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Who is Byju Raveendran, founder of Indian edtech app Byju’s?

1 day ago | restofworld.org | Hanson O'Haver

This article is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature: The math tutor and the missing $533 millionNamed for its founder, Byju Raveendran, the learning app Byju’s (sometimes stylized as BYJU’s) was once one of the best known brands in India. The company was a pioneer in the field of educational technology, in a country with a massive appetite for education solutions.
Middle East tech giants are building super-apps to dominate digital life

2 days ago | restofworld.org | Divsha Bhat |Munira Mutaher

The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East. Unlike Western markets, where Google, Apple, and Meta maintain separate app ecosystems with strict integration limits, in countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, tech giants are following in the footsteps of China’s WeChat. Dubai-based Careem, which started as a ride-hailing company, has evolved into a comprehensive app handling transportation, food delivery, grocery shopping, payments, and home cleaning.
China is gaining ground in the global race to develop AI agents

5 days ago | restofworld.org | Kinling Lo |Joanna Chiu

Chinese companies are gaining ground in the global race to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence — not just chatbots, but autonomous agents designed to handle complex tasks with minimal human input. In recent months, Chinese tech giants and startups have launched their own agents. Startups Butterfly Effect and Zhipu claim their tools outperform OpenAI’s Deep Research in some metrics.
In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Gabriel Daros |Rina Chandran

Last month, Brazil announced it is rolling out a data ownership pilot that will allow its citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint — the first such nationwide initiative in the world. The project is administered by Dataprev, a state-owned company that provides technological solutions for the government’s social programs. Dataprev is partnering with DrumWave, a California-based data valuation and monetization firm.
UAE’s Golden Visa attracts Western tech workers to AI jobs

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Amar Diwakar |Jane Seidel

Ameca, a humanoid robot, smiled and blinked at the crowd at Dubai AI Week 2025, a celebration of all things artificial intelligence. Landmark announcements marked the event, including a $545 million hyperscale data center to supply Microsoft and Dubai’s first PhD program in AI. AI engineer Nair, 29, felt inspired. Since moving to the United Arab Emirates last October from Kerala, India, she had applied to hundreds of entry-level jobs and faced rejections, scams and exploitative offers.
Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu |Gayathri Vaidyanathan

(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. The second story publishes next week.)A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat for lunch at their shelter in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and thanked God for the food and asked for protection from bad brokers.
Byju Raveendran plans a comeback after the $533M fraud case at Byju’s

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Yudhijit Bhattacharjee |Jane Seidel

One morning in January, Byju Raveendran sat in the back seat of his shiny black Cadillac as it sped through Dubai. Just three years prior, the schoolteachers’ son had appeared on the Forbes list of richest Indians as founder and CEO of Byju’s, then one of the world’s most valuable education technology companies. He was dressed casually in a T-shirt and jeans, while his driver, Hashim, was more formally attired in a collared shirt.
The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Karen Hao |Rina Chandran

When Sonia Ramos was a child, she witnessed an accident that would shape the rest of her life. She was born into a mining family in Chile. Her father worked for an American copper company; she grew up among the children of the other workers. In 1957, a part of the Chuquicamata mine collapsed, killing several people and injuring dozens more.
India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

2 weeks ago | restofworld.org | Kunal Purohit |Ananya Bhattacharya |Munira Mutaher

Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The SheiniSheinFounded in China in 2008 and headquartered in Singapore, Shein is a fast fashion brand that grew rapidly through exposure on social media.READ MORE India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction in a market where Amazon and Walmart have been fighting neck-to-neck for nearly a decade.
India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

2 weeks ago | restofworld.org | Kunal Purohit |Ananya Bhattacharya |Munira Mutaher

Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The SheiniSheinFounded in China in 2008 and headquartered in Singapore, Shein is a fast fashion brand that grew rapidly through exposure on social media.READ MORE India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction in a market where Amazon and Walmart have been fighting neck-to-neck for nearly a decade.