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.
There’s no shortage of lawsuits by publishers against genAI platforms for copyright infringement; now major studios are getting with the program. Walt Disney and Comcast’s Universal are accusing Midjourney of using some of their best known characters (think Darth Vader and the Minions) in its AI image generator — a “bottomless pit of plagiarism,” they say. No response yet from Midjourney.