Friday Mar 29th

  • Plans for further integration of IBM watsonx with AWS

    Plans for further integration of IBM watsonx with AWS

    IBM announced plans to expand its relationship with Amazon Web Services to help more mutual clients operationalize and derive value from generative artificial intelligence.

  • Artificial Intelligence key in analyzing trends in fraudster behavior

    Artificial Intelligence key in analyzing trends in fraudster behavior

    A new study from Juniper Research forecasts that the greatest merchant losses to fraud will be via remote physical goods purchases, with losses reaching $5.1 billion across emerging markets in 2028, up from $1 billion in 2023.

  • API Security Company Neosec acquired by Akamai Technologies

    API Security Company Neosec acquired by Akamai Technologies

    Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced entering into a definitive agreement to acquire Neosec, an API detection and response platform based on data and behavioral analytics.

  • Majority of APAC consumers are willing to sacrifice data security for convenience

    Majority of APAC consumers are willing to sacrifice data security for convenience

    F5's latest Curve of Convenience 2023 report shows data security taking a back seat with APAC consumers, with an increased willingness to save and share personal payment data on multiple platforms.

  • Protecting Data in the Cloud

    Protecting Data in the Cloud

    Organizations in Singapore are increasing their reliance on the cloud. Nearly nine in ten organizations in the country are using cloud services, with about 70% taking a hybrid cloud approach.

  • Strategic merger of three digital technology firms in Asia

    Strategic merger of three digital technology firms in Asia

    Three prominent digital services companies in Asia – Digile Technologies, Reveron Consulting, and Innopia Global – have merged to create a digital services powerhouse with a formidable presence in the Asian region.

  • Google's approach to further reduce the security burden on users

    Google's approach to further reduce the security burden on users

    October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month and with online safety being top of mind, Google has launched new products and features to help people everywhere. These releases include in-built features that work around-the-clock to take the security burden off users, and updates to privacy controls that help to easily protect personal information.

    • Dark web report: Users can check if their Gmail address has been exposed on the dark web as well as get guidance on how they can protect themself online by accessing the Dark Web Report in their account menu in the Google App. They just have to sign into the Google App and tap their profile picture to open the menu.
    • Passwordless by Default: Passkeys are a simpler and more secure way to sign into sites online and can be used with the Google Accounts. To make transition to passwordless even easier, Google is offering the ability to set up passkeys for all users — by default.
    • A new requirement to make email safer for everyone:  Gmail recently announced new requirements for large senders to make email safer and more user-friendly for everyone, including enforcing authentication, enabling easy unsubscription, enforcing a clear spam rate threshold. This is in addition to Gmail’s AI-powered defenses, which block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware — that’s 15 billion unwanted emails every day. 
    • Easier access to clear browsing data: Google added an option to quickly delete users’ browsing history in Chrome without interrupting current activities. Users just need to click the three dots in the top-right corner of the Chrome browser and select “Clear browsing data”.
    • Use the Google App as the credential provider for your iOS device: Google Password Manager is built into the Google App and you can already use it to securely save your passwords and sign in faster when you’re using the app. Now, you can set it as your Autofill provider so that the Google App can help you quickly and securely autofill your passwords into any app or website on your iOS device.


    Feel free to read more about the announcements in Google’s blog post.

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  • EdTech Intel: 6 Ways AI is Revolutionizing Online Learning

    EdTech Intel: 6 Ways AI is Revolutionizing Online Learning

    After years of steadily picking up steam, online learning is experiencing undeniable explosive growth. The market is racing toward $1 trillion, with the corporate e-learning space expected to skyrocket 250% in the coming years. As e-learning continues to expand beyond the walls of academia, another game-changing phenomenon is going mainstream in a big way: artificial intelligence (AI).

  • Bilateral 5G roaming agreements will push global losses to $8 billion by 2028

    Bilateral 5G roaming agreements will push global losses to $8 billion by 2028

    A new study from Juniper Research has found losses from global roaming fraud are anticipated to exceed $8 billion by 2028, driven by the increase in bilateral roaming agreements for data-intensive use cases over 5G networks. In turn, it predicts fraudulent data traffic will account for 80% of global operator roaming-based losses by 2024.

  • Cybersecurity in the age of digital currency

    Cybersecurity in the age of digital currency

    Cryptocurrencies can be notoriously volatile. With prices fluctuating rapidly and without warning, a single tweet can shift a token price by 40%, only to see the price plummet in a matter of hours. While fluctuations are expected within crypto currency, you need to be able to spot the difference between what is a normal event, and what is a scam.

