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.
Google will give consumers more control over the ads they see, replacing current Ad Settings and About this Ad options with My Ad Center later this year . The unified offering will let users specify the brands and topics they want to see, change personal information used to target ads, and make it easier to see who paid for an ad they are viewing. It’s doubtful many consumers will bother with the settings but the features give more control to those who care.