ON THE MONEY: Sistema, Collins, Augusta and more

ON THE MONEY: Sistema, Collins, Augusta and more
Victoria Young
Welcome to On the Money, BusinessDesk’s weekly column on money and the people making it.It’s a digital lifeWe’ve all got used to doing much more business through digital meetings than by face-to-face, but there was a special quality to the deal struck between Auckland-based Soul Machines and the World Health Organisation.The WHO is using one of Soul Machines’ digital assistants, dubbed ‘Florence’ (pictured above), to deliver a combination of covid-19 and anti-smoking advice anywhere in the world under a deal...

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