A week before the festival of Holi, Richa Kukreja is decked up in a white lehenga, hair tied up fashionably …
Shadma Shaikh
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Inside Gaana’s plans to fend off Spotify and others
Stakes are too high for the 8-year old Gaana to now start losing marketshare to rival music streaming companies in India. Here’s how it plans to fend off competition.
Kwai, VMate step back as TikTok dwarfs all in Indian short video market
Chinese content giants that had flocked to India and were beginning to dominate the crowding market here are finding that …
TikTok in India: Where uncute content is ready to ring the till
Akshay Kakkar is a mini celebrity. With over 45,000 fans on TikTok he has become a popular household name in …
Dailyhunt, regional digital rivals catch the news bug ahead of 2019 elections
Bhagwan Das Yadav, a security guard in a housing society in Pune, has his smartphone to thank for helping him …
Lessons from the fortunes of OYO, Capillary, and InMobi in China
Last September when OYO Hotels raised $800 million from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and others, the headlines were about the $5 …
From Sharing to Streaming — SHAREit’s run to stay at the top in India
It was during one of his early visits to small-town India in 2016 that SHAREit India managing director Jason Wong …
The ease of WhatsApp feeds the craze for child porn in India
Last week union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced the government’s intent to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences …
The Chinese takeover of Indian app ecosystem
“TikTok is a Youtube killer.” “Helo is giving ShareChat a tough time and has a higher chance of winning India …
How Chinese companies are planning a global fintech coup
Chinese tech giants along with dozens of hyper-funded upstarts have designs on the world. They are quietly taking over the global fintech market at a scale that’s unheard of before.
Behind the glamour of YouTube are wrung out stars
“It’s a part of my job to hear people tell me to go kill myself,” says Lilly Singh aka Superwoman, …
Chinese app Kwai turns a blind eye to videos of underage girls in India
A young girl, not more than 12 years old is dressed in a bright pink lehenga and a royal blue …
Helo: A Chinese app is saying Ni Hao and a lot more in India
Zhang Yiming is a known name in China. Originally from Fujian, a south-eastern province in China known for its people …
How WeChat faded into the silence in India
Circa 2010, China: The aftermath of Urumqi riots in 2009 resulted in a ban and blockage of 1.3 million websites …
An open source resistance takes shape as tech giants race to map the world
Chetan Gowda, 27, was speaking to a room full of students in IIIT Hyderabad for a workshop on OpenStreetMap for …