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• November 2023: Amazon announced a partnership with Meta (Facebook’s parent company) to revolutionize social commerce. This collaboration aims to integrate Amazon’s e-commerce platform with Meta’s social media platform, providing shoppers with a seamless purchase experience and opening new opportunities for targeted advertising.
• April 2023: Amazon and Pinterest partnered to deliver third-party ads on Pinterest’s platform. The partnership aimed to make every pin shoppable by integrating Amazon’s e-commerce platform with Pinterest’s social media platform.
• December 2022: Amazon announced the release of Inspire, a new short-form photo and video feed that lets users browse ideas and goods while shopping from content made by brands, influencers, and other users.

• May 2023: Revel Systems, the premier cloud point of sale (POS) and comprehensive business management platform is excited to announce a partnership with IPORT to offer its best-in-class products to restaurants and retailers. IPORT's stands and enclosures for Apple iPads streamline networking, charging, tablet protection, and presentation
• February 2023: NPN and Oddle's Partnership is Revolutionizing Restaurant Payment. Together, they are simplifying the point-of-purchase experience for restaurants and empowering them to grow their businesses. With their shared focus on providing cutting-edge hardware and software solutions, NPN and Oddle are transforming how restaurants process payments. By leveraging SUNMI Android payment hardware and stripe payment processing, they deliver a seamless and secure payment experience for restaurants and their customers.

• December 2023 - In cooperation with RPC, IBA Group launched mobile payment acceptance at Raiffeisenbank Hrvatska in Croatia. This marks the seventh country in the RBI Banking Group to introduce the tapXphone solution for accepting payments via a smartphone. The RaiPOS application allows sellers to accept all contactless payments, including those requiring PIN code authorization. The security of the payments made through the application is confirmed and certified by the MasterCard and Visa payment systems.
• September 2023 - Cashfree Payments, India's payments and API banking company, announced the UPI Plug-in launch, enabling mobile-first firms to collect UPI payments from customers without needing them to exit the application. This solution has been created in partnership with NPCI and Axis Bank, ensuring complete security and compliance. By prioritizing speed, security, and convenience in UPI payments, the companies are pushing the boundaries of innovation and advancing toward improving digital payments to benefit India's businesses and economy.

• June 2023 - American tech giant Amazon has committed to investing an additional USD 15 billion in India over the next seven years. This will take the company’s total India investment across all businesses to USD 26 billion. Amazon has already invested USD 11 billion in India. The company has pledged to digitize 10 million small businesses, enable USD 20 billion in exports, and create two million jobs in India by 2025.
• January 2023 - Ecommerce major Flipkart’s Singapore-based parent has invested INR 722 Cr (USD 90 Mn) in its Indian marketplace arm. The fresh capital was raised from two entities – Flipkart Marketplace Private Limited and Flipkart Private Limited, which are domiciled in Singapore.

• June 2023 - Alibaba has announced the expansion of local business in Europe. It would split into six units and explore fundraising or listings for most of them following a two-year regulatory crackdown on China's tech sector.
• February 2023: eMAG developed a 100,000-120,000 square meter logistics hub near Budapest, claimed to be the largest of this type in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), according to a company's press release. The investment is estimated at EUR 100 million.

• February 2023: According to Eurostat, In 2022, 91% of EU citizens aged 16 to 74 had accessed the internet, with 75% purchasing or ordering products or services for personal use. The proportion of e-shoppers increased by 20 percentage points (pp) from 55% in 2012 to 75% in 2022. The highest shares of internet users who ordered goods or services or bought over the internet in 2022 were recorded in the Netherlands (92%)
• September 2022: DHL signed an agreement to acquire a majority investment in Dutch e-commerce specialist Monta to establish a solid collaboration and expand Monta's e-fulfillment services internationally, particularly for small and medium-sized webshops.

• May 2023: Motorola Solutions announced the launch of its advanced V700 body camera with mobile broadband capabilities to give public safety agencies another critical source of real-time field intelligence and collaboration. Critical evidence might be recovered after an incident even if a recording was not initiated through the Record-After-The-Fact feature. AI may be applied during evidence analysis to transcribe footage for a clear record of events.
• April 2023: Axon Enterprise Inc. announced the launch of an advanced body-worn camera (BWC), the Axon Body 4 (AB4). The product is a communications beacon that enables law enforcement to live stream their situations intuitively.

• May 2023 - Etoro announced the launch of InsuranceWorld, a portfolio offering retail investors long-term exposure to the insurance sector. InsuranceWorld is a new addition to eToro's existing offering of portfolios, which already provides exposure to traditional financial sectors, such as private equity, big banks, and real estate trusts.
• April 2023 - Twitter, a US-based company, partnered with the cryptocurrency exchange eToro to allow users to trade stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other assets on the social network's platform by using the online platform services offered by eToro, which would generate new revenue streams for the market vendors.

• April 2023: PayPal Holdings, Inc announced the addition of its New Features to Its Complete Payments Solution for small businesses. PayPal will also give small businesses access to four new features to help them drive payment acceptance and enhance how they run their business. This will include Apple Pay as a checkout option2, the ability for customers to save payment methods with the PayPal vault for faster future checkout, and a real-time account updater to help customers keep their payment methods up to date.
• February 2023: Fawry provided FawryPay reference code service to My Fatoorah customers and merchants in the Egyptian market as increasing demand in the Egyptian market among users towards electronic payment solutions and options, where Fatoorah offers a wide range of electronic payment solutions at the regional level, which in turn are expected to enrich the payments market with many advanced services and technologies in terms of digital payment solutions.

• April 2023: TMON announced that the company would open a 'Sports & Leisure Special Hall" and introduce popular sports and outdoor items at exceptional prices. An additional 8% discount was also available when paying with Kakao Pay. This is expected to help athletic people stretch in warm spring weather.
• February 2023: JD.com, Inc. announced this week that it launched "ChatJD," an industrial version of ChatGPT focused on the vertical industrial fields of retail and finance. The industrial ChatJD will likely roll out through one platform, two areas, and five applications. It is expected to build a human-computer dialogue platform that understands and generates tasks in natural language processing, with parameters estimated to total hundreds of billions.