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Articles from restofworld.org

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

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 (restofworld.org)
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 (restofworld.org)
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” (restofworld.org)
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 (restofworld.org)
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 (restofworld.org)
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 (restofworld.org)
2023-7-12 AI Freelance

Paid reviewers endorse fake products for cheap in Brazil - Rest of World (restofworld.org)
2023-7-10 Brazil

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