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Workforce management solutions provider Humanforce has acquired Ento, a management solution company used for rostering shift management, time, and attendance, leave and onboarding. Ento is used in 10,000 workplaces by more than 100,000 employees in companies including World Vision, Medibank, and Mecca.

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Web traffic for Southeast Asia (SEA)’s top 10 e-commerce platforms increased by a notable 64 percent between the third quarter of 2019 and second quarter of 2022, a report showed.

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Grab is launching its digibank in Malaysia and Indonesia next year. Earlier this year, GXS Bank, a joint venture between Grab and Singtel, and Kuok Brothers, was one of the five applicants which received a digital bank licence from Bank Negara Malaysia.

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Carsome, Malaysia’s first tech unicorn, has been making the rounds in the last 24 hours over the possibility of a workforce reduction across all its operations in the region. The Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform eventually confirmed the rumors and indicated that they are indeed going through a “optimization of workforce”, while its executive team forgoes their salaries for the remainder of 2022.

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The EU has completed passage of its Digital Services Act with final approval by the European Council. The act targets unfair practices by big tech vendors. Contrast that to the big U.S. antitrust bill that’s stalled in the U.S. Senate. (Thanks, Chuck Schumer.) Don’t confuse it with a much smaller bill approved by the House last week.

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The online advertising industry is rife with fraud, perhaps because it’s dominated by big tech and perhaps despite it. Either way, ads.txt is one of the more effective measures at limiting the problem. But this study by Sellers.Guide found errors in tens of thousands of ads.txt files, although the report doesn’t indicate what fraction of the total that represents.

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In somewhat cheerier news, Spiceworks Ziff Davis reports that most companies (51%) plan to increase IT spending next year, even those even more (83%) are worried about a recession. Unfortunately for many marketers, the focus of spending will be infrastructure improvements not marketing. If you want a clearer sense of IT priorities: personalized advertising ranks second-to-last on a list of ten ways organizations plan to use artificial intelligence.

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Venture funding may not quite be flowing like wine anymore, but the tap isn’t completely shut. Klaus, which uses AI to review customer support conversations so managers don’t have to, just closed a €12 million Series A. Klaus is based in Estonia and has an exceptionally cute cat logo, if you’re tracking either of those dimensions.

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Coalesce lacks a cute animal mascot but they’re part of the super-hot data preparation space, driven by companies’ need to manage big data efficiently. They just raised a $26 million Series A for a transformation tool that combines the efficiency of a graphical user interface with power of a code-driven system. How exciting is that?

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Tray.io also plays in the integration sandbox, although they’re more focused on automation than process automation than data management. They tick the buzzword boxes for low-code, cloud-based, and digital transformation. If that’s not worth a $40 million extension to their $50 million Series C, then what is?

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Australia’s Attorney-General has said the government will make “urgent reforms” to the country’s Privacy Act following the Optus breach, where the company was blamed for lax security, resulting in the theft of nearly 10 million customer records. Resulting fines for that could reach as high as 2 million Australian dollars ($1.3 million). Certainly, it has put increased pressure on the government, which has been in process reviewing its privacy laws for several years, and now stated it may move on this within the next month.

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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong plans to launch a compliance review following a data breach that may have impacted 290,000 Shangri-La hotel group customers. Concern is that customers were not notified until more than two months that a breach potentially affecting their data had occurred.

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