Asia’s Payments, E-Commerce & Banking Leaders to Gather Live Online in June, to Chart the Future of Commerce in the Region

Singapore, Jun 15, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Seamless Asia (www.terrapinn.com/virtual/seamless-asia/index.stm) returns live online this 22-23 June, gathering over 1,700 attendees virtually to explore the latest innovations in Asia across the payments, e-commerce and banking sectors.

"With digital payments in Asia forecast to exceed US$350 billion by 2026, e-commerce spending in Southeast Asia expected to reach US$180 billion by 2025 and more than 40 million new users joining the internet economy every year, there's never been a more exciting time in commerce," says Paul Clark, Managing Director – Asia for Terrapinn. "Over the last two years, these sectors have been at the forefront of innovation – now it's time to make sure they are positioning themselves for a post- pandemic era and securing their future growth. Seamless Asia offers them exactly that."

Seamless Asia will bring together over 100 expert speakers across six key content pillars: payments innovation, e-commerce strategy, online payments, e-commerce marketing, banking and financial inclusion. Attendees will enjoy free access to all sessions on the platform, and all sessions will be available for on-demand viewing for one month after the event, truly offering attendees a chance to fit the event around their own schedule. Speakers at the event include:

– Bonnie Mak, Head of eCommerce, Samsung
– Julian Foo, Head of Payments & Instore, ShopBack
– Theodora Lai, Chief Strategy Officer, Burpple
– Brad Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Wave Money
– Vrutika Mody, Head of Global Partnerships, GoPay
– Kannan Rajaratnam, Regional Director of Payments & Customer Operations, Zalora
– Jessica Lam, Chief Strategy Officer, WeLab
– Dmitry Bocharov, Chief Product Officer, BigPay
– Sarita Singh, Regional Head & Managing Director, Southeast Asia, Stripe
– Cecilia Chan, Head of Marketing Hong Kong, Carousell Group
– Dennis Valdes, President, Cebuana Lhuillier Bank
– Kristy Duncan, Founder & CEO, Women in Payments
– Arvie de Vera, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, UnionDigital
– Loek Berendsen, Global Platform Strategy Leader, IKEA
– Esel de Sagun-Madrid, Head of Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Metrobank
– Karthick Chandrasekar, Head of Product & Commercial, Digital Payments Group, DBS Bank
– Sonal Kapoor, Senior Director, Flipkart
– Kell Jay Lim, Head of Grab Financial Group (FinTech), Grab
– Jean Thomas, Chief Marketing Officer, Pomelo Fashion
– Debbie Watkins, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, LUCY

More than 30 sponsors, exhibitors & partners are supporting this year's virtual edition of Seamless Asia, including Title Sponsor Stripe, returning for the third year, Customer Retention Sponsor CleverTap and Platinum Sponsors Limelight Networks & Zendesk. All sponsors & exhibitors will be hosting a virtual booth on the platform for attendees to find out more about their products and services. Attendees will get a chance to interact directly with their teams.

Details of the two-days event are as follows:
Seamless Asia 2022
22-23 June 2022 | Virtual Free-to-Attend

About Terrapinn

Terrapinn has been sparking ideas, innovations and relationships that transform business for over 30 years. Using our global footprint, we bring innovators, disrupters and change agents together, discussing and demonstrating the technology, strategies and personalities that are changing the way the world does business. Whether you're looking to make new connections, introduce product or inspire change in your industry, we invite you to join us as agitators of change. Terrapinn – spark something.

Press attendance is complimentary. Enquiries should be directed to:
Jia Le Lim
Marketing Manager
Terrapinn Asia
jiale.lim@terrapinn.com

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S.id, Combination of Link Shortener and Microsite in One Platform, Ready to Launch

JAKARTA, Jun 14, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – A link shortening platform or a link shortener called S.id officially launched its newest feature, microsite, in mid-April 2022. This feature will make it easier for users, especially content creators or online businesses, to promote their service products through social media links. For example, Instagram and Tiktok.

Ruby Alamsyah, President Director of PT. Aidi Digital Global (PT ADG), the developer of the S.id platform, said the addition of features on the S.id platform aims to make it easier for users to support digital marketing needs.

"Currently, if we want to make a link shortener and bio link, we have to use two platforms. However, the addition of the microsite feature on S.id makes users only need to use one platform. As a result, it is easier and more practical to use for marketing tools," Ruby said.

