Indian merchant commerce platform Pine Labs has raised US$50 million from Vitruvian Partners, a London-headquartered international investment firm. With this newly secured investment, Pine Labs will continue to expand its BNPL offering in the Southeast Asia region.
Australia ranks number one in Asia Pacific for most ransomware attacks, and seventh globally according to new research which reveals that 37% of all attacks on Australian organisations targeted the commercial and professional services sector, research also found that ransomware payments hit new records in 2021 as cybercriminals increasingly turned to Dark Web “leak sites”.
Low-cost airline AirAsia has launched a subscription plan for customers in South East Asia. The subscription plan, called Super+, allows subscribers to fly anywhere with unlimited flight redemptions across all AirAsia airlines across the region, for both domestic and international destinations. Subscribers also have access to unlimited free delivery for AirAsia food orders and are covered by Covid pre-departure insurance. This makes them the only super app in the market that is able to offer this one-of-a-kind subscription plan that includes both travel and lifestyle products and services.
AI-edited content is less concerning than AI-generated content — that’s the takeaway from Meta’s adjustment to its AI labeling on Facebook and other platforms. The “AI info” label will continue to appear on AI-generated content. Where content has only been modified or edited using AI, the label will appear more demurely in the post’s menu.