SF supervisor says Uber is retaliating against the city's temporary cap on food delivery commissions by ceasing deliveries to low income neighborhoods
as opposed to letting the free market decide. Do @DoorDash @postmates and @Grubhub still deliver to treasure island? https://twitter.com/... @thesoulcab : @dkhos @tonywest are shitty liars, they don't...
Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it
This is civic tech: Oh look, here comes UpLink … Tweets: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : So this woman was 15 when someone created a Facebook business page dedicated to... her butthole. She spends ~4 year...
Inside Foxconn's manufacturing facilities in India, where it operates two plants and has plans for two more as it looks to diversify its operations beyond China
On a steamy summer morning, dozens of buses pull up outside a cluster of low-slung, blue buildings in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Tweets: @sihamese , @vindugoel , @bloombergquint , and @...
As the 10+ day internet shutdown in Kashmir continues, pharmacists run out of drugs, people can't get cash, and online related businesses close
Pharmacists can't restock medicines; workers aren't being paid. But the government still loves to block the internet for “peace and tranquillity.” Tweets: @nihamasih , @nytimestech , @vindugoel , @pu...
Electric motorbike startups in India such as Bounce and Vogo are competing with Uber and Ola by serving people who cannot afford current ride-hailing services
Vindu Goel / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @nicolegelinas , and @vindugoel Tweets: @nytimes : As Uber prepares to go public, a low-tech approach of the company's vision of a self-driving future...
Facebook says it removed over 800 Indian and Pakistani Pages, accounts, and Groups for spreading misinformation and propaganda, ahead of India's election
and the company couldn't do anything about it. https://www.cnn.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : WhatsApp has NO WAY of removing disinformation from its platform like its parent company Facebook has...
Indian regulators call for European-style rules on big tech, focused on privacy and protecting local firms from competition; sources say new rules are coming
Vindu Goel / New York Times : Tweets: @eastdakota , @anandwrites , and @vindugoel Tweets: Matthew Prince / @eastdakota : India is currently the most important country in term of defining the future o...
Indian regulators call for European-style rules on big tech, focused on privacy and protecting local firms from competition; sources say new rules are coming
NEW DELHI — In India, American companies dominate the internet. Facebook's WhatsApp is the most popular app on phones. Tweets: @anandwrites and @vindugoel Tweets: Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites : ...
How WhatsApp is being used to spread misinformation, share fake polls, and exacerbate religious divides ahead of national elections in India
Vindu Goel / New York Times :
Paytm, Google, others see India's low rate of digital payments as an opportunity after the value of digital wallet transactions rose 64% from Dec. '16-Dec. '17
New York Times : Tweets: @stevelohr , @hitoishichakma , @vindugoel , @vindugoel , and @nytimestech Tweets: Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Why India still clings to cash. Trust matters more than technology...