The features that can be enjoyed using the microsite on S.id include several attractive themes and creating unique microsite names and links; several components can be included: text, links, images, videos, and horizontal links (links). social media) and can also view statistics on the progress of microsite links, such as data on the number of visitors, visitors per click, or unique visitors.

Of course, all views on the microsite can be changed as desired without any limitations.

S.id Marketing Manager Dimaz Maulana added that the microsite feature is currently still in Beta status or the development stage. "Unlike the link shortener, released in 2015, the microsite feature is still in the beta version stage but can be used properly. We hope that users can use them while providing feedback on the microsite features so that we can develop these features, to provide an optimal experience for users in the future." Dimaz said.

In contrast to similar products, S.id has its uniqueness in its system because S.id has two unlimited free features in one platform, namely microsite, and link shortener. This will make it very easy for you to use the two main features in one account, very practical and accessible.

Apart from being a bio link, the S.id microsite also functions to accommodate multiple links into one place that their followers can reach. For example, you can promote your online store on the S.id microsite by adding online store links, reviews, social media links, and company profiles that potential buyers can reach.

S.id also helps users shorten long links to be shorter, unique, and neat.

S.id was initially only a link shortener and only intended for users in the country. Until now, S.id has helped more than 400 thousand users with access to as many as 30 million accesses per month to realize a digital experience in meeting the needs of global users and continue to do various developments.

Ruby hopes that the S.id service will become a marketing tool used at home and abroad.

"We hope that S.id can become a digital product of pride for the Indonesian people and also be used massively by foreign people so that they can make local products go global." Close Ruby.

In introducing further the benefits of the S.id service, currently, S.id is opening a competition for all circles of society to use the features available in S.id. Not just a helpful competition, S.id also presents competition prizes with up to 17 million. For more information about this competition, you can visit http://S.id/lombamicrosite and register right away!

You can access the S.id service via the https://S.id link and register your S.id account to enjoy all the best features. S.id, The Shortest Link Shortener, and Microsite Builder!

About S.id

S.id is a platform for people to show their expertise in creating microsites and shortening the shortest links with the code s.id/. Not only an online content application, but S.id is also a marketing tool that makes it easier for people, especially content creators, influencers, brands, or company marketers, to share information, knowledge, expertise, and product knowledge that is marketed to everyone through the features provided by S.id.

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CleverTap Completes Acquisition of Leanplum

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, Jun 13, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – CleverTap, world's No.1 retention cloud, today announced it has completed its acquisition of San Francisco based Leanplum, a leading multi-channel customer engagement platform.

The acquisition, originally announced on 19 th May, was closed in a record time of 3 weeks. With this acquisition, CleverTap has strengthened its footprint in the US and Europe. CleverTap will combine the product stack of both organizations and extend its world-class solutions and technology to all its customers and prospects worldwide. Momchil Kyurkchiev, Co-Founder of Leanplum, has joined CleverTap's leadership team as Chief Strategy Officer.

With the completion of the acquisition, CleverTap also welcomes marquee investors Norwest Partners, Shasta Ventures, Canaan, and Kleiner Perkins as its shareholders. The acquisition becomes revenue accretive for CleverTap from June 1st 2022.

"We are very excited to welcome Momchil and all Leanplum employees to the CleverTap family and expect full integration of the two companies, including an integrated product in the market to get completed over the next 3-4 quarters," says Sunil Thomas, CleverTap Co-founder and Executive Chairman. "With this acquisition Customers will now have a wide variety of product features and options to choose, from the best of both product line-ups (A/B Testing, Segmentation,Campaigns, Journeys etc.) At the same time, the acquisition provides a much bigger growth, exposure and learning opportunities for employees and collectively we will now become a dominant force with a large global footprint".

"The Martech landscape the world over is evolving at an exponential rate and hyper-personalized digital engagement at scale is the need of the hour. I am sure that together, Leanplum and CleverTap will address this need and continue to drive innovation in this space. CleverTap and Leanplum individually have had a robust presence in terms of geographical reach, industries, and categories. Collectively we will now become a dominant force with a large global footprint," says Momchil Kyurkchiev, Chief Strategy Officer at CleverTap.

"As we expand globally, we are looking to retain as well as grow 100% of the Leanplum customers by bringing all combined capability on one platform in due course. We also plan to increase our headcount in the US and Europe. Together, we aspire to be recognized as a SaaS talent powerhouse built on a strong people-first culture driven by values and equality," added Sunil.

