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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
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2023-8-9
Africa
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success
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2023-8-9
India
Some artists say AI tools have made them anxious about the YouTube thumbnail microeconomy's future; creators like MrBeast pay up to $10K for a video thumbnail
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2023-8-5
AI
YouTube
Interviews with people at Worldcoin booths in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong find many scanned their eyes to receive the sign-up bonuses, an “easy $50”
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2023-8-3
Hong Kong
Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures
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2023-7-27
India
Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads for ByteDance's social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app hit the US App Store's top 10 in March
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2023-7-23
A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI
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2023-7-12
AI
Freelance
Paid reviewers endorse fake products for cheap in Brazil - Rest of World
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2023-7-10
Brazil
Indian politician blames AI for alleged leaked audio
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2023-7-9
India
AI
How some farmers in Senegal, who struggle to read or write, use WhatsApp voice notes to collaborate with NGOs and researchers and learn new farming practices
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2023-7-5
WhatsApp
A Thirsty New Tesla Factory Comes To A Parched Corner Of Mexico
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2023-6-27
Mexico
Tesla
In the first five months of 2023, ~45,000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manufacturing, after Samsung and others substantially slowed production
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2023-6-27
Samsung
Manufacturing
Vietnam
How Chinese-language subreddits like r/China_irl became a refuge for banned Chinese internet groups, with users jumping the Great Firewall with VPNs
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2023-6-22
China
Indigenous communities in Borneo are using mapping tech like GPS and GIS to claim their rights to ancestral land and stop the expansion of oil palm plantations
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2023-6-22
GPS
Hotmart teaches influencers how to get rich without going viral - Rest of World
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2023-6-21
Desperate for dollars, Argentina just gave digital nomads another advantage over locals: foreign bank card holders now get better exchange rates than Argentines.
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2023-6-16
Argentina
Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax its labor laws. Unions are fighting back
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2023-6-2
India
Apple
Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government's plan, permitted by the Supreme Court, to track counterfeit phones is “excessive” and threatens privacy
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2023-5-28
An influx of digital nomads, mostly from the US, in Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities is boosting local economies, as locals complain of being priced out
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2023-5-24
Mexico
Douyin trolls are adopting American racism to taunt Black users
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2023-5-24
U.S.
Racism
How ShareIt became a go-to file transfer app in countries where data is prohibitively expensive; the company claims the app has 2.4B downloads globally
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2023-5-23
Japan's tech industry is stirring to life | Rest of World
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2023-5-21
Japan
A look at Nigeria's government-backed digital currency, eNaira, which has failed to convert crypto users and has been hindered by limited internet access
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2023-5-18
Nigeria
Current and former employees say Foxconn has hired ~10K contract workers in Chennai, India, since November 2022, paying between ~$190 and ~$225 per month
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2023-5-13
India
“Religious” chatbots, based on the Bhagavad Gita, emerge in India, with millions using them, some answering ~50K questions per day and others condoning violence
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2023-5-10
India
chatbot
African B2B e-commerce startups are scaling back operations and laying off staff; 28 of them raised $470M+ since 2008, of which 90% came between 2021 and 2022
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2023-5-9
Startup
Africa
A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo's refund-without-return policy
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2023-4-28
China
Twitter has received 971 government orders globally since Musk's takeover and fully complied with 808; before Musk, Twitter's full compliance rate was ~50%
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2023-4-28
Twitter
TikTok Shop is thriving in Indonesia, TikTok's second-biggest market with an estimated 110M users; Data.ai: the Shop seller app has ~5.5M Indonesian downloads
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2023-4-26
AI
Indonesia
A look at the waning crypto hype in Africa, as consumer trust fades, startups shut down, and Web3 workers reconsider their careers after FTX's fallout
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2023-4-26
Startup
Africa
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