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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: It is funny how quickly things change in the world of tech. I mean look at Basecamp. Last week the company said that it will not be discussing politics at work. Few would have imagined the scale of the shit storm this would kick up. Since then, several of Basecamp’s top staffers have quit the company and many others are in the process of leaving. We wrote about this in the last issue saying that human beings aren’t sheep, and it would be unwise to treat them as such. Casey Newton at Platformer has an excellent story on how the issue blew up in a cacophony of white privilege and racial discrimation. But Basecamp isn’t the subject of today’s Things Change. It is another tech company that’s changing really fast. Twitter. Late last year, most analysts interested in Twitter were speculating if the company was seriously looking at subscriptions. First, and most importantly, I would not expect any change in the core Twitter experience. Subscriptions as a rule are not a good match for a social network or any site …
The online storytelling company is betting that content will be the most sought-after commodity as scores of platforms jump on the microdrama bandwagon. But success will hinge on whether it has a good enough story to draw the audience.
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.
American online dating companies have quietly put their India operations on the back burner, with cuts in team sizes and growth spends. What gives?