About CleverTap

CleverTap is the modern, integrated retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. CleverTap drives contextual individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights and automation enabling brands to offer hyper-personalized and delightful experiences to their customers. 1200+ Customers in 60+ countries and 10,000+ apps, including Gojek, ShopX, Canon, Mercedes Benz, Electronics Arts, TED, Jio, Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, Papa John's, and Tesco, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long-term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, Sofia, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Amsterdam, Jakarta and Dubai. For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Media Contact:
Sony Shetty
CleverTap
sony@clevertap.com

Vishaal Mudholkar
Archetype
Consultant
vishaal.mudholkar@archetype.co

Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release may represent CleverTap's belief in connection with future events and may be forward-looking statements, or statements of future expectations based on currently available information. CleverTap cautions that such statements are naturally subject to risks and uncertainties that could amount in the actual result being absolutely different from the results anticipated by the statements mentioned in the press release. Factors such as the development of general economic conditions affecting our business, future market conditions, our ability to maintain cost advantages, uncertainty with respect to earnings, corporate actions, client concentration, reduced demand, liability or damages in our service contracts, unusual catastrophic loss events, war, political instability, changes in government policies or laws, legal restrictions impacting our business, impact of pandemic, epidemic, any natural calamity and other factors that are naturally beyond our control, changes in the capital markets and other circumstances may cause the actual events or results to be materially different, from those anticipated by such statements. CleverTap does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or updated or revised status of such statements. Therefore, in no case whatsoever will CleverTap and its affiliate companies be liable to anyone for any decision made or action taken in conjunction with the information and/or statements in this press release or any related damages.

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Retention Cloud Leader CleverTap Unveils TesseractDB

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, Jun 8, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – CleverTap, the world's No. 1 retention cloud, today announced it has unveiled TesseractDB(TM), the world's first purpose-built database designed to dramatically improve user engagement and retention for digital consumer brands. TesseractDB(TM) brings true technology innovation to growth marketing leaders looking to deliver in-context, timely, personalized messaging and recommendations across all user touchpoints.

TesseractDB(TM) transforms massive amounts of first-party user data in a privacy-friendly, accessible, and affordable way to power real-time user personalization. Leveraging machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it offers limitless scale and enables digital brands and businesses to harness data and context for every interaction. User engagement and retention start from Day One when a user launches an app for the first time.

Research estimates that nearly 85% of all messaging is considered spam, an average of about 122 billion messages globally. About 36% of spam content is generated from ill-timed, non-personalized marketing messages. This problem continues to be prevalent due to the limited data technologies that are patently unable to store the massive volumes of first-party data required to offer a truly personal customer experience.

"Today, we are excited to unveil TesseractDB(TM), the data technology that powers the CleverTap platform. It will allow global growth marketing teams to achieve true omni-channel customer engagement," said Sunil Thomas, CleverTap Co-founder and Executive Chairman. "In the last 40 years, MarTech vendors have cobbled together generic off-the-shelf data technologies in an effort to solve issues for end-user messaging. These technologies have been limiting, and as a result, brands simply cannot fully unlock their own user data for real and meaningful relationship building. To transition away from the spam and transactional communication that is so prevalent in MarTech today, we must make user data available, affordable, and easily accessible. This is why we invented TesseractDB(TM)."

TesseractDB(TM) is a giant technological leap that removes all data related limitations typically associated with the MarTech industry. Using TesseractDB(TM), digital brands can offer each user a magical onboarding experience and continue to deliver delightful experiences throughout their journey.

TesseractDB(TM) enables CleverTap to offer unmatched technology, features, and capabilities –

– Unlimited data look back periods without any limitations
– High speed, scale, and unmatched throughput
– Rich, granular first-party user data storage
– Built-in real-time machine learning and AI
– Hyper-personalized engagement and recommendations

"Until now, data look back and access limitations, created by overages and cost, prevented brands from unlocking the full potential of first-party user data for engagement. This is a deep tech and science problem. With TesseractDB(TM), CleverTap provides the industry's most versatile segmentation and data processing engine for mobile engagement," says Momchil Kyurkchiev, Chief Strategy Officer, CleverTap. He adds, "TesseractDB(TM) is designed to provide MarTech professionals a cost-effective and efficient way to capture unlimited data streams and deliver actionable insights and analytics to drive personalization and engagement."

