/
•
•
Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Editor's note: Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale ends at midnight tomorrow. The company says it sold more iPhones on the opening day, 17 October, than in all of last year’s sale. By next week, you will see policy wonks, economists and sections of the government hailing the green shoots of recovery, citing data from the sale. And later, in a dramatic turn of events, you will see the same set of people calling out the company for predatory pricing and killing the retail sector. But I digress. While you enjoy the new iPhone, or wait for your air fryer to arrive, spare a thought for the people who are working in the shadows, round the clock, to ensure that the large volumes of deliveries go through without a hitch. These are the employees most at risk from Amazon’s alleged move to track and monitor staff and limit their efforts to form unions. Two weeks ago, citing a confidential Amazon internal memo, technology news website Recode reported that the American e-commerce company was “making significant investments in technology to track and counter the …
Editor's note: Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale ends at midnight tomorrow. The company says it sold more iPhones on the opening day, 17 October, than in all of last year’s sale. By next week, you will see policy wonks, economists and sections of the government hailing the green shoots of recovery, citing data from the sale. And later, in a dramatic turn of events, you will see the same set of people calling out the company for predatory pricing and killing the retail sector. But I digress. While you enjoy the new iPhone, or wait for your air fryer to arrive, spare a thought for the people who are working in the shadows, round the clock, to ensure that the large volumes of deliveries go through without a hitch. These are the employees most at risk from Amazon’s alleged move to track and monitor staff and limit their efforts to form unions. Two weeks ago, citing a confidential Amazon internal memo, technology news website Recode reported that the American e-commerce company was “making significant investments in technology to track and counter the …
The Indian mother and baby products retailer has been slow to grow in the two largest markets of the Gulf. What gives?
Exploitation of unskilled workers is at the heart of quick-delivery service businesses in India. They should be valued for what they are and not what they pretend to be, a trait that has taken a devious form of wanting it both ways.
Thanks to millions of Indians with cheap data connections and little to do, Big Tech continues to make giant strides in the country. The narrative of an atmanirbhar Bharat in technology is now dead in the water.
The Indian mother and baby products retailer has been slow to grow in the two largest markets of the Gulf. What gives?
Exploitation of unskilled workers is at the heart of quick-delivery service businesses in India. They should be valued for what they are and not what they pretend to be, a trait that has taken a devious form of wanting it both ways.
Thanks to millions of Indians with cheap data connections and little to do, Big Tech continues to make giant strides in the country. The narrative of an atmanirbhar Bharat in technology is now dead in the water.
