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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Numbers for the networking platform are excellent. However, in trying to add features across the board, it seems to be losing focus and, worse, people's attention.
Editor's note: J fiddled with the idea of joining LinkedIn for three years. Despite being prodded by her teachers and the fact that most of her batchmates were already there on LinkedIn, she resisted the temptation. On the cusp of entering her fourth year of law school, J, who is 21 and a first-generation law aspirant, finally decided to give the professional networking site a shot in the hope of connecting with lawyers and landing more internships. After spending two days on the website, she felt like a complete loser. “I connected with some batchmates, went through their profiles and realized that most of them did one internship every month throughout 2020. I was just flabbergasted,” she says. “It also made me feel like a complete failure because, through the last year, all that I did was cooking and one research assistant-ship that lasted four months. I was demoralized beyond words. They were publishing articles left, right and centre, and all I could manage was two measly articles.” After simmering in self-pity for a while, she decided to speak with friends and …
Numbers for the networking platform are excellent. However, in trying to add features across the board, it seems to be losing focus and, worse, people's attention.
Editor's note: J fiddled with the idea of joining LinkedIn for three years. Despite being prodded by her teachers and the fact that most of her batchmates were already there on LinkedIn, she resisted the temptation. On the cusp of entering her fourth year of law school, J, who is 21 and a first-generation law aspirant, finally decided to give the professional networking site a shot in the hope of connecting with lawyers and landing more internships. After spending two days on the website, she felt like a complete loser. “I connected with some batchmates, went through their profiles and realized that most of them did one internship every month throughout 2020. I was just flabbergasted,” she says. “It also made me feel like a complete failure because, through the last year, all that I did was cooking and one research assistant-ship that lasted four months. I was demoralized beyond words. They were publishing articles left, right and centre, and all I could manage was two measly articles.” After simmering in self-pity for a while, she decided to speak with friends and …
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
Countries across the world are coming to the consensus that children aged under 15 must not have access to social media. India, which has over 300 million children under 15 and among the cheapest data tariffs, needs to have this conversation sooner rather than later.
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
Countries across the world are coming to the consensus that children aged under 15 must not have access to social media. India, which has over 300 million children under 15 and among the cheapest data tariffs, needs to have this conversation sooner rather than later.