About CleverTap

CleverTap is the modern, integrated retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. For brands that understand and value user retention, CleverTap drives context and individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights and automation. Customers worldwide representing over 10,000 apps, including Premier League, Bolt, Truecaller, Current Mobile, Trebel, Ze Delivery, TitleMax, YouNow, Albo, Vodafone Idea, SonyLIV, Gojek, Carousell, and Premier League, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia India, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, and Dubai. For more information, visit https://clevertap.com/ or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Media Contact:
Sony Shetty
CleverTap
sony@clevertap.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release may represent CleverTap's belief in connection with future events and may be forward-looking statements, or statements of future expectations based on currently available information. CleverTap cautions that such statements are naturally subject to risks and uncertainties that could amount in the actual result being absolutely different from the results anticipated by the statements mentioned in the press release. Factors such as the development of general economic conditions affecting our business, future market conditions, our ability to maintain cost advantages, uncertainty with respect to earnings, corporate actions, client concentration, reduced demand, liability or damages in our service contracts, unusual catastrophic loss events, war, political instability, changes in government policies or laws, legal restrictions impacting our business, impact of pandemic, epidemic, any natural calamity and other factors that are naturally beyond our control, changes in the capital markets and other circumstances may cause the actual events or results to be materially different, from those anticipated by such statements. CleverTap does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or updated or revised status of such statements. Therefore, in no case whatsoever will CleverTap and its affiliate companies be liable to anyone for any decision made or action taken in conjunction with the information and/or statements in this press release or any related damages.

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Asian Accountants in Practice to Gather Virtually This Month to Transform Accounting Practices Through Technology

Singapore, Jun 6, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – The Digital Practice Summit 2022 returns live online this 15th June. Asia's only dedicated event focusing on technology transformation for accounting, bookkeeping, audit and corporate service firms, the Summit will bring together over 700 leaders virtually, to learn, network and develop strategies for success.

Throughout the day, attendees can choose from over 20 presentations and live discussion sessions, delivered by pacesetting firms who have transformed the way they work through technology. All the solution providers serious about supporting Asian accounting firms in their digitalisation journey will be there.

"As businesses continue to change the way they work and with an increased focus on new technology, it's essential that the accounting players supporting those businesses are maximizing efficiencies and helping to drive this transformation in the finance function," says Paul Clark, Managing Director – Asia for Terrapinn. "The Digital Practice Summit is the perfect place for accountants and bookkeepers in practice to learn more about the latest technology innovations and explore how they can help them better serve their clients."

With two channels of content, focusing on Business Advisory and Practice Management, attendees can choose where they want to spend their time, and can watch any missed sessions on-demand for a month after the event. Expert speakers (www.terrapinn.com/virtual/digital-practice-summit/2022-Speakers.stm) who will be sharing their insights include:

– Aly Garrett, Founder, All In Advisory
– Sarah Lawrence, Founder & Managing Director, Hot Toast
– Daniel Hustler, Education Manager, Xero Asia
– Kevin Fitzgerald, Chief Revenue Officer, Spenmo
– Kooi Fai Siow, Managing Director, Eximius Ventures
– Kyelie Baxter, Managing Partner, IQ Accountants
– Yeong Seng Lim, KLP LLP
– Paul Gardner, CEO, Fresh Accounting
– Alvin Lip, Chief Financial Officer, Aspire
– YC Eng, Managing Director, YesBoss
– Willy Tan, Managing Director, Forbis Accounting
– Michelle Lombard, Chief Financial Officer, Tatler Asia
– Heather Smith, Founder, ANISE Consulting
– Lily Hii, Founder, Bookkeeping by Lily

Title Sponsor Xero, Platinum Sponsors Aspire, Intuit Quickbooks and Spenmo and more will be on hand to share more about how their technology is driving transformation in accounting. In addition to hearing their insights live on the platform, attendees will be able to visit their virtual booths to find out more and engage with their teams.

Details of the one-day virtual summit are as follows:
Digital Practice Summit Asia 2022 (www.terrapinn.com/virtual/digital-practice-summit/index.stm)
15 June 2022 | Virtual
Free-to-Attend

About Terrapinn

Terrapinn has been sparking ideas, innovations and relationships that transform business for over 30 years. Using our global footprint, we bring innovators, disrupters and change agents together, discussing and demonstrating the technology, strategies and personalities that are changing the way the world does business. Whether you're looking to make new connections, introduce product or inspire change in your industry, we invite you to join us as agitators of change. Terrapinn – spark something.

