Apple, which launched a redesigned iPhone with 5G connectivity last year, is not expected to make radical changes this year, with most analysts pointing to small technical updates to the phone's processor and camera system
Many of the new metaverse platforms are powered by blockchain technology, using cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), allowing a new kind of decentralised digital asset to be built, owned and monetised.
The move comes weeks after the Square-Afterpay deal and the Amazon-Affirm Holdings deal, at a time when ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) solutions are witnessing a pandemic-induced boom.
Shiprocket, a company that collects goods from online businesses and sends them to delivery companies, is finalising a new round of funding led by Temasek.
They said the collaboration will help faster and cheaper onboarding of customers and merchants by banks as well as enable fintech firms to build out new models of digital interfaces for customers launching RuPay credit card products.