Rest of World shadowed workers in São Paulo, Lagos, Dhaka, and Jakarta to get an intimate look at how they spend their breaks between orders. | Continue reading
Paul Azunre welcomes Big Tech making AI tools in African languages: “It is good to have some competition.” | Continue reading
Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks. | Continue reading
In January, the Colombian delivery giant implemented a $2.40 weekly fee for delivery workers in Brazil to use the app. | Continue reading
Gig work platforms prohibit the rental of accounts but the practice has become a popular — but risky — way to sidestep bans. | Continue reading
The Chinese market isn’t quite as untapped as U.S. companies thought. | Continue reading
From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent. | Continue reading
PiggyVest co-founder Odunayo Eweniyi says fintech products aren’t necessarily replicable in other African countries. | Continue reading
Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers. | Continue reading
After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights on India. | Continue reading
Eleven years after her Pyongyang trip, Rest of World’s founder revisits how she interpreted the country, its people, and their culture. | Continue reading
Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate. | Continue reading
A tale of two tech industries. | Continue reading
Sri Lanka’s economy had been in free fall, so PickMe set out to help local communities and provide “dignified” work. It paid off. | Continue reading
Bipin Preet Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Indian fintech major MobiKwik. | Continue reading
Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local authorities in Colombia to curb attacks against foreigners. | Continue reading
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay. | Continue reading
It’s hard to keep a stereotyping machine out of trouble. | Continue reading
The streaming giant attributed its departure to high network fees. | Continue reading
RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students learn faster and stay in school. | Continue reading
Convinced a livestream shopping boom in the West is inevitable, entrepreneurs share Chinese playbooks with aspiring U.S. influencers. | Continue reading
Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe. | Continue reading
Pelonomi Moiloa explains why making AI widely available requires building language models that need less data and other resources. | Continue reading
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts. | Continue reading
Influencers from Africa are moving to the largest Latin American country, where the creator economy is booming. | Continue reading
A new push to carve data collection out of the humanitarian tech stack. | Continue reading
The Indonesian super-app sanctions worker peer-support groups, which help riders solve problems but also discourage dissent. | Continue reading
Rafiq Malik is the chief operating officer of Pakistan’s leading bike-taxi platform Bykea. | Continue reading
Chinese livestream agencies promise influencers fame and money, but end up trapping them in multi-year contracts. | Continue reading
Why employees of Brazil’s largest last-mile delivery company haven’t visited the new help hub, despite assault and harassment by customers being a frequent danger. | Continue reading
Content moderator roles are stigmatized within the tech industry, leaving qualified Pakistani workers “stuck” with no way out. | Continue reading
Publications like The Insider are caught between state censorship and hostile platform dynamics. | Continue reading
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest soccer leagues in the world. | Continue reading
Douglas Kendyson, a former engineer at Flutterwave and Paystack, has built a profitable bootstrapped African startup. | Continue reading
As elections approach, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: India’s prime minister is also the patriarch of the virtual universe. | Continue reading
Tech companies iFlytek, Baidu, and BKK are cashing in on parents who fear their child will fall behind their peers. | Continue reading
As the world’s biggest democracy goes to polls in a few months, election campaign managers have a new mandate: Grow YouTube numbers. | Continue reading
Chinese e-commerce websites have proven popular in the country and are fueling a new line of work. | Continue reading
A gray market grows for Chinese EVs in Russia, the Middle East, and beyond. | Continue reading
Zach Oschin is the founder of Elenas, an app used by women to digitize their catalog sales. | Continue reading
New data shows a rising tide of coders in Bangladesh and Nigeria. | Continue reading
Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs. | Continue reading
Benin-based Spiro exchanges old bikes for electric models across four African countries, but the experience has been a mix of pain and success. | Continue reading
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies. | Continue reading
More than a dozen delivery drivers questioned the new mediator’s alleged impartiality, integrity, and efficacy at defending their labor rights. | Continue reading
Pakistan wants 30% of all new vehicles sold to be electric by 2030. But there is a glaring lack of expertise in the country. | Continue reading
Big tech is lobbying around another international trade deal. | Continue reading
Aloysius Liang is the founder and CEO of Asa Ren, Indonesia’s first AI-powered clinicogenomics enterprise. | Continue reading