Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry: about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay
https://restofworld.org/... Gayathri Vaidyanathan / @gayathriv : India's informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit, but it comes at a steep human and environ...
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
The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA Mastodon: @sohkamyung@mstdn.io . X: @pitdesi and @anupkaphle ....
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
and even a Twitter alternative. But four years after launch, the Indian company is doing layoffs and has been unable to raise more funds to keep things afloat. By @VarshaaBansal ht...
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
An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India's ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny. — • MANDI, INDIA
Some Singaporean writers resist the government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and other issues
https://restofworld.org/... Nuurrianti Jalli, Ph.D / @nuurrianti : “So the Singapore government's approach stands out as unusually considerate of writers' rights. But writers under...
Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China's Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : X: @anupkaphle and @caiweic X: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : China's property market has plummeted since the pandemic. So why are sales booming in one ...
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
Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World : X: @anupkaphle See also Mediagazer X: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon Read @tarykuh's rep...
An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era of Chinese e-commerce targeting foreign customers
Through 6 different stories explore how Chinese E-commerce giants like Temu … Laís Martins : China has long been “the world's factory,” and the country has some of the world's bigg...
An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era of Chinese e-commerce targeting foreign customers
Through 6 different stories explore how Chinese E-commerce giants like Temu … Laís Martins : China has long been “the world's factory,” and the country has some of the world's bigg...
An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era of Chinese e-commerce targeting foreign customers
Through 6 different stories explore how Chinese E-commerce giants like Temu … Laís Martins : China has long been “the world's factory,” and the country has some of the world's bigg...
An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era of Chinese e-commerce targeting foreign customers
Through 6 different stories explore how Chinese E-commerce giants like Temu … Laís Martins : China has long been “the world's factory,” and the country has some of the world's bigg...
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
Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding … X: @restofworld , @vickiturk , @restofworld ...
Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads of ByteDance's social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app was in the US App Store's top 10 in March
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
Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people.
How ShareIt became the go-to file transfer app in countries where mobile data is prohibitively expensive; the company claims the app has 2.4B downloads globally
Rest of World : Tweets: @anupkaphle Tweets: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : Faster than Bluetooth, 2.4 billion downloads @NilChristopher & @violazhouyi on how ShareIt became the world...
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
helping them fight back against the platform's unfair refund policies through legal action Great reporting by @violazhouyi: https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Merchants are...
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
Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices. — • LAGOS, NIGERIA
How sound boxes, or tiny, cheap speakers that read out payment confirmations, have become a lucrative revenue stream for Paytm and other fintechs in India
Adnan Bhat / Rest of World : LinkedIn: Shaji Sethu . Tweets: @adnanmbhat , @jasuja , @sammcallister , @anupkaphle , @hkanji , and @moo9000 LinkedIn: Shaji Sethu : How tiny, cheap ...
A look at Belarus' once-vibrant tech startup scene, decimated after ruthless repression by Alexander Lukashenko's regime and Russia's invasion of Ukraine
and the country's techies are fleeing in droves. Absolutely fantastic reporting here from @clementgirardot https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : ...
A profile of Flipkart and CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, as losses mount, competition from Amazon and others intensifies, and Modi's government tightens regulations
Mihir Dalal / Rest of World :