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Global Selling in a Digital Age: Unpacking SHOPLINE’s Re-Imagine Summit Highlights

SHOPLINE is recognised as Asia’s leading modern commerce platform. Offering an extensive suite of native technologies, resources, and strategic partnerships, SHOPLINE is dedicated to empowering merchants to achieve success. With SHOPLINE, brands and retailers have access to robust omnichannel solutions encompassing ecommerce, social commerce, and point-of-sale. Read More at Shopline  

Threedium completes $11m

Threedium, which specialises in 3D/AR high-fidelity assets has closes an $11m Series A funding round. The round was led by Interpublic Group and Olma Partners with additional support from Mesh Consensys, Reflexive Capital, Nirvana Family Office, Lyra Ventures, Edenbase, and Kinisis Venture Fund I. Read more at Mobile Marketing Magazine

Diverse internet rules to become law

With years of debate, the government’s controversial Online Safety Bill, which aims to make the internet safer for children, has now become law. It seeks to force all tech firms to take more responsibility for the content on their platforms. Read more at BBC Online Safety Bill: divisive internet rules become law – BBC News… Read more »

Could AI Help make chemical weapons

Artificial intelligence could help make it easier to build chemical & biological weapons, Rishi Sunak has warned. In a worst-case scenario, society could lose all control over AI, preventing it from being switched off, While the potential for harm is disputed, we must not “put our heads in the sand” over AI risks, the PM… Read more »

X Fined by Australia for failing to crack down on child abuse content

Australia’s internet safety watchdog has given a A$610,500 ($386,000; £317,360) fine on Elon Musk’s X for failing to cooperate with a probe into anti-child abuse practices. It comes after Mr Musk in a post last November said that “removing child exploitation is a priority Read more at BBC  

How gamers Really feel about in-game advertising

The In-game ad experience platform, Monetizr , has released a two-tiered survey of more than 200,000 mobile gamers. The study looks into the world of gamer sentiment and offers a detailed exploration of how diverse gamer demographics perceive sponsored in-game experiences. The survey, which first engaged more than 207,000 respondents about demographic data and then… Read more »

Microsoft cleared to buy Call of Duty maker.

Microsoft’s revised offer to buy Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard has been approved by UK regulators. The Competition & Markets Authority said the deal addressed its concerns after the watchdog blocked the original $69bn (£56bn) bid in April. The deal marks the culmination of a nearly two-year fight to secure the gaming industry’s biggest-ever takeover.… Read more »

Amazon Prime Day taking over Black Friday & Cyber Monday

New research shows that four percent more shoppers are preparing to spend on Amazon Prime Day. The report, by mobile ad specialist InMobi, also reveals that the same number of consumers – four percent – are preparing to reduce their holiday purchases during Black Friday. It concludes that Amazon Prime Day is driving holiday shopping… Read more »

Kose launches social video commerce for its Addiction brand 

The Japanese multinational personal care company, Kose are launching a social video commerce offering for its Addiction cosmetics brand. Kose who produce premium cosmetics, skin care, and hair products, with a focus on both innovation and sustainability.. Addiction is its make-up brand, that provides a wide variety of colours and textures to create custom-made styles that… Read more »

Kose launches social video commerce for its Addiction brand 

The Japanese multinational personal care company, Kose are launching a social video commerce offering for its Addiction cosmetics brand. Kose who produce premium cosmetics, skin care, and hair products, with a focus on both innovation and sustainability.. Addiction is its make-up brand, that provides a wide variety of colours and textures to create custom-made styles that… Read more »

YouTube starts verifying UK health workers 

In 2022, health videos were viewed more than three billion times in the UK alone on YouTube and Doctors, nurses and psychologists have been applying for this scheme since June and must meet rigorous criteria set by the tech giant to be eligible. Successful applicants will have a badge under their name identifying them as… Read more »

Hyundai Motor America launches in-vehicle payments   

Hyundai Motor America, are bringing in-vehicle payments to customers with the introduction of Hyundai Pay. The Hyundai Pay system allows customers to find and pay for things with their vehicle’s touchscreen using securely-stored credit card information. Payments are kept secure using tokenization, where card account details are replaced with a unique digital identifier, or token,… Read more »