Press attendance is complimentary. Enquiries should be directed to:
Jia Le Lim
Marketing Manager
Terrapinn Asia
jiale.lim@terrapinn.com

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Society Pass (SoPa) Acquires Singapore-based Gorilla Networks, a Next-Gen Blockchain/Web3 Mobile Virtual Network Operator to Drive SEA’s Growing Demand for a New Meta-Economy Experience

SINGAPORE, Jun 3, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Society Pass Incorporated ("SoPa") (Nasdaq: SOPA), Southeast Asia's leading data driven loyalty and ecommerce ecosystem, announced today that it acquired Singapore-based Gorilla Networks Pte Ltd ("Gorilla"), a leading next generation Web3-enabled MVNO.

Established in Singapore in 2019, Gorilla utilises Web3 technology to operate a MVNO for its users in Southeast Asia. With network coverage to over 160 countries, Gorilla offers a full suite of mobile communication services such as local calls, international roaming, data, and SMS texting. More importantly, Gorilla enables its customers to convert unused mobile data into digital assets or Gorilla GO Tokens through its innovative proprietary blockchain-based SwitchBack feature. Gorilla GO Tokens in turn can be redeemed for eVouchers, to offset future bills, or be redeemed for other value-added services.

With the rebound of the travel market throughout Southeast Asia in 2Q/3Q 2022, Gorilla expects to dramatically increase its customer base by marketing to the region's business and leisure travellers with its user-friendly technology platform. It plans to expand its MVNO services offering to Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia over the next 12 months.

Dennis Nguyen, Society Pass Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, explained, "We are excited to make our first acquisition in Singapore, and welcome Gorilla into our SoPa family. Gorilla's technology platform aligns well with our acquisition strategy as we incorporate Gorilla's blockchain and Web3 capabilities onto the SoPa ecosystem and enable the new meta-economy for all our portfolio companies. From our Leflair lifestyle e-commerce platform to our Pushkart/Handycart F&B delivery services, as we roll out the Society Pass loyalty platform in the coming months, we leverage Gorilla's technology to drive customer retention for merchants and create innovative revenue models for our ecosystem."

"When we started Gorilla Networks three years ago, our vision was to build a democratised mobile communications service platform where users regardless of nationality, home location or mobile subscription plans can access essential telecoms services such as roaming and mobile data anywhere and everywhere throughout the world. Gorilla is currently transitioning existing web 2 telco services onto the web3 economy by tokenising mobile data as digital assets. In 2021, we digitised eSIMS, data plans, and mobile numbers as NFTs, which dramatically transformed how our users purchase, interact and experience mobile services. By joining forces with SoPa's extensive ecosystem and large user base in Southeast Asia, we are thrilled about the combined marketing capabilities we will now bring collectively to our partners and customers," exclaimed Xanne Leo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gorilla Networks.

Society Pass leverages cutting edge technology to tailor an unprecedented experience for the next generation customers in the purchase journey and to transform the entire retail value chain in Southeast Asia. Through the acquisitions of market-leading companies and partnerships with visionary entrepreneurs in six distinct B2C e-commerce verticals: lifestyle, food & beverage delivery, travel, digital marketing, telecoms and food and beverage ordering, the Company meets SEA's growing demand for a new meta-economy experience.

About Society Pass

As a loyalty and data marketing ecosystem, Society Pass operates multiple e-commerce platforms across its key markets in SEA. Its business model focuses on analysing user data through the expected launch of its Society Pass loyalty platform and circulation of its universal loyalty points, which seamlessly connects consumers and merchants across multiple product and service categories to foster organic loyalty. Since its inception, SoPa has amassed over 1.6 million registered consumers and over 5,500 registered merchants/brands on its platform. It has invested 2+ years building proprietary IT architecture with cutting edge components to effectively scale and support its consumers, merchants, and acquisitions.

Society Pass provides merchants with #HOTTAB Biz and #HOTTAB POS – a specialized POS technology solution, a comprehensive system for payment, loyal customer management, user profile analytics, and convenient financial support packages for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In addition, SoPa operates Leflair.com, Vietnam's leading lifestyle e-commerce platform, Pushkart.ph, a popular grocery delivery company in Philippines, and Handycart.vn, a leading online restaurant delivery service based in Hanoi, Vietnam. For more information, please check out: http://thesocietypass.com/.

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SESAMi Holding acquires MyBiz in all-cash deal boosting regional footprint

SINGAPORE, Jun 1, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – SESAMi Holding Pte Ltd (SESAMi) announced the successful acquisition of MyBiz Solutions Sdn Bhd.

The all-cash deal is immediately profit-accretive and provides SESAMi with an additional revenue stream as well as an opportunity to strengthen SESAMi's portfolio of businesses. The company also believes that the acquisition has the potential to significantly value-add to existing and potential customers of both SESAMi and MyBiz.

