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Articles from restofworld.org

GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2024, down from 200M per year in 2015-2021 (restofworld.org)
5 days ago Mobile

Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (restofworld.org)
9 days ago Mexico

How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap (restofworld.org)
12 days ago Southeast Asia

Indian mom-and-pop “kirana” stores are struggling to compete with quick commerce on discounts and delivery; ~200K kirana stores have closed in the past year (restofworld.org)
12 days ago India

Malaysia's Johor state has drawn ~50 data center projects in the last three years, creating 40,000 jobs but raising concerns about power and water shortages (restofworld.org)
19 days ago Malaysia

Support groups in the Philippines blame GCash, the country's most popular payment app with 90M+ active users, for a rise in gambling addiction in the country (restofworld.org)
2024-10-17 Philippines

Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese AAA game that has sold 20M+ copies globally, hailing it as a soft power export (restofworld.org)
2024-9-28 China

A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023 (restofworld.org)
2024-9-21 China

Q&A with Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang on the enduring importance of the US market, navigating geopolitical tensions, competing with Shein and Temu, and more (restofworld.org)
2024-9-13 Alibaba

Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40% (restofworld.org)
2024-9-10 China Startup

As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and features that rely on cloud services (restofworld.org)
2024-8-29 China

A look at the consequences of Spotify's disinvestment in podcasts in Latin America, where one survey found 90% of podcast listeners used Spotify (restofworld.org)
2024-8-11 U.S. Latin America Spotify

A profile of Bengaluru-based Pocket FM, which has 2,000+ audio shows with 10- to 15-minute episodes and is working with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio (restofworld.org)
2024-7-31

Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation (restofworld.org)
2024-6-27 China Microsoft Tencent

Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds (restofworld.org)
2024-6-12 India

How Uber-owned Careem went from Pakistan's ride-hailing leader to a distant third player after deprioritizing the country due to its unstable economy (restofworld.org)
2024-6-9 Uber

A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040 (restofworld.org)
2024-6-2 Google Amazon Microsoft Chile

How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties (restofworld.org)
2024-5-26 China Taiwan

A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses (restofworld.org)
2024-5-26 India WhatsApp

As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny (restofworld.org)
2024-5-15 India WhatsApp

Some Singaporean writers are resisting their government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and more (restofworld.org)
2024-5-9

During India's general election, some Indian politicians and parties are using deepfake videos and audios of popular, deceased politicians in their campaigns (restofworld.org)
2024-5-7 India

WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021's IT rules (restofworld.org)
2024-5-3 India WhatsApp

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)
2024-4-24 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)
2024-3-27 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

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