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Pankaj Mishra

@pankajontech
19 posts
2023-03-02
I remember my conversations with a few back then, the mission sounded promising. There was hope and purpose. Now, there's none OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-02 View on X
Fast Company

A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Tesla's Model X development and has been at the helm of OpenAI's strategy to test its tools in public

OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that's why it's our Most Innovative Company of the Year. Tweets: @ainsleyoc , @imkarthikk , @mikehofma...

I remember my conversations with a few back then, the mission sounded promising. There was hope and purpose. Now, there's none OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-02 View on X
VICE

OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race

2021-04-05
LG bled over $4.5 billion and spent six years before quitting the smartphone business. It couldn't even find a buyer for its assets When to quit sounds far more important question to answer than when (and whether) to enter a market https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-04-05 View on X
Nikkei Asia

LG Electronics says it is terminating its smartphone business, which has lost money for years

South Korea group faced lack of in-house chip supply and rise of Chinese rivals  —  SEOUL — LG Electronics said Monday that its board decided to terminate the company's loss-making...

2020-11-26
Slack finds a buyer, finally. https://salesforce.com/ acquiring Slack at around $17 billion valuation This will be a giant step towards making Salesforce an all purpose sw, and pitch directly against Microsoft CRM meets email replacement https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-11-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed

they've kind of become the tech acquirer of choice. Big enough to buy $20b businesses, small enough to avoid regulatory scrutiny. https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus ...

2020-11-06
WhatsApp finally gets to do payments in India, get closer to being a SuperApp https://blog.whatsapp.com/...
2020-11-06 View on X
TechCrunch

India to enforce a cap so no single payments app processes more than 30% of all UPI transactions per month from January 2021, affecting Google Pay and PhonePe

Google and Walmart have a new challenge ahead of them as they race to expand the reach of their payments apps in India: They won't be permitted to grow beyond a limit.

WhatsApp finally gets to do payments in India, get closer to being a SuperApp https://blog.whatsapp.com/...
2020-11-06 View on X
TechCrunch

WhatsApp rolls out payments in India in ten regional languages on Android and iOS, after getting approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

2020-08-27
Writers and bloggers in India, you can now offer paid subscription on Substack in India https://on.substack.com/...
2020-08-27 View on X
Substack Blog

Substack to support paid subscriptions for writers based in India; the feature is in beta and Substack will waive its 10% fee during the beta period

Substack Blog : Tweets: @akm1410 , @smc90 , @anmolm_ , @reddymadhavan , @iruhdam24 , @pankajontech , @hamishmckenzie , and @patio11 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ashish K. Mishra / ...

2020-07-04
Indian founders truly looking to build products that rival the best, don't build “rip offs”. and if you must copy a leader, perhaps differentiate on design or anything that defines you better https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-04 View on X
TechCrunch

India's Reliance Jio launches JioMeet, a Zoom-like video-conference service, offering unlimited free calls in 720p with up to 100 participants and no time limit

and it is absolutely free Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Reliance Jio releases Zoom competitor Tweets: @shrinivassg : JioMeet and Zoom - a thread. Screen 1 - Landing Page. https://t...

2020-07-03
Indian founders truly looking to build products that rival the best, don't build “rip offs”. and if you must copy a leader, perhaps differentiate on design or anything that defines you better https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-03 View on X
TechCrunch

India's Reliance Jio launches JioMeet, a Zoom-like video-conference service, offering unlimited free calls in 720p with up to 100 participants and no time limit

India's Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run, is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing.

2020-06-10
“I didn't help them access anything, I just helped them with downloading the mails and they provided me all the details,” said Sumit Gupta BellTroX's Gupta was charged in a 2015 hacking case in which two U.S. private investigators admitted to paying him to hack the accounts
2020-06-10 View on X
Reuters

An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed

New report from @citizenlab uncovering Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalis...

Indian cyber firm, BellTroX InfoTech Services, spied on politicians in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the US including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-06-10 View on X
Reuters

An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed

New report from @citizenlab uncovering Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalis...

2020-06-09
Indian cyber firm, BellTroX InfoTech Services, spied on politicians in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the US including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-06-09 View on X
Reuters

An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy …

“I didn't help them access anything, I just helped them with downloading the mails and they provided me all the details,” said Sumit Gupta BellTroX's Gupta was charged in a 2015 hacking case in which two U.S. private investigators admitted to paying him to hack the accounts
2020-06-09 View on X
Reuters

An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy …

2020-04-23
E-commerce in India making desperate attempts to be seen on the side of mainstream political and economic agenda of “helping neighborhood stores.” This especially amid all the regulatory flip flops https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Amazon launches Local Shops on Amazon in India, a program to let customers find and buy products from 5,000 participating local shops across 100 cities

Manish Singh / TechCrunch :

Over 20 former Amazon employees confirm that the company Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Rival Private Label Products Nothing new. It's been an open secret for a while. https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-04-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Amazon employees often consulted sales info on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise, contrary to assertions to Congress

Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise Tweets: @jason_kint , @trippmickle ...

2020-04-18
A Google debit card? Wonder what it means for markets like India where it's Google Pay against Paytm and others. Also, there are lessons for incumbents partnering with Google, Apple—it's all a Playbook. Partner with banks for data and insights, launch disruptive fintech products https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Sources: Google is working on a “Google card”, a debit card co-branded with banks including Citi, to set itself apart from rival payment services

Venmo Adds Direct Deposits—Bank & Fintech Apps See Downtime Tyler Lee / Phandroid : It looks like Google could be making their own debit card Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : Leaks Emerg...

2020-02-25
Amid all the backlash and startup mis-adventures, SoftBank's big bet on ARM underscores why it's still among the best in tech PE kind of long shots https://9to5mac.com/...
2020-02-25 View on X
9to5Mac

Kuo: Apple will release its first ARM-based Mac in the next 12 to 18 months, using an Apple designed chip instead of an Intel processor

these kinds of apps take time to port, often with lengthy external testing. Can't just ship Chris Maddern / @chrismaddern : Apple may not always “love you back” with things like lo...

2020-01-25
RIP. have referenced the “the innovator's dilemma” so many times in my career while trying to make sense of how companies and leaders handle disruption. gained immensely. https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-25 View on X
Deseret News

Clayton Christensen, the author of the theory of disruptive innovation, dies at 67

Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Netflix's Reed Hastings and Intel's Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose the...

2019-10-16
Some deep enterprise lessons from Amazon ditching Oracle: Migration Complete - Amazon's Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database https://aws.amazon.com/... via @awscloud
2019-10-16 View on X
ZDNet

Amazon says its consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes in ~7,500 Oracle DBs to multiple AWS database services

AWS said that Amazon's consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes of data …