In 2018, Migrante got the idea for the e-commerce and lending company to provide durable goods, like cars, motorbikes and mobile phones, for gig workers in the Andes region. The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income, like motorcycles, cars and trucks, and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Migrante offers new vehicles.
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.
Webdox automates contracts to facilitate the management of lawyers from different companies. It will launch in Brazil as it is home to several multinational clients. Since last October, the Chilean company Webdox already announced that it would continue its expansion in Latin America after raising US$7.3 million in a Series A. At that time it did not mention the first destination of its expansion, but today we know that it will be Brazil.
“Ask Meta AI anything” is what you now see instead of the traditional search bar across Meta apps such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta AI will still perform the basic search function but will also answer questions and chat with you. It should hardly be a surprise when a tech company launches a genAI solution these days but this is a bold challenge to Google and Open.ai (it’s also available as a standalone tool at Meta.ai).