Perx Technologies, a leading enterprise cloud platform that helps businesses connect and engage with their customers, announced that it has inked a partnership with StarHub, a leading homegrown Singapore company that delivers world class communications, entertainment and digital solutions.

After more than two years in development, PUBLIQ’s new publishing platform is now live and fully operational. Anyone can open an account free of charge and start earning income from their creations within minutes. Content creators around the world can publish text, music or video and see payments automatically made into their accounts six times an hour, every ten minutes. These automatic payments continue to be made ad infinitum and individual users are never charged a fee for using the platform.

CastingAsia, an influencer marketing technology solutions provider and part of AnyMind Group, announced the launch of cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and cost-per-click (CPC) capabilities on the CastingAsia platform, in a bid to provide a way for marketers to better address the impact that influencer marketing can have on a business.

Skeptics foresee the demise of the brick-and-mortar shop due to the convenience of online shopping, but this impression is misleading. Retailers can give their businesses a new impetus by optimizing the buying experience with some help from new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the following points prove:

For online retailers, it’s no longer a simple case of bricks vs. clicks anymore. Spoilt for choice these days, consumers are far less loyal to brands and are more likely to try new products. With online retailers facing increasing competition, how can they build brand loyalty and retain customers in today’s marketplace?

The digitalization trend in marketing has made brand management more complex: it is faster, more transparent and less predictable and controllable due to the momentum of social networks. Digital transformation is lived reality by now, making agility and adaptability generally the top criteria for brand success.

Zendesk’s vision to connect customer conversations across web, mobile, and messaging comes to life with WhatsApp for Zendesk, now available across Asia Pacific (APAC). The WhatsApp Business API connector will allow businesses to quickly and easily reach and respond to their customers using WhatsApp across the region.

The market capitalization of the world's top 100 corporations has risen from $ 1.04 trillion (5%) to $ 21 trillion in one year. This is one of the core results of the Global Top 100 ranking by market capitalization, published by the accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Providing content on the Internet free of charge is made possible by advertising. However, not targeted or obtrusive advertising endangers the proper functioning of this model. Rather, it favors the massive use of adblockers.

Microsoft announced the global debut of a retail solution that empowers consumers to make informed purchase decisions amidst the myriad of options available online and offline.

The solution, called Microsoft Synchronized Shopping, is one expression of Microsoft’s broader retail reimagined strategy aimed at simplifying the consumer journey by leveraging intelligent cloud technology.

Digitization has been with us for some time and will continue to play an important role in all areas and industries in 2020. And the sooner we look at it neither as a curse nor a blessing, but as a fact, we can work together not only to solve the challenges on a technical level, but also to ensure that we as humans do not lose ourselves too much.

Using AR effectively is no simple matter. As with any innovative technology, new benefits come with new challenges. Before embedding an AR solution in your business, it’s important to consider four questions:

ABI Research identified the key freight transportation and logistics market trend that will transpire in 2020 – and the one that will not.

Most executives make their decisions based on the perspectives, trends and cycles that are already known today. However, this view carries the risk of thinking too linearly and of missing out on the crucial innovation point.