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Amazon and Walmart couldn’t kill India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might
Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India’s neighborhood kirana stores out of business by ...
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Phony X accounts are meddling in Ghana’s election
As Ghana approaches its presidential election on December 7, researchers have uncovered a network of 171 bot accounts on X ...
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The legal showdown that could reshape online shopping in Argentina
Argentina’s banks have accused the largest publicly traded company in Latin America of monopolizing the market. The rivalry ...
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Caroline Haskins
Caroline Haskins is a freelance reporter based in New York covering tech with a focus on politics, labor, and culture. She has previously worked as a staff reporter at Business Insider, BuzzFeed News, ...
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Malaysia’s new data centers create thousands of jobs — and worries about power and water shortages
Big tech firms are setting up data centers in Malaysia, with Johor state as the hub for many. Residents, authorities are concerned about higher real estate prices, and power and water shortages.
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India’s ambitious lithium dreams have stalled
In 2023, the Indian government announced a lithium reserve of 5.9 million metric tons in Kashmir. The government has since failed to find bidders for the reserve, and extraction plans have been halted ...
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Khadija Alam
Khadija Alam is a data reporting intern at Rest of World. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, where she was a Toni Stabile Investigative Fellow. She has reported on money in politics for ...
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David Feliba
David Feliba is a business reporter with over a decade of experience covering Latin America for leading global news organizations. His work on Argentina and the region have appeared in The Washington ...
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This Indian state wants to be a tech hub. But the government keeps shutting down the internet
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 ...
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Rina Chandran promoted to Rest of World deputy editor
We are excited to share that Rina Chandran, a stellar newsroom leader and veteran journalist, is named a deputy editor at Rest of World. She will start her new role on Jan. 1, 2025. Rina has ...
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Help us raise $30,000 by December 31st. Please donate!
With nearly four billion internet users living outside the West, Rest of World’s deeply reported, award-winning tech stories are filling a critical information gap, and your sustaining gift is part of ...
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Editor, Asia
Rest of World is hiring an editor to oversee its Asia coverage, commissioning and publishing stories across formats regularly from the region, primarily focusing on South and Southeast Asia. This ...