Mr Ong Teck Soon, SESAMi Holding's Chairman and CEO said, "We have been actively exploring various strategic acquisition opportunities to strengthen SESAMi's suite of products and services and enable the Company to provide a more robust business solution to our customers, thereby helping us grow revenue. The acquisition, when completed, is expected to enable us to capture new opportunities within the fast-growing online transactional commerce business in the region and we are confident of the industry's significant long-term growth prospects."

Award-winning MyBiz has emerged as an Asian leader in spend management and strategic sourcing solutions with more than 20 years of experience and expertise in their field. Their proprietary software was awarded the Procurement Consultancy Award in the World Procurement Awards 2019, as well as the "Solution Provider of the Year" in the Asia Pacific Procurement Awards in 2018. Over the years, the company has successfully delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of savings for their industry-leading clients, including companies such as Sembcorp Industries, Westpac Bank, Singapore Airlines, ST Engineering, UOB and Maybank.

SESAMi is Asia's leader and powerhouse in providing trusted solutions for transacting commerce over the Internet for sourcing, procurement, planning and order management. Their clients include organisations in both the public and private sector ranging from industries such as healthcare, aviation, tourism and telecommunications. As the foremost commerce service provider and operator of the leading electronic hub (E-Hub), SESAMi is best positioned to facilitate and provide the advantages and efficiencies of trading online to businesses. Together with MyBiz, SESAMi will bring a fully integrated supply chain solution to corporates and their suppliers in Singapore and Malaysia in a more timely, automated and cost-efficient manner.

Following the acquisition, SESAMi expects to also add to its growing pool of tech talent that will drive innovation in the organisation to better serve its customers. In a constantly-evolving world with customers demanding the highest levels of service and product offerings, we see our people as a vitally important differentiator in staying ahead of the competition, by anticipating and adapting to situational as well as long-term trends in this space. Moving forward, the company will look to integrate financing and payment solutions to make the platform even more holistic and all-encompassing.

Mr Ong added, "MyBiz has been aptly described as the Porsche of procurement – a fast, reliable and technologically advanced platform that we see as being a natural fit to SESAMi, the largest e-procurement platform in Singapore, and a vital piece of the entire jigsaw puzzle to reshape the entire industry to become the gateway for organisations, whether buyer or supplier, to seamlessly interact and transact on a platform that is built with a commitment to enhancing efficiency, accessibility, security and equal opportunity. This acquisition will further accelerate our efforts to develop new and innovative products to capture the fast-growing transactional commerce economy and we are excited to bring even more choice, value and savings to our customers going forward."

About SESAMi ( www.sesami.com )

SESAMi was founded in 1999 by a consortium of large corporates to develop e-sourcing and e-procurement services. Over the years, the company has consolidated its position in the e-procurement sector in Singapore, while expanding into other services like demand aggregation and e-financing. In 2018, SESAMi further expanded its technological capabilities by acquiring Capital Match, a leading lending platform in Singapore focusing on trade finance. Today, SESAMi processes around S$6bn of e-purchase orders and S$2bn of e- invoices annually on its platform with over $225M worth of origination via its e-financing program.

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Email: donny.ong@sesami.com

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TMT Offers Immersive Customer Experience with Latest Megastore in Pavilion Bukit Jalil

KUALA LUMPUR, May 20, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Malaysia's largest technology retailer Thunder Match Technology Sdn. Bhd. (TMT) is happy to announce the opening of the fifth TMT Megastore at Pavilion Bukit Jalil, bringing a total number of 49 branches including flagship Megastores nationwide.

MR. LCK, Assistant Sales Director, Thunder Match Technology Sdn. Bhd.; MR. ADRIAN YU, Founder & Managing Director, Thunder Match Technology Sdn. Bhd.; DATO' JOYCE YAP, Chief Executive Officer of Retail, Kuala Lumpur Pavillion Sdn. Bhd. [L-R]

The Company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, has grown from strength to strength ever since the first TMT retail store was opened in Plaza Imbi in 1997. TMT is now a network of offline retail and ecommerce platforms offering the latest technology gadgets with a one-stop solutions concept dedicated to providing consumers and shoppers an online to offline ("O2O") omni-channel consistent purchasing experience. The O2O omni-channel experience is a signature TMT experience.

The newly launched TMT Megastore located at Pavilion Bukit Jalil offers shoppers an exclusive retail experience with an extensive and wide range of quality technology products and gadgets. The Megastore also includes maintenance and repair services under one roof.

