A look at India's homegrown digital payments system UPI, which is run by the NPCI nonprofit and used by close to 300M individuals and 50M merchants
both formal and informal—had a digital wallet option available. But what was so striking was that practically every one I saw was different than the next. https://www.nytimes.com/....
India's Meesho, which started as a social commerce platform in 2015, pivoted to direct selling in 2021, affecting many of its resellers who have lost customers
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India's Meesho, which started as a social commerce platform in 2015, pivoted to direct selling in 2021, affecting many of its resellers who have lost customers
Varsha Bansal / Entrackr : Tweets: @malpani , @iankursingh , @neeleshmisra , @sureshnakhua , @varshaabansal , @upadhyay_harsh1 , @entrackr , @varshaabansal , @arpitahindu , and @n...
Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, and announces a creator accelerator program that will initially accept 20 participants
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Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
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India's app ban may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data
- Ban shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets Tweets: @brij and @next_china Tweets: Brij Singh / @...