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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
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2 days ago
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
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11 days 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2024-1-16
Nigeria
Spotify
How AI shook the world in 2023
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2023-12-31
AI
YouTube is the last bastion of unbiased journalism in India
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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
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2023-12-14
Japan
Why Nigerian filmmakers are skipping Netflix to go straight to YouTube
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2023-10-25
China
Asia
Southeast Asia
Signal President Meredith Whittaker on resisting government threats to privacy
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2023-10-18
How AI reduces the world to stereotypes | Rest of Word
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2023-10-14
AI
How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
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2023-10-12
AI
ChatGPT fails in "low-resource" languages like Tamil and Bengali (Rest of World)
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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
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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
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2023-9-6
Chinese sextortion scammers have flooded X, harassing political dissidents and influential figures since the platform added paid verification checks in April
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2023-8-30
China
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