To commemorate the opening of the store, TMT is offering Grand Opening Star Buy from as low as RM1, Grand Opening deals with savings up to RM700 from 20-22 May and ongoing on-ground surprise events.

TMT also operates concept and experience stores for Acer, ASUS, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO, Samsung and Vivo. It is also an authorised Apple reseller and service provider.

Founder of TMT, Mr. Adrian Yu said, "This latest TMT Megastore opening continues our pursuit of connecting people to technology brands by supplying an extensive range of quality products to promote smarter living. At this location, we also have a special section with an extensive range of gaming product offerings catered to a growing gamer base. We are pleased to partner with Pavilion Bukit Jalil to bring another physical store experience to shoppers and providing the best retail and e-tail experience to meet all shoppers' technology needs."

"We prioritize efficiency, convenience and provide excellent shoppers experience as our employees undergo continuous training that enables us to have dedicated and knowledgeable teams in all our stores. This gives customers an immersive experience from purchasing to after-sales service as they increasingly adopt smarter living through the use of technology. Our people are there to help and to consult on what suits customer needs."

Dato' Joyce Yap, Chief Executive Officer of Retail, Kuala Lumpur Pavilion Sdn, Bhd said, "The everyday digital lifestyle of consumers are evolving rapidly and Pavilion Bukit Jalil strives to continuously fulfil shoppers' needs by becoming a tech haven through having the latest and cutting-edge range of IT/tech-based products and solutions. We are thrilled to welcome TMT, one of the largest IT and tech retailers in Malaysia to Pavilion Bukit Jalil."

"We anticipate the increase in visitor footfall further with the opening of TMT's newest Megastore as visitors can now flock to Pavilion Bukit Jalil to shop for a wide selection of technology gadgets while enjoying the many other attractions the mall offers," added Dato' Joyce Yap.

TMT has been awarded "Best Sales", "Top Excellence Dealer", "Best Partner", "Best Performing Store", and "Highest Growth Store" awards from its brand partners among others.

Thunder Match Technology Sdn. Bhd.: https://www.tmt.my/

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Retention Cloud Leader CleverTap Acquires Leanplum

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, May 19, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – CleverTap, the world's No.1 retention cloud, today announced it has signed definitive agreements to fully acquire San Francisco based Leanplum, a leading multi-channel customer engagement platform, for an undisclosed amount.

This acquisition will make CleverTap a truly global company with development centers and customer-facing and success teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, India, South East Asia and the Middle East. Combining the product stack of the two organizations, this acquisition will enhance CleverTap's capabilities and take its total customer base to over 1200 customers in more than 100 countries around the world. The deal is expected to close in Q2 of 2022.

Together CleverTap and Leanplum will work with digital brands to help increase their users' engagement, retention and lifetime value by making every user experience hyper-personalized, relevant and contextual at scale in real time. As more businesses become digital-first, brands need to serve their users with delightful moments where they are, when they want and on their preferred channel. CleverTap and Leanplum will now bring real-time hyper-personalization, A/B testing and increased scalability to its omnichannel engagement, analytics and segmentation product lines. As a result, growth and marketing teams globally will now be able to utilize the only end-to-end user engagement and retention cloud platform, enabling them to break down user communication silos and increase the overall lifetime value of each user.

"We are seeing a seismic shift in the marketing technology landscape," says Sunil Thomas, CleverTap Co-founder and Executive Chairman. "Users today demand to be treated as individuals, and this has forced brands to change how they engage with them. CleverTap and Leanplum have both purposely built for a mobile-centric omnichannel world." The acquisition, he says, combines platforms and teams to deliver the best behavior analytics, segmentation, and engagement tools that will enable digital brands to build valuable, long-term relationships with their users. "Our combined strength will be a game-changing force for user engagement, retention and monetization, creating tremendous value for our customers. I am very excited to welcome Leanplum to the CleverTap family."

"When we started Leanplum, our vision was to meet customers' real-time needs at the cutting edge of technology," says Momchil Kyurkchiev, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Leanplum. "We have succeeded in that, but as the market has matured, to fully meet the increasing demands put on brands today, we needed to bring in the best analytics, segmentation, and engagement tools, to help our customers build valuable, long-term relationships with their customers. This is why joining forces with CleverTap makes the most sense, and I am excited about the combined capabilities we will now bring to Leanplum customers worldwide."

