2024’s must-read EV stories - Rest of World
DIY EV conversions, e-rickshaws, African e-bike giants: The world of electric vehicles is way more than just Tesla and BYD. Get plugged in on the year’s biggest EV stories.
China’s biggest AI model is challenging American dominance
Sep 23, 2024 · So far, the AI boom has been dominated by U.S. companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. In recent months, though, a new name has been popping up on benchmarking lists: Alibaba i Alibaba Alibaba, founded in 1999 by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, is one of the most prominent global e-commerce companies that operates platforms like …
Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles - Rest of World
Apr 23, 2024 · Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, speaks at the company’s facility in Phoenix in 2022. Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times/Redux. In the 1980s, companies like Intel and Texas Instruments designed and made their own chips.
Grab challenges Google Maps in Southeast Asia with hyperlocal …
Nov 13, 2024 · GrabMaps coverage in Jakarta over a year between 2019 and 2020. Grab. The data from drivers, consumers, and merchants in more than 500 cities in Southeast Asia has helped add more than 800,000 kilometers of missing roads to OpenStreetMap, the open-source mapping platform, according to Grab. Grab drivers contribute about …
How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force
Dec 10, 2024 · In Bangladesh, matchmaking is so popular on the platform that some have nicknamed it “Halal Hinge.”In India, WhatsApp has 400 million monthly active users; a 2022 study by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford showed that more than half the population trusted WhatsApp as a news source. In Nigeria, WhatsApp TV broadcasts entertainment, cooking, and sports to people directly from ...
Rest of World - Reporting Global Tech Stories
How WhatsApp ate the world > WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more. WhatsApp is the world’s most widely used messaging app, with 2 billion daily users, who send 100 billion messages every day in …
Philippines set to gain from U.S. CHIPS Act amid automation …
Oct 8, 2024 · With help from U.S. CHIPS Act, the Philippines aims higher in semiconductors — 128,000 skilled workers by 2028 — but lower-skilled jobs will see cuts.
The unexpected global tech winners of 2024 - Rest of World
Dec 6, 2024 · Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based walkie-talkie app that proved unexpectedly popular in Kenya are some of Rest of World’s most surprising winners in global tech in 2024.. Homegrown three-wheeler EV companies, India and Bangladesh
Manipur’s startup boom faces survival crisis after internet blackout ...
Nov 4, 2024 · The Manipur government shut down the internet for 212 days last year, putting the state’s startup boom on pause. In 2018, the state earmarked $18 million to be spent over five years to build incubators and accelerators, and support new businesses.
Crunchyroll is trying to turn India into a nation of anime lovers
Aug 15, 2024 · Ashwath Nair’s obsession with anime started in the early ’90s, when the anime show Robotech first aired on an Indian television channel. Over the years, he fell in love with the diverse genres, complex storylines, cinematography, and the unique art style of anime.