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Naver Smart Store added an inquiry management menu and set a one-business-day reply standard, with warnings or suspension for non-response. Plus the day's other headlines.
Mega MGC Coffee's six summer drinks passed a million units in two weeks. Printing ghost stories on kiosk receipts drove 4.9 million post views.
A 24-hour AI chatbot now answers advertiser questions without waiting for an agent, expanding to all advertisers on 29 July. But policy updates may lag its answers.
You track DAU, conversion, churn and top complaint types, and still cannot answer why one person started using less. Each team is looking at a different customer.
OpenAI's first in-house device is not a phone but a 13-key macro pad. A dial adjusts reasoning depth; LEDs report agent state. What a USD 230 limited run signals.
Gartner expects 40% of enterprise applications to embed AI agents by the end of 2026. Yet 88% of pilots fail to reach production. Four myths to clear first.
Shopee has built 13 distribution centres and 180 logistics hubs in Brazil. A USD 191 billion market is opening without a local entity — but financial operations get heavier.
Anthropic hit 34.4% enterprise AI adoption against OpenAI's 32.3% — the first reversal. This is not a share shift but a change in what the market measures.
Naver's authenticity badge verifies payment history but not whether reviewers were compensated. Across 111,109 reviews of five well-known restaurants, only 147 carried the badge.
Korea's food and drug regulator flagged 26 online weight-loss food advertisers. Some 600,000 units worth KRW 11.5 billion, with markups reaching 27.5x cost.
Naver will pause ADVoost Shopping and catalogue sales campaigns for two hours on 27, 28 and 30 July. Ads keep serving, but product data and creative edits are frozen.
Alphabet posted USD 119.8 billion in Q2 revenue, up 24% year over year, with cloud surging 82%. But capital expenditure of USD 44.9 billion pushed free cash flow negative.
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