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How abrupt, disruptive policy changes due to rising nationalism and pressure from local business are making India increasingly hostile to foreign tech companies (Manish Singh/VentureBeat)

Manish Singh / VentureBeat: How abrupt, disruptive policy changes due to rising nationalism and pressure from local business are making India increasingly hostile to foreign tech companies  —  In 2014, a year after Amazon launched its shopping site in India, CEO Jeff Bezos made a splash visit to the nation. How abrupt, disruptive policy changes

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How AR could spark the next big tech platform, the "Mirrorworld": a 1-to-1 map of unimaginable scope, merging our physical reality with the digital universe (Kevin Kelly/Wired)

Kevin Kelly / Wired: How AR could spark the next big tech platform, the “Mirrorworld”: a 1-to-1 map of unimaginable scope, merging our physical reality with the digital universe  —  EVERY DECEMBER, ADAM Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year. How AR could spark the next

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In the rivalry between Uber and Ola in India, Ola is relying on global expansion and acquisitions while Uber is using innovation to solve local problems (Ananya Bhattacharya/Quartz)

Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: In the rivalry between Uber and Ola in India, Ola is relying on global expansion and acquisitions while Uber is using innovation to solve local problems  —  This post has been updated.  —  Six years into their fierce rivalry in India, call-taxi majors Ola and Uber are still trying … In

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On the uncanny similarities between Xerox's failure to commercialize PC GUI and Google's Waymo, as new self-driving startups with minimum viable products emerge (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: On the uncanny similarities between Xerox’s failure to commercialize PC GUI and Google’s Waymo, as new self-driving startups with minimum viable products emerge  —  Larry Page drew the wrong lesson from Xerox bungling the PC revolution.  —  Everyone in Silicon Valley knows the story … On the uncanny similarities

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Alibaba acquires 8% stake in Nasdaq-listed Chinese anime streaming site Bilibili; Tencent paid $320M for its 12.3% stake in Bilibili in October (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Alibaba acquires 8% stake in Nasdaq-listed Chinese anime streaming site Bilibili; Tencent paid $320M for its 12.3% stake in Bilibili in October  —  Ecommerce giant Alibaba is continuing its push into the world of youth culture after it scooped up an 8 percent stake in anime streaming and game publishing company

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