News 20 January 2021 The cutthroat war to dominate China’s grocery delivery industry Community group buying is helping tech giants capture a valuable new market. But can neighborly trust be converted into brand loyalty?
News 20 January 2021 WhatsApp is at risk of losing its most loyal customers: Indian uncles and aunties A disastrous privacy policy rollout has consumers up in arms.
News 19 January 2021 China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub With GitHub in the crosshairs of Chinese censors, Beijing is backing Gitee as its official hub, an open-source institution tailored for a closed internet.
News 19 January 2021 For foreign startups, all roads lead to Delaware American VCs and foreign investors alike prefer to base their companies in the tiny state.
News 13 January 2021 Cómo desinformación sobre vacunas se propaga más por Facebook en español La empresa solamente eliminó una red que propagaba teorías de conspiración después de ser contactada por Rest of World.
News 12 January 2021 The motorbike taxis vs. the unicorns The resilience of Vietnam’s xe ôm motorbike taxis shows the challenges that Grab and Gojek face in their new frontier market.
News 9 January 2021 The gig economy comes for childhood education Startups in India want to apply Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth playbook to children’s education. But is anyone learning anything?
News 8 January 2021 Covid tourists flocking to Mexico stir online outrage — except in Mexico While American social media is roiling with images of holiday makers, the country’s online outrage is too busy hating on itself.
News 7 January 2021 How vaccine misinformation spreads in Spanish on Facebook The company removed a network of pages spreading harmful conspiracy theories only after Rest of World reached out.
News 5 January 2021 Surveillance in the name of Covid-19 Singapore successfully used technology to track and trace Covid-19 cases, but privacy advocates worry about the long-term consequence of surveillance.