Alipay cooperates with Thai bank

China’s Alipay and Thailand’s Kasikorn Bank said over the weekend at Bangkok tourist hot spot Jatujak Market that they will enhance their cooperation in promoting QR code payment in Thailand. The Thai bank has already developed a mobile app which supports QR code payment for the Thai market. Chinese tourists can use the Alipay app to scan the QR code generated by the Kasikorn app to make purchases in Thailand. “Chinese people account for the majority of my customers and we just started to use the Kasikorn app a few days ago and hope it will make shopping more convenient for Chinese customers,” said a woman selling clothes at Jatujak Market. intelligence research lab in Montreal, the company’s first intelligence lab in Canada, and only its second outside the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended Facebook’s ceremony announcing the lab in Montreal. “Facebook’s new lab in Montreal will underline Canada’s status as a global AI powerhouse and a leader in the economy of the future, and encourage other leading tech companies to set up shop here and create good, middle-class jobs for Canadians,” said Trudeau. By next year, the lab is expected to employ a team of 20 researchers headed by McGill University’s Joelle Pineau, a leading AI researcher. ing to a Bloomberg report. The possible new investment might not only enhance the two US companies’ cooperation in self-driving technology, but also give a boost to the No 2 ride provider in its battles with Uber. It is reported that the deal might be as large as $1 billion.