The renowned Colombian crowdfunding platform Vaki has announced its entry into the Mexican market to revolutionize and expand the donation sector in the country. Vaki has been a driving force in fundraising, accumulating more than USD$11 million from around 500,000 people. The platform joins the growing trend of digitization and the creation of online platforms, which has taken crowdfunding to new heights in recent years.
Indonesian e-commerce platform Uway announced a new round of financing of US$500 million. The firm said that Uway’s goal is to create a fully optimized supply chain that allows every consumer to get the goods they need in the most convenient way possible.
The recent research conducted by Signifyd, a company providing anti-fraud solutions for ecommerce, has identified an alarming increase in fraud pressure in Mexico over the last three months. Fraud pressure and fraud attempts targeting merchants increased by 68% in June 2023 compared to April of the same year. Additionally, there was a 106% increase compared to May 2022. Despite these positive figures, Mexico leads in e-commerce fraud risk in the region, with a growth of 72% per year, three times faster than the growth of electronic commerce.
AI-edited content is less concerning than AI-generated content — that’s the takeaway from Meta’s adjustment to its AI labeling on Facebook and other platforms. The “AI info” label will continue to appear on AI-generated content. Where content has only been modified or edited using AI, the label will appear more demurely in the post’s menu.