Indonesian tech giant GoTo, the parent company of Gojek and Tokopedia, has expanded the coverage for its financial services app GoPay to include all cities in Indonesia. With the expansion, people who are not Gojek and Tokopedia users will also be able to download the app, signalling the group’s move to deepen its financial services offerings beyond the ride-hailing and e-commerce ecosystems.
Meta has been ordered to pay A$20 million (US$14 million) for not being transparent enough with customers about how data would be used by subsidiaries, Facebook Israel and Onavo Inc. The company was found to have used data for market research and acquisition targets, but not stating that information prominently in its product advertising, though disclosures were made in the terms of service and privacy policy.
Starlink is now available in Malaysia, marking the 60th country where the company provides satellite high-speed Internet service. Starlink has started offering its broadband satellite Internet service in the country with a monthly subscription price of MYR220 (US$48.22), offering up to 100Mbps (megabits per second) download speed.
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.