Indonesian online grocery platform Happy Fresh said Tuesday it has launched HappyFresh Supermarket to extend fresh and dry grocery accessibility by significantly growing its dark store presence in the Southeast Asian region.
Singapore’s fintech industry hit a five-year high at 191 deals transacted in 2021, a 37% increase compared to 2020’s deal count (139 deals) and a 91% increase from 2019’s figures (100 deals), said a KPMG report.
LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Mantheos, a Singapore-based data solutions provider, and its founders for “unauthorised scraping of millions of LinkedIn member profiles”. LinkedIn said in a statement that Mantheos “fraudulently obtained” LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscriptions by using a network of hundreds of fake LinkedIn member accounts and virtual debit cards under fake names. The company then used the subscriptions to scrape member profile information that should only be available for viewing on LinkedIn in the logged-in environment by other real, logged-in LinkedIn members.
The generative AI world is moving so quickly that it’s hard to know what’s worth reporting. But cross-medium content creation is still pretty new, so let’s note that Microsoft’s Bing search engine / chatbot can now create images from text prompts. That’s pretty impressive, at least for this week.