Talently offers training and an employability marketplace and announced its new capital raising of a US$3 million seed round. The startup that connects talent with technology companies announced that it has grown 50x since the pandemic, maintaining a monthly growth of 30%. Talently has an intensive training platform for software developers in tools that allow them to access positions in leading technology companies.
Capital A Bhd is planning New York listings for its low-cost carrier AirAsia and its digital Super App. The company, which was previously known as AirAsia Group Bhd, began compliance work towards having two separate listings, one for AirAsia planned sometime next year, followed by one for the Super App, which offers services, such as e-hailing and food delivery.
Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 billion. Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across Latam to send and receive/process digital payments. It enables Latam businesses to accept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. The end goal is to help these businesses grow faster online and drive consumer adoption of digital payments.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.