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Innoviti processes over $10 billion in transactions annually across more than 2,000 cities in India.  Innoviti Technologies, an Indian fintech startup, is exploring a fresh funding round that could potentially value the company at approximately $350 million, Bloomberg reported on June 28, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, the company seeks to raise around $25 million in the financing round to boost its business offerings and increase its market dominance....

The latest announcement means that Tencent and Ant want to allow visitors to make payments with different vendors in China. Foreigners can now easily pay for goods and services in China as payment giants Tencent and Ant Group said users can directly link international credit cards to their platforms. Therefore, tourists can connect their pay via the two dominant mobile pay apps- Tencent’s WeChat Pay and Ant Group’s Alipay. Over the years, China’s payment system has kept credit cards out of...

The head of Google’s cloud division has said the company’s discussions with the EU will help create a “path forward” for AI development. Google is currently in productive talks with authorities in the European Union (EU) about artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. The company and EU regulators are having early discussions about designing safe AI technology. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian told CNBC that the conversations are for the progress of the technology. Kurian also noted that the...

Despite a few headwinds Wise has recently faced, the company’s stock jumped after revealing a spike in profits and revenue. British fintech online money transfer firm Wise’s (LON: WISE) stock jumped almost 18% on Tuesday in reaction to a rise in company profits. In a recent statement, the London-based fintech noted that its profit before tax tripled to £146.5 million ($186.5 million). The company also reported that its earnings per share tripled to 11.53 pence. According to data from...

WhatsApp Business is introducing new paid features as it announces its monthly active users are now more than 200 million. Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp Business, a version of the instant messaging app built for small businesses, now has over 200 million users. According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, this is a 4x jump from three years ago. In 2020, 2 years after its launch, WhatsApp Business announced a monthly active user (MAU) count of 50 million. Meta is now touting the advantages of...

The result of the AGIEval and C-Eval tests shows that Ernie 3.5 achieved higher scores than other large models, including ChatGPT, and surpassed GPT-4. Competition in the AI market heats up as China’s Baidu said its AI model Ernie 3.5 beats the popular OpenAI’s ChatGPT AND GPT-4 on key tests. The Chinese internet company unveiled the Ernie bot at an event in March. At the time of the announcement, CEO Robin Li said that the new product was imperfect and would continue to improve as people...

Mizuho Bank said that it will use the AI tool in the bank’s brokerage unit. The Japanese banking giant will conduct an “ideathon” next month and brainstorm various ways to experiment with the technology. On Tuesday, June 27, Japan’s third-largest banking institution Mizuho declared that it will allow all of its 45,000 employees in Japan to use Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI from this week. This will make the Mizuho Group the first financial company in Japan to use generative AI. Niu Dujungang,...

If implemented, it will mark the third round of layoffs for Robinhood in just over one year. The brokerage firm laid off 9% of its workers in April 2022 and 23% in August of the same year. Robinhood plans to lay off some part of its staff as it seeks to reduce the cost of operations due to the reduction in demand it is experiencing. Many current workers were employed to fill various needed roles during the Covid era. During that time, there was a huge demand for cryptocurrency trading and...

The state-owned Aramco believes that the oil demand forecast for the rest of 2023 is solid even though metrics point to a dwindling economy. Saudi-owned oil and gas firm Saudi Aramco has a strong outlook on oil for the rest of the year as it anticipates healthy demand from India and China. Saudi Aramco predicts strong demand from both countries regardless of an economic retraction expected in global markets. Speaking at the Energy Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur, Aramco CEO Amin Nasser...

Berkshire Hathaway purchased 225 million of the EV maker’s shares for $230 million in 2008. American multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) sold 2.52 million shares of Chinese EV maker BYD listed in Hong Kong on the 19th of June. A stock exchange filing revealed that the investment company sold the shares for HKUS$ 675.80 million, equaling $86.3 million. Berkshire Cuts China’s BYD Shares Holdings Following the sale of the BYD share, Berkshire Hathaway’s holdings in the...