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...OpenAI’s groundbreaking products, ChatGPT and Dall-E, have captured the world’s imagination and will fundamentally change how we work, learn and express ourselves creatively....
...To get there, Ant is building Alipay+ into a universal QR code, so a Korean user of KakaoPay e-wallet or a Malaysian user of Touch ‘n Go e-wallet can pay for a taxi in Singapore by scanning the Alipay+ code...
...The Bahamas has the Sand Dollar, Nigeria launched the eNaira last October and China is close to launching the digital renminbi, or e-CNY, after trialling it at February’s winter Olympics....
...Its Dutch rival VanMoof announced a $128m funding round back in September and this week reported reservations for its forthcoming VanMoof V high-speed e-bike had hit 10,000, just three months after it was...
...Tech tools — VanMoof S5 and A5 Ahead of its introduction of the VanMoof V high-speed e-bike later this year, the Dutch company has unveiled new versions of its existing e-bikes today....
...Surely, at this point, there is no doubt that this is an “asset class” that needs to be taken v e r y s e r i o u s l y indeed. Institutional investors are getting involved!...
...Tech tools — VanMoof V e-bike Dutch e-bike brand VanMoof today unveiled its entry into the high-speed bike category....
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...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
...Email us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...The art fair group is also offering its services to S.E.A. Focus, an art fair in Singapore (January 15-23)....
...Similar examples can be found in London’s V&A and the White House, Smith notes....
...The fair has recently launched a year-round digital platform for exhibitors, as well as an “E-talks” programme....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery, at best, this is going to be a U-shaped.”...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...The dramatic effect of the lockdown supercharged the use of digital technologies. As a result, the prospects for a V-shaped recovery have brightened....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...While the final version eschewed the digital dollar in the end, it seems Senator Sherrod Brown will keep fighting for a public rival to Libra and other efforts to establish private e-currencies....
...(ii) The geographic mix (i.e. UK better, France poorer) helped as did Computacenter’s vertical market range (i.e. Public Sector spend better/Industrials weaker)....
...Investment priorities included Germany’s patchy digital infrastructure, and the need to refurbish old, draughty buildings to make them more energy-efficient, he added....
...As one of the leading video game companies, we believe Ubisoft is positioned to benefit from several favorable industry trends (i.e., mix shift to digital, higher engagement, upcoming platform cycle)....
...An e-signature cannot be used by the testator to sign the will and it cannot be witnessed via video call or other digital means....
...We also foresee a dramatic boost to digital and real-time payments. E-commerce, tap-to-pay, and P2P apps will likely increasingly become the standard for people’s consumption and banking behaviors....
...Profitability was impacted by lower revenues/higher operating costs (largely investment in digital) although marketing was down 23% YoY....
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
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