Amazon is hiring for a new publisher-focused advertising team called “PubTech.” It is building a tech platform that could compete with Google, Magnite, and Pubmatic. The tech will help publishers sell ads on Amazon, according to job postings. Amazon is staffing up to build new ad products for publishers. The retail giant has 11 job … Read more
Paytm has informed that it’s Founder MD & CEO, Vijay Shekhar Sharma (VSS) is acquiring 10.30% stake from Antfin. Stake is being acquired through a 100% foreign entity owned by VSS – Resilient Asset Management B.V. In lieu of the acquisition, Resilient is issuing Optionally Convertible Debentures (OCDs) to Antfin Post transaction – VSS’s shareholding … Read more
AI can pick private equity firms to back better than many investors, per an Oxford study. Researchers trained AI to read 400 prospectuses to predict the top-performing funds. However, lead researcher Ludovic Phalippou believes it should still only be used as a sounding board. Artificial intelligence can pick out top-performing private equity (PE) funds better than … Read more
IT services company Infosys said on Friday that it was cooperating with an Australian government investigation into ‘tainted contracts’. The software major has also reportedly cut off ties with lobbying firm Synergy 360 – which was reportedly paid $16 million over 5 years to help Infosys grow its business in Australia. An investigation was launched … Read more
E-commerce giant Amazon has started testing the use of AI to summarize product reviews. Amazon seems to be doing a limited rollout of the feature that is appearing only in some listings. Such product review summaries could be useful in guiding customers toward newer reviews, per an Amazon marketing agency CTO. AI has truly … Read more
One way to see how private companies are faring is to look at secondary exchanges. The fallen giants are led by former fintech darling Plaid, which has plunged almost 80% in 2023. Buyers who had been sitting on the sidelines are eager to snap up bargains in battered startups. While investors can measure the value … Read more
The metaverse has a loneliness problem. Mark Zuckerberg says Apple’s new headset will make everyone lonelier. But even Meta’s headset is, in the end, someone sitting alone on a couch too. Mark Zuckerberg’s verdict on Apple’s new mixed-reality headset is in: It’s lonesome. “Every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch … Read more
Apple recently, at Worldwide Developers Conference 2023, launched its first major product in a while, since 2014: Vision Pro. Alongside, Vision Pro, the Cupetino’s tech giant showcases several products in the line-up including MacBook Air 15”, M2 Max and M2 Ultra powered Mac Studio and Mac Pro. Apple Vision Pro was long-rumored and now it’s … Read more