TOKYO -- SoftBank Group-backed Appier, a Taiwan-founded artificial-intelligence startup that counts Carrefour and Estee Lauder as clients, has acquired Japanese peer Emotion Intelligence, or Emin, to expand its data-marketing business across Asia.
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Appier founder and CEO Chih-Han Yu, left, who has described SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son as a "visionary leader," with Emotion Intelligence CEO Asami Ota.
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