Millions of first-time internet consumers are getting online with ~$25 “smart feature phones”, popularized by Indian telecom Reliance Jio and powered by KaiOS
First-time internet consumers are connecting to the web on a new breed of device costing about $25 Tweets: @ericbellmanwsj Tweets: Eric Bellman / @ericbellmanwsj : It's tech with training wheels. @ne...
The rise of mobile video in India is requiring YouTube and others to innovate to better serve Indian users, who average 40+ hours/month of video from data plans
Explosion of video is transforming India's media landscape, and companies are scrambling to feed demand Tweets: @jwangark , @shadmashaikh , @abhishekn , @ericbellmanwsj , @safimichael , @lavsmohan , @...
How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptions, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities
some were calling it the ping-pong paddle—it added pop-up descriptions and recommendations in Hindi. http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... Shannon Mattern / @shannonmattern : As Amazon targets...
How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptors, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities
The retailer is targeting hundreds of millions of new online shoppers in India's countryside by adding Hindi and videos … Tweets: @bethblackshire , @wsj , @oraunak , @wsj , @ericbellmanwsj , and @saji...
Tech firms rethink products, expecting the next billion internet users to prefer voice, video, and images to text given lower literacy rates in developing areas
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