UAE Lender RAKBANK Offers Retail Customers Crypto With Bitpanda

RAKBANK, one of the oldest lenders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is allowing retail customers access to cryptocurrencies through a partnership with Vienna-based crypto exchange Bitpanda, the companies said on Tuesday. Users can now access Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and Ripple (XRP) via RAKBANK’s mobile banking app, with plan to expand to … Read more

Apple Beats US Appeal Claiming It Shortchanged Customers on iCloud Storage

A US federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected claims by Apple customers that the iPhone maker gave them less iCloud data storage than they paid for when upgrading. In a 3-0 decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said reasonable consumers in the proposed class action would not have been misled … Read more

Microsoft ‘Data Boundary’ for EU Cloud Customers to Be Rolled Out on January 1

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from January 1. The phased rollout of its “EU data boundary” will apply to all of its core cloud services – Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power BI platform. Big businesses … Read more

Adidas and Stepn Grant Limited Genesis NFT Sneakers to Web3 Customers via Mooar Marketplace

Adidas has entered into a partnership with Stepn, a Solana-based move-to-earn application, to offer generative NFTs to users. As a product of this partnership, a new NFT collection featuring Adidas sneakers was launched on Wednesday. For Adidas, creating digital avatars of their popular sneakers as NFTs is a way of connecting with the newer and … Read more

Apple Introduces App Store ‘Win-Back Offers’ Allowing Developers to Prompt Customers to Re-Subscribe

Apple on Tuesday announced support for a new App Store feature that will allow developers to prompt former app users to sign up for a paid subscription again. These so-called ‘win-back offers’ will allow app developers to offer a discount to previous users in order to convince them to purchase a subscription. These offers will … Read more

Here’s How Amazon is Making Purchase Experience Better for Customers Ahead of Great Indian Festival Sale

Amazon is all set to hold one of its most significant festive sales in India for 2024. Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale will kickstart for customers on September 27. However, Prime members can get early access to the deals and discounts starting September 26, 2024, at midnight, like always. The e-commerce giant is projecting itself … Read more

US CFTC Orders Fallen Crypto Exchange FTX to Pay $12.7 Billion to Customers

A US court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7 billion (roughly Rs. 1,06,572 crore) in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday. FTX drew customers in with “an illusion that it was a safe and secure place to access crypto markets,” then misappropriated their customer deposits to … Read more

Amazon Bedrock Drew Customers to Try Out AI Service Competing With Microsoft and Google

Amazon.com‘s cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft and Google in a key area of artificial intelligence, an executive told Reuters. The company also announced new AI tools on Wednesday, including a program for building more conversational customer-service agents, technology access from the startup Cohere and a … Read more