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Articles from restofworld.org

Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues (restofworld.org)
1 day ago Taiwan

A look at Disney+ Hotstar's and JioCinema's strategy to beat Netflix and Prime Video in India, including by focusing on sports content and affordable pricing (restofworld.org)
29 days ago India Netflix

Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (restofworld.org)
2024-3-24 Amazon Africa

China: The world's shopping cart From wildly popular e-commerce apps to the rise of livestream shopping, China is changing the way the world shops. (restofworld.org)
2024-3-16 China

A look at Visa's and Mastercard's efforts to stay relevant in Africa, including by funding local startups, as users switch to digital wallets and QR codes (restofworld.org)
2024-3-14 Startup Africa

Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China's Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn (restofworld.org)
2024-3-13 China

As Twitch shuts down in South Korea citing high costs due to new “sender pays” network rules, livestreamers struggle to use Korean rivals like AfreecaTV (restofworld.org)
2024-2-29 Korea

How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach (restofworld.org)
2024-2-21 China

Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K (restofworld.org)
2024-2-15 Amazon Netflix Africa South Africa

As Chinese tech manufactures flock to Vietnam to set up new factories, Bac Ninh, an industrial hub northeast of Hanoi, has become a center for Chinese culture (restofworld.org)
2024-1-24 China Vietnam

How Spotify's on-the-ground work in Nigeria, like hiring local staff, contributed to the success of Afrobeats, which grew 550% on Spotify between 2017 and 2022 (restofworld.org)
2024-1-16 Nigeria Spotify

How AI shook the world in 2023 (restofworld.org)
2023-12-31 AI

YouTube is the last bastion of unbiased journalism in India (restofworld.org)
2023-12-26 India YouTube

How the US rise of Japanese news aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, came to a halt in 2023, leading to the departure of CEO Ken Suzuki in November (restofworld.org)
2023-12-14 Japan

Why Nigerian filmmakers are skipping Netflix to go straight to YouTube (restofworld.org)
2023-12-12 YouTube Netflix Nigeria

A look at Foxconn's struggles to manufacture the iPhone 15 in India, contending with language barriers, labor disputes, regulatory hurdles, and more (restofworld.org)
2023-11-29 India iPhone

Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Douyin require popular users to reveal their real names, forcing some influencers to either cull their followers or quit (restofworld.org)
2023-11-23 China

An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era for Chinese e-commerce by expanding overseas (restofworld.org)
2023-11-15 China

Data: African startups raised only $1.3B in the first nine months of 2023, below the $3.3B and $2.9B raised over the same period in 2022 and 2021, respectively (restofworld.org)
2023-11-1 Startup Africa

Ahead of India's 2024 elections, politicians are using voice cloning tools to deliver personalized messages, as AI-generated songs featuring Modi gain traction (restofworld.org)
2023-11-1 India AI

Amazon Live and Flipkart's Vibes are trying to revive livestream commerce in India, as most startups that tried to popularize live e-commerce are struggling (restofworld.org)
2023-10-25 India Amazon Startup

Blued, China's largest gay dating app, plans to expand to Southeast Asia and the US in a bid to take on Grindr, while facing censorship and competition in China (restofworld.org)
2023-10-25 China Asia Southeast Asia

Signal President Meredith Whittaker on resisting government threats to privacy (restofworld.org)
2023-10-18

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes | Rest of Word (restofworld.org)
2023-10-14 AI

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes (restofworld.org)
2023-10-12 AI

ChatGPT fails in "low-resource" languages like Tamil and Bengali (Rest of World) (restofworld.org)
2023-9-12

A test of ChatGPT's ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers (restofworld.org)
2023-9-7

Pakistan's tech workers are leaving the country, as funding dries up, companies close, and more; data: 800K+ Pakistanis got jobs abroad in 2022, up 189% YoY (restofworld.org)
2023-9-6

Chinese sextortion scammers have flooded X, harassing political dissidents and influential figures since the platform added paid verification checks in April (restofworld.org)
2023-8-30 China

In Kenya, the most active African country on TikTok, creators make money with protest livestreams, which protesters say help them stay safe from police violence (restofworld.org)
2023-8-9 Africa

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