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The leadership at India’s elite startups is mostly a boys’ club.The world’s third-largest startup ecosystem has been churning out tech unico...

India has another app to manage Covid-19 pandemic.Co-Win is a mobile app and website developed by the Indian government to manage, deliver,...

As US prosecutors ramp up antitrust cases against Big Tech firms, the European Union is readying its own next wave of antitrust lawsuits. On...

This month scientists successfully used gene editing for treating sickle cell disease, a hereditary disease common among people of African a...

Come Jan. 1, Africa will be home to the largest free trade area in the world. Although the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), doe...

Walmart may be the world’s largest retailer, but it hasn’t found equal success all over the globe. For some time now, growth in its internat...

Last month, Chinese tech giants saw nearly $290 billion wiped off their market value, after China’s top market regulator released draft rule...

In December 2018, the Narendra Modi government put an end to a bruising battle with India’s central bank by appointing a former bureaucrat S...

Uddipana Goswami, a 27-year-old Hyderabad-based corporate professional, is not quite holding her breath for a Covid-19 vaccine. “I trust our...

Recent waves of employee activism have sparked a national conversation in the US about how CEOs and companies can, or should, answer the ca...

Over the last decade, American workers have been dramatically changing their relationship with their employers. When large firms across ind...

On a late September day in 2019, clients of the software company Chef found their products, which help companies manage their digital infras...

Technology has already fundamentally changed the way that millions of people work. Now, it’s changing the way they unify to make demands of...

In 2019, Alex Agius Saliba was running for a seat in the European Parliament. As he drove around his native country of Malta, knocking on do...

Claire Stapleton remembers the evening that she was putting her toddler to bed, in early 2019, when a devastating email arrived from a manag...

For $140,000, you can fly your own electric airplane. The Slovenian company Pipistrel sells the Alpha Electro, the first electric aircraft c...

It was back in 2017 when Tolu Olowofoyeku, Hamid Ibrahim, and Fikayo Adeola, friends from Nigeria and Uganda, established Kugali as pan-Afri...

Four years of chaos with president Donald Trump at the head of the Republican Party have cast the relationship between American big business...

Artificial intelligence, more than most other fields of research, is dominated by corporations. Private research labs at Google, Microsoft,...

Amazon is planning to generate its own electricity to run through the grid of South Africa’s struggling state-owned power utility Eskom.The...

On Dec. 11, the US Food and Drug Administration issued its first emergency use authorization for a Covid-19 vaccine, shortly after the UK an...

As the Paris climate agreement hits its five-year anniversary on Dec. 12, a number of countries including the UK, Colombia, Canada, and Jama...

As the US breaks grim record after grim record, regularly hitting new highs for daily cases of Covid-19, it’s difficult to conceive of the s...

Nurses and doctors in the US could start administering the Covid-19 vaccine as early as next week, with the Food and Drug Administration exp...

In the UK, university students are getting tested for coronavirus en masse. The nation-wide plan is to have all students receive a negative...