Digital India - a Gordian Knot
To back-up India's neutral payment platform, for-profit complementary'rails' might be called upon to share regulatory tasks... How to rein in the digital titans on the largest global market is on everyone's mind...
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Prosus - Digital Giant of the Consumer Internet
With a strong presence around the world , from social networks to fintech and food delivery, Naspers' subsidiary Prosus is one of the least talked about majors of the digital age, sharing audacity and vision with Tencent, its Chinese partner
The Digitalization of India
Far reaching and ambitious in the breadth of its digital sweep across India, the plan portends to be inclusive, leaving no Indian behind, fair in treating all businesses on an equal footing, competitive and compelling for domestic challengers
India - Coming in from the cold
If demography is any guide, India will dominate the Asian theater within a few years, but to act responsibly in the geopolitical power play, its economic performance must be up to the challenge and digital revolutions heighten expectations
Digital India - Making a virtue of necessity
Challenged by China power politics, India cannot afford to falter in the upmarch. If market forces play out, if digitalization and interconnectivity on the world wide web opens India's economy to competition, the country's potential will grow apace.
Amazon - Playing dumb in Delhi
Seeking to expand on the strength of sales for its own account (and not only as platform for third parties), Amazon proves reluctant to adapt its global business model to the social and economic reality of developing countries such as India
India - Turbocharging digital adoption rates
Across India's heartland digital adoption rates lift continent-sized regions out of their century-old isolation with life-changing access to communications, entertainment and commercial transactions. Who wiill gain control over data and logistics ?
Amazon's Indian Winter
Amazon India's costly consumer-driven venture is floundering on the rocks of the country's exceptionalism, its democratic aspirations swayed by the pressure of its immense population and the weight of its troubled history
Diverging strategies of generic pharmaceutical companies
Economies of scale in the production of generics through acquisitions may have been tactical responses in the industry, but TEVA's travails throw unforgiving light on on diverging worldwide strategies