Peter Mutei, a ride-hailing driver in Nairobi, gets his gigs through Uber and Little, a Kenyan ride-hailing platform. Uber gives him more business overall, but he still prefers Little, as...
A picture taken on February 4, 2016 shows Kenyan taxi parked in a street of Nairobi, waiting for clients, on February 4, 2016.
In Kenya, Uber has made a big splash on the market in 2015, to the chagrin of taxi drivers accused of retaliating in recent days by multiplying acts of vandalism and assaults against their competitors.
Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based...
In 2024, Rest of World covered some of the biggest shifts in the tech industry that have changed lives around the world: the rise of AI, Chinese companies expanding overseas,...
In September, Ammar Hmid, the founder and CEO of Presto, celebrated a new milestone for his delivery company in Libya: The startup had surpassed 23,000 orders in a single day....