  • SecurityHQ’s Cyber Predictions

    SecurityHQ’s Cyber Predictions

    In response to the growing number of breaches, SecurityHQ released their latest white paper to highlight analyst predictions for threats and vulnerabilities in H2 2023.

  • Annual report reveals continued surge in sophisticated bot attacks

    Annual report reveals continued surge in sophisticated bot attacks

    HUMAN Security, Inc., a cybersecurity company that protects organizations by disrupting digital fraud and abuse, just announced the release of its 2023 Enterprise Bot Fraud Benchmark Report. The annual report provides insights into automated attack trends across enterprise use cases, including account takeover, brute forcing, carding, credential stuffing, inventory hoarding, scalping and web scraping.

  • Meltwater delivers the future of media, social and consumer intelligence through OpenAI models and advanced algorithms

    Meltwater delivers the future of media, social and consumer intelligence through OpenAI models and advanced algorithms

    Meltwater empowers companies with a suite of solutions that spans media, social, consumer and sales intelligence by analyzing ~1 billion pieces of content each day and transforming them into vital insights. Now, the company announces new AI-powered product innovations across multiple solutions that allow customers to surface insights, boost efficiency, and generate content.

  • Comprehensive protection measures a must to prevent data leaks and theft

    Comprehensive protection measures a must to prevent data leaks and theft

    Remote work, home office or hybrid work, have become the norm in today's business world and that most likely will stay that way. But the more employees work remotely, the greater the company's risk of falling victim to a cyberattack, making a sophisticated and multi-layered security concept the more essential for any company.

This week's highlights

Medallia Launches Four Breakthrough AI Innovations

Category: Jan–Mar 2024 - AI Trends & Predictions
At its Experience ‘24 conference, Medallia, Inc. announced four ground-breaking innovations that will fundamentally alter the way organizations can personalize customer and employee experience
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Increasing adoption of AI in companies driven by early adopters

Category: Jan–Mar 2024 - AI Trends & Predictions
New research commissioned by IBM found that about 42% of enterprise-scale organizations (over 1,000 employees) surveyed have AI actively in use in their businesses. Early adopters are leading the way,
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AI ushers in era of intelligent CX, fuels massive industry transformation

Category: Jan–Mar 2024 - AI Trends & Predictions
Zendesk, Inc. today released its annual Customer Experience(CX) Trends Report, the findings of which signal a rapid transition towards intelligent CX. In this era, the shift to AI-driven service will
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Challenges organizations face to be ready for a safe post quantum computing future

Category: Oct–Dec 2023 - Omnichannel Marketing
DigiCert released the results of a global study at its annual Trust Summit conference, exploring how organizations are addressing the post-quantum computing (PQC) threat and preparing for a safe post-
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Black Friday Online Shopping Safety Checklist

Category: Oct–Dec 2023 - Omnichannel Marketing
Vigilance is urged during this 2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday, as “AI generated scams enhance the threat to this year’s festive shoppers, as it’s revealed over 7 in 10 British
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Yahoo integrated approach for advertising in a cookieless world

Category: Oct–Dec 2023 - Omnichannel Marketing
Yahoo Advertising announced a new integration with Twilio Segment Customer Data Platform (CDP) to drive greater advertising reach and relevance, without relying on third-party cookies.
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Previous month's highlights

IBM Unveils the Watsonx Platform to Power Next-Generation Foundation Models for Business

Category: Apr–June 2023 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing

At its annual Think conference, IBM announced IBM watsonx, a new AI and data platform, planned to be released in July 2023, that will enable enterprises to scale and accelerate the impact of the most advanced AI with trusted data.

How AI will change the way we work in Asia Pacific

Category: Apr–June 2023 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing

Microsoft introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot earlier this year, which will bring powerful new generative AI capabilities to apps millions of people use every day like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and more.

With new brand identity. LG aims to actively communicate with customers beyond generations and locations

Category: Apr–June 2023 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing

LG Electronics (LG) unveiled a new brand direction and visual identity, which will shed more light on the value of Life's Good with a more dynamic and youthful look across all physical and digital customer touch points.

Meltwater Brings Powerful New Enterprise Suite to APAC

Category: Apr–June 2023 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing

Meltwater, a global leader in media intelligence and data analytics, today announced the availability of Meltwater Enterprise Intelligence Suite, a comprehensive offering that promises vital insights and transformative impact to enterprise clients.

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