South Asia Newsletter 28 June 2022 Amid layoffs, not all hope is lost for Indian job seekers yet Over 10,000 tech workers have been laid off in India in 2022, but there are pockets of sustained demand for jobs.
How To Buy 28 June 2022 How to buy fresh meat in Bengaluru Online meat delivery platforms are challenging taboos and streamlining the buying experience for Indian carnivores.
Reports 27 June 2022 Tech-stock-alypse now: founders, workers, and investors on the global startup collapse Funding is drying up, and layoffs are skyrocketing: “There was no notice. There was an email in the morning and then a town hall.”
News 22 June 2022 DALL·E mini has a mysterious obsession with women in saris The images represent a glitch in the system that even its creator can't explain.
South Asia Newsletter 14 June 2022 Sri Lanka’s brain drain problem “Every day, somebody you know is leaving. … They have taken away hope.”
Features 14 June 2022 Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown From protests to power cuts, Watchdog uses open source research to investigate Sri Lanka’s ongoing political and economic crisis.
3 Minutes With 13 June 2022 “Venture capitalists are circumspect, a little conservative.” 3 Minutes with Sanjeev Bikhchandani — co-founder, Info Edge, 🇮🇳
South Asia Newsletter 31 May 2022 India’s open e-commerce plan The Open Network for Digital Commerce project shows early signs of adoption.
News 19 May 2022 India’s answer to Twitter already offers self-verification “Already doing what Elon Musk wants to do is such a high,” co-founder of Koo, Aprameya Radhakrishna, posted on Twitter.
South Asia Newsletter 17 May 2022 The Indian brokerage that wants to disengage users Brokerages in the West, led by Robinhood, have gamified investments to increase their users. An Indian brokerage has been actively looking at ways to disengage users.