2023-07-04
In a matter of months, Mukesh Ambani's streaming platform has gone from a marginal provider of soap operas and old Bollywood films into the most formidable competitor to Disney and Netflix. Our @FT story on JioCinema https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
Deadline
Ampere: Disney+ Hotstar remains India's streaming leader with ~50M subscribers in Q1 and a 29% share, despite losing IPL cricket rights, vs. Prime Video's 12.4M
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In a matter of months, Mukesh Ambani's streaming platform has gone from a marginal provider of soap operas and old Bollywood films into the most formidable competitor to Disney and Netflix. Our @FT story on JioCinema https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
Financial Times
A look at Reliance's JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India
2023-04-20
India says it has developed a new model for building and regulating the online world. Has it? Our deep dive into the “India Stack”, the country's ambitious digital infrastructure push, w/@JohnReedwrites @jyots43 https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
Financial Times
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs on which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more
New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn. But there are privacy and data protection concerns Tweets: @akothari , @lakshmishaks...
2022-10-12
“Officials are confident that a golden moment has arrived for India, when multinational manufacturers are hedging their reliance on China” @JohnReedwrites https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
9to5Mac
Kuo predicts that, in the next three to five years, Apple may be able to supply the US market, or ~25% of global shipments, from assembly sites outside of China
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with some new predictions on how Apple can continue to reduce its reliance on China.
“Officials are confident that a golden moment has arrived for India, when multinational manufacturers are hedging their reliance on China” @JohnReedwrites https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
Financial Times
A look at India's plan to build a wholly local supply chain, as its IT minister says the government is “actively encouraging and supporting” Apple's investments
John Reed / Financial Times :
2022-06-23
“Pakistan was being looked at as a very unstable market [but] this is the largest market that's left.” Our story on Daraz, the Pakistani ecommerce company helping Alibaba crack South Asia w/@rwmcmorrow https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A look at Alibaba's plans to expand into South Asia as its Chinese operations sputter, including through its Daraz unit in Pakistan, acquired for $194M in 2018
Financial Times : Tweets: @rencapman , @dreyerchina , and @b_parkyn Tweets: Charlie Robertson / @rencapman : South Asia smartphone penetration forecast to boom - Bangladesh from 4...
2021-02-20
From outcries about edgy content to difficulties convincing consumers to pay, streaming giants have found cashing in on India more complicated than initially imagined. “They have not even scratched the surface.” https://www.ft.com/... w/@alexebarker @AmyKazmin
Financial Times
US video streaming giants are finding it more challenging to cash in on India, amid outcries over edgy content and difficulties in convincing consumers to pay
Netflix, Amazon and Disney tackle greater scrutiny from censors as they engage in a fierce pricing war Tweets: @financialtimes , @amykazmin , @rajit_h , @ftopinion , and @b_parkyn ...