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Waze, the Google-owned navigation and mapping service, will lay off 5 per cent of its global workforce, said its CEO Noam Bardin in an email announcement to employees. This equates to about 30 people out of its 555-strong global workforce. It did not mention how many of its Singapore staff are …

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Chili Piper today announced it has raised $ 18 million to grow its sales platform for booking meetings and phone calls. With the fresh capital, Chili Piper plans to invest in product capabilities and expand its sales and marketing efforts …

Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Gong.io, a startup providing an “intelligence platform” for enterprise sales teams, today nabbed $ 200 million in funding at a $ 2.2 billion valuation, up from a $ 750 million valuation in December 2019 when the …

Have you ever gone online to look up what food a restaurant serves, or wanted to order takeout but couldn’t find their menus online? Even worse when you manage to find it, only to realise it’s outdated. That’s a problem MM Meal is trying to solve. It’s a locally developed …

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Ten years ago, tablet computers were marketed as the vanguard of the “post-PC” era, but traditional desktop and notebook PCs remained popular as tablet sales plateaued. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, tablets saw an unexpected …

Clearview AI will no longer sell its facial recognition software in Canada, according to government privacy officials investigating the company. The end of Clearview AI operations in Canada will also mean the end of the company’s contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, according to an announcement released today by …

Google will expand free shopping results from a narrow experiment in its shopping tab to the main search engine, dramatically expanding their reach. The company announced the move today in a blog post written by commerce president Bill Ready. The shift is part of a continuous move away from paid …

Photo by Willy Barton / Shutterstock.com The coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives in many ways, some temporary and others likely permanent. Brick-and-mortar retailers have been hit particularly hard by shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, with another company filing for bankruptcy protection seemingly every week. Many of these retailers plan to …

Photo by Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock.com A handful of retailers have filed for bankruptcy protection since the coronavirus pandemic started. In most cases, the companies are seeking to restructure their businesses to better position themselves to compete post-coronavirus, rather than to liquidate and fold. But reorganizing doesn’t guarantee success, and the …