When Oasis announced its reunion tour last month, fans of the British rock icons rejoiced — by some miracle, brothers and frontmen Noel and Liam Gallagher managed to resolve their fifteen-year-long feud and got the band back together. But for fans, getting tickets to see Oasis seemed even more unlikely than the band’s reunion. Thanks […]
Apps catering to the Chinese and wider Asian diaspora, especially urban consumers focused on food, can be big business. HungryPanda, one of the trailblazing startups in that market, is now announcing more funding. The food-delivery app, founded in London and aimed squarely at Chinese and other Asian consumers living outside their home countries, has picked
At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Meta announced that it’s expanding its AI-powered business chatbots using click-to-message ads on WhatsApp and Messenger in English. Now, businesses can set up ad-embedded chatbots that talk to customers, offer support, and facilitate orders, Meta says. “From answering common customer questions to discussing
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced to employees last week that they will be expected to work from the office five days a week, starting in 2025. Employees who have grown accustomed to a hybrid work structure are “strongly dissatisfied,” according to an anonymous survey created by Amazon employees. As Fortune reports, hundreds of employees responded
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Businesses that sell on Amazon will have access to new generative AI tools allowing them to create video ads from a single product image. There are actually two related products that Amazon announced — live image and video generator. Both of them are being pitched as a way for sellers to easily create video ads
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Amazon sellers now have access to an AI assistant designed to help them grow their business by answering questions about their metrics, and later, may be able to help them directly resolve issues that arise. The assistant, code-named Project Amelia and built on AWS’s Amazon Bedrock, will initially be available in beta to U.S. sellers,
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Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day think of an idea that could revolutionize the wine industry. Now, after a long career in finance, he has returned to that heritage to launch a platform to solve the wine
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Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal. Today, Amazon announced that Prime customers can use PayPal to check out on websites that’ve integrated the Buy with Prime API. The company also
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Amazon has named long-time executive Samir Kumar as the new head of its India consumer business, following an abrupt leadership change in one of its key markets last month. Kumar, who has been with the e-commerce giant for 25 years, will assume the role of Country Manager for India, the company said. This appointment comes
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Amazon said today that it will host its Prime Day-like sales event, “Prime Big Deals Day,” on October 8-9. For the last two years, the ecommerce company has scheduled its fall event in October and has continued that tradition this year. Apart from the U.S., this event will take place in countries including Australia, Austria,
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