Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, has launched ‘Flipkart Commerce Cloud’, which offers retail technology solutions for International retailers, marketplaces and e-commerce platforms. The company aims to help retailers across the world grow their business and solve business needs through intelligent and AI driven solutions.
Senegalese FMCG intelligence startup Lengo AI has raised a seven-figure pre-seed round of funding to help it develop its product and team, and expand into new African markets. Founded in 2022 by Max Smith, Roger Xavier Macia and Ismaila Seck, Lengo AI is the first data-driven operating system for informal retail in Africa.
Experian, one of India’s leading credit bureaus and Gupshup, the leading conversational engagement platform, have partnered to offer credit scores to consumers on WhatsApp. The chatbot-based WhatsApp journey makes it convenient for consumers to access credit reports, track irregularities and detect fraud. With this initiative, the number of consumers checking their credit scores at Experian has grown almost two-fold since the service was launched.
Preliminary findings by the European Commission state that Apple and Google are in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Among the findings, Google Search is accused of prioritizing Google’s own products and services in results; Apple is instructed to improve interoperability between iOS and third-party devices. The companies now have an opportunity to respond.