AirAsia unveils website, app facelift and AI chat assistant

AirAsia head of Airline Product & Product Transformation Bo Kenneth Andersson, Group Head of Software Engineering, Elias Vafiadis, Customer Happiness Officer Adam Geneave, AirAsia Deputy Group CEO (Digital, Transformation and Corporate Services) Aireen Omar, and chief product officer Nikuni Shanti show off the AVA chatbot. Low-cost carrier AirAsia today unveiled a website [...]

January 29th, 2019|Categories: Venture Corner|

Costa Coffee under fire for packing vegan drinks with EIGHT teaspoons of sugar

Costa is under fire for their new Vegan Latte which can contain up to 32.4g of sugar. The dairy-free Vanilla Latte “massimo” size has 32.4g of sugar — eight teaspoons — when made with coconut milk. With almond milk it is 29.2g. NHS guidelines state people aged over 11 should have no more than [...]

January 28th, 2019|Categories: Venture Corner|

Amazon launching app that lets people try on clothes using virtual mannequins

The app would also analyse saved snaps and diaries to deduce a user’s job, climate, hobbies and meetings. It would propose new clothes with the dummy in them or accessories for their own. An Amazon UK patent bid says: “If a calendar event was entitled, ‘Business meeting with James’, images of professional wear may be selected. “If [...]

January 24th, 2019|Categories: Venture Corner|

Malaysia hopes to tap Japan’s expertise in AI investment

The prime minister had a meeting with Masayoshi Son, the founder of SoftBank, in Tokyo. Malaysia will seek Japan’s assistance on investment in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry in the quest to take its technologies to a more advanced level, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said. The prime minister said he had a [...]

December 26th, 2018|Categories: Venture Corner|
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