.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.