UpFront
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Capitalism (Do billionaires destroy democracy?), Science (Antiscience movement is going global; Will my cat eat me if I die?), Technology (Why bitcoin won't become like money) and Book Review (Kazuo Ishiguro sees what the future is doing to us)
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Famine stalks Yemen, as war drags on and foreign aid wanes
Nearly half of Yemen's population, 13.5 million people, are struggling to get enough food, according to the United Nations and that number is expected to rise by nearly 3 million by the end of June
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How rich countries got to the front of the vaccine line
As of March 30, 86 percent of shots that have gone into arms worldwide have been administered in high and upper-middle-income countries with only 0.1% of doses having been administered in low-income countries
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Six (and more) degrees of fakery
How inaction against the rash of fake universities across the country may be incentivising the mushrooming of more such institutions
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Clearing the Suez Canal took days. Figuring out the costs may take years
Cargo companies, insurers, government authorities and a phalanx of lawyers, all with different agendas and potential assessments, will not only need to determine the total damage but also what went wrong
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Google aims to be the anti-Amazon of e-commerce. It has a long way to go
Google is trying to present itself as a cheaper and less restrictive option for independent sellers and is focused on driving traffic to sellers' sites, not selling its own version of products as Amazon does
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Vivek Wadhwa: Now the Goliaths eat David for lunch
The book's title 'From Incremental to Exponential' is a giveaway and its author, Vivek Wadhwa, a tech entrepreneur and a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University joins us on today's episode where he points out there will be more disruption in this decade than in the last 50 years. Wadhwa take us through how legacy companies cut the middleman to stay in the game, why he says AI is an excel sheet on steroids, and why Amazon's monopoly is not a good thing for the Indian market
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Covid-19: India's second wave is here. And the world's largest vaccination programme may just not be enough
As India sets out to vaccinate people above 45, Forbes India takes stock of the pace of vaccinations, candidates under regulatory approval, vaccine-hesitancy, and the demand-supply dynamics
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One vaccine is good. How about mixing two?
Mixing vaccines might do more than just help overcome supply bottlenecks and some researchers suspect that a pair of different vaccines might work better than two doses of the same one
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Why the world's container ships grew so big
The growth of the shipping industry and ship size has played a central role in creating the modern economy, helping to make China a manufacturing powerhouse and facilitating the rise of everything from e-commerce to retailers such as Ikea and Amazon
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The startup enemies of Wall Street are booming
Many investors are making bold predictions that these startups will upend big banks, established credit card providers, and in some cases, the entire financial system