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Gpay said it will not be "burning cash" to fight for a higher market share, but will serve G-Group’s 30 million users currently using various services on its digital ecosystem, which includes peer-to-peer lending firm Tima, digital media firm Beat.vn, and social networking app Gapo. … [Read more...] about E-payment startup Gpay bags funding from South Korean investor

No news for those excluded so far - As many as 2.9million people have slipped through the gaps in support between the self employment grant and furlough - including PAYE freelancers, limited company directors, new-starter self-employed and more. Martin thinks SEISS grant 4 may be tweaked to include more people, but that's not certain at this point. … [Read more...] about Martin Lewis releases guide to what everyone needs to know about lockdown finances

Yesterday, Mr. Le Huynh Minh Tu led a delegation to visit and work with key enterprises that supply pork products, poultry meat, and eggs for the city market at the peak of the upcoming Lunar New Year festival. Mr. Nguyen Trong Tri, Deputy Chief Customer Officer of C.P Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company, said that in 2020 C.P raised its production by more than 10 percent compared to 2019. Every day, the company supplies to the HCMC market around 3,000-3,500 porkers, accounting for about 30 percent of pork demand in the city. Explaining the constant increase in the price of live pigs, Mr. Tri said that currently, the price of live hogs not only escalates in Vietnam but in Thailand, it is also approaching VND82,500 per kilogram. Especially in China, the price is much higher than that in Vietnam, prompting traders to transport live hogs heavily to this country. As for the HCMC market, C.P commits to fully providing pigs during the upcoming festive season. On the other hand, the … [Read more...] about No shortage of fresh food for upcoming Lunar New Year festival

BENGALURU: The newly formed Indian alliance, Atamnirbhar Digital India Foundation (ADIF), has written to the government, saying it should conduct a data audit of WhatsApp and its parent firm, the social media giant, on user data flowing outside India.ADIF was formed to fight BigTech firms like Facebook and Google. It is an internet body that’s been set up by local entrepreneurs and investors to create a level playing field for Indian startups. It also aims to work with the government on regulatory and legal aspects of policy making in light of increased competition from major US firms.“Government may conduct an audit through CERT-In (government agency) to check any sharing of data of individual or business users with Facebook and its subsidiaries. Since WhatsApp proposes to share business interaction details of Indian customers with its group companies like Facebook, WhatsApp should be prohibited from offering any services which deal with personal sensitive data of Indian … [Read more...] about Desi startup alliance ADIF seeks data audit of WhatsApp, Facebook

Looking for clues People are still hugely reliant on clues and weaknesses in the presentation of online content as ways to detect misinformation. For example, many participants told us they watch for things like bad spelling and grammar and flaws in the interface (like unprofessional designs) as ways to identify if something is not quite right. Unfortunately, in the age of sophisticated and convincing misinformation attacks, this technique might not be as successful as it once was. … [Read more...] about Twitter, Facebook, and Google could combat disinformation with this simple design tweak