5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (403+ words) Uber has ramped up support for cross-border travel between Hong Kong and Macau ahead of the National Day Golden Week, slashing limousine booking times and rolling out a WeChat mini programme for mainland travellers. This comes six months after Uber's…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (714+ words) Touch ’n Go is celebrating its 30th anniversary by doing something unusual for a brand anniversary: putting itself in the background. Rather than spotlighting its cards, app or payment technology, the Malaysian payments brand has made its own invisibility the centrepiece…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (287+ words) Indonesia’s ministry of communication and digital affairs (Kemkomdigi) has summoned WhatsApp representatives to explain a wave of account deactivations reported by users, with the messaging platform acknowledging that a global system error wrongly disabled some accounts. The ministry said it…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (360+ words) Australian creative technology platform Nova Studio has strengthened its Asia Pacific team with two senior hires as it looks to accelerate growth with agencies and other buy-side partners across the region. The company has appointed Aimee Jenkins as director of…...

2+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (526+ words) Sandhya Devanathan, Meta’s vice president for India and Southeast Asia, is leaving the company after more than a decade, marking the departure of one of the social media giant’s senior regional business leaders. Devanathan announced her exit on LinkedIn, saying…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (125+ words) Independent media agency Hatched has created a national investment team, promoting Paul Wilkinson to national head of investment to lead the new five-person team across its Melbourne and Sydney operations. Wilkinson joined Hatched in 2023 and has spent the past three…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (678+ words) An odd thing has started happening recently. ChatGPT has started swearing. Not at me (well, not yet anyway). Instead, it has begun casually dropping the f-bomb into conversations about some of the most mundane things imaginable: a business idea for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1070+ words) Marketers are increasingly turning to AI for everyday work, from content creation and audience segmentation to influencer recommendations. For creators, that means the algorithmic game is changing. After years of optimising content to win on social platforms, they now face…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (315+ words) This week, Pocky is putting a snackable spin on Singapore’s classic breakfast combo, Anthropic is preparing to watermark text generated by future Claude models, and Instagram is refreshing its identity with its first wordmark update in a decade. Stick around,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (706+ words) Everyone loves the unmasking of a literary fraud. Words that were at one point lauded, in books presumably flying off shelves, are suddenly not worth the paper they’re printed on. The words didn’t change but the story of how they…...