"I am looking forward to the journey with Leanplum. This coming together with Leanplum marks a monumental moment across the marketing technology landscape," says Sidharth Malik, CleverTap Chief Executive Officer. "This bridges the gap created by multiple martech tools and customer data platforms and will meet the growing needs of user-obsessed digital brands in a much more efficient way. Our 'better together' vision is about integrating our cumulative strengths around people, process and technology to cement our position as the global leader in the user engagement and retention space. Joining forces allows us to bring advanced product and technology capabilities as brands strive to do live segmentation, anticipate user intentions and actions, automate and deploy real-time campaigns for the highest possible conversions, all from one single dashboard."

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About CleverTap

CleverTap is the modern, integrated, retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. For brands that understand and value user retention, CleverTap drives context and individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights and automation. Customers worldwide representing over 10,000 apps, including Vodafone Idea, SonyLIV, Daimler, Gojek, Carousell, and Premier League, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia India, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, and Dubai. For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Society Pass Inc (Nasdaq: SOPA) Reports 1Q 2022 Financial Results, Sees 4,582% Year on Year Revenue Growth and Cash on Hand Growth of 33% from year 2021

SINGAPORE, May 12, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Society Pass Incorporated (Nasdaq: SOPA) ("SoPa" or the "Company"), Southeast Asia's leading loyalty and ecommerce ecosystem, announced that first quarter 2022 revenues grew 4,582% year on year (from $9,506 for first quarter ended 31 March 2021 to $445,090 for first quarter ended 31 March 2022). The Company also reported cash on hand grew over 33% from $23.3 million on 31 December 2021 to $31.0 million on 31 March 2022.

With the closed acquisitions of the Pushkart and Handycart business units, SoPa has amassed over 1.6 million registered consumers and 5,500 registered merchants/brands onto its ever expanding ecosystem.

Society Pass expects to file its 1Q 2022 Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission later this month. During the first quarter 2022, the Company completed the corporate restructuring of its subsidiary Leflair's Vietnam operations into Leflair Group, an integrated lifestyle retail ecosystem to capture Southeast Asia's fast growing 100B+ USD retail market, as well as the integration of its recent food and beverage delivery acquisitions, Pushkart and Handycart, onto the SoPa ecosystem.

Commenting on Society Pass' strong business growth and future plans, Dennis Nguyen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Society Pass said, "Our robust revenue growth validates our acquisitions focused operating model. Leflair continues to be our main revenue contributor as we gear up our latest acquisitions Pushkart and Handycart to become leaders their respective markets. As a result of our corporate restructuring process, Leflair Group is now set to become Southeast Asia's next lifestyle retail super distributor nexus, evolving from a single discounted platform to a lifestyle retail ecosystem. We are poised to achieve new highs in 2022 as we build out our next generation loyalty platform as well as opportunistically acquire market leading companies in the food & beverage delivery, travel, digital advertising and telecoms verticals."

The Company plans to launch Society Pass loyalty platform in 2Q 2022, which it expects to drive customer retention for merchants. In addition, SoPa plans to make additional acquisitions in 2Q 2022 that will generate increased revenues and optimise cost efficiencies as part of the expanding SoPa ecosystem.

Society Pass leverages technology to tailor a more personalised experience for customers in the purchase journey and to transform the entire retail value chain in Southeast Asia. Through the acquisitions of market-leading companies and partnerships with visionary entrepreneurs in six distinct B2C e-commerce verticals: lifestyle, food & beverage delivery, travel, digital marketing, telecoms and food and beverage ordering, the Company meets SEA's growing demand for better and more convenient online services.

About Society Pass

As a loyalty and data marketing ecosystem, Society Pass operates multiple e-commerce platforms across its key markets in SEA. Its business model focuses on collecting user data through the expected launch of its Society Pass loyalty platform and circulation of its universal loyalty points, which seamlessly connects consumers and merchants across multiple product and service categories to foster organic loyalty. Since its inception, SoPa has amassed over 1.6 million registered consumers and over 5,500 registered merchants/brands on its platform. It has invested 2+ years building proprietary IT architecture with cutting edge components to effectively scale and support its consumers, merchants, and acquisitions.

Society Pass provides merchants with #HOTTAB Biz and #HOTTAB POS – a specialized POS technology solution, a comprehensive system for payment, loyal customer management, user profile analytics, and convenient financial support packages for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In addition, SoPa operates Leflair.com, Vietnam's leading lifestyle e-commerce platform, Pushkart.ph, a popular grocery delivery company in Philippines, and Handycart.vn, a leading online restaurant delivery service based in Hanoi, Vietnam. For more information, please check out: http://thesocietypass.com/.

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