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How technology is changing rural China

December 1, 2018 Loknath Daschanging, China, How, Is, Rural, Technology'

Alex Wong | Staff | Getty Images An Alibaba employee demonstrates ‘Smile to Pay’, an automatic payment system that authorize payment via facial recognition In a nation of nearly 1.4 billion, ensuring there’s efficient health care and education is a tall order for China. Especially in some of the more remoter parts of the country. At the East Tech West conference in Nansha, Guangzhou, this week, business leaders, investors and experts contemplated how the country can effectively “equalize” these services for the whole nation. Indeed, the number of internet users…

Blue Jays: How social media affects Major League Baseball

November 25, 2018 Loknath DasAffects, Baseball, blue, How, Jays:, League, major, Media, Social

How has the introduction of social media changed the landscape in Major League Baseball and teams like the Toronto Blue Jays? The Introduction of a new Digital landscape for Baseball In the late 1990s, the introduction of The Internet created a new platform that utilized a digital landscape for the promotion of almost anything, professional sports included. Baseball was quick to jump onto the bandwagon once the potential of the medium revealed itself. What did the move to digitization initially offer Major League baseball? To be perfectly honest, a headache. …

How I Plan to Cover the World’s Most Exciting Travel Region as Skift’s New Asia Editor

November 5, 2018 Loknath DasAs, Asia, Cover, Editor, Exciting, How, I, Most, New, Plan, Region, Skift’s, The, to, travel, World's

It occurred to me that I might be in trouble. Because Asia is a huge continent to cover! It occupies a third of the world’s land area and its 4.5 billion person population is bigger than that of the other continents combined. Skift’s new Asia editor Raini Hamdi And then there’s me, located in a tiny red dot on the world map, Singapore, covering the whole of Asia for Skift. The continent I’m covering is also not a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to borrow Ang Lee’s film title. It is…

I Built a Social Media Following of 1 Million in 30 Days. Here’s How You Can, Too.

November 2, 2018 Loknath Das1, 30, a, Built, Can, Days, Following, Here's, How, I, In, Media, Million, of, Social, Too, You

Many people want to share messages with the masses to gain exposure for their brand, product or service on social media. But, with over 60 billion messages shared each day on mobile platforms alone, most content gets lost in the noise. For the last 10 years I’ve worked on improving online strategies for people like Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Disney. I’ve learned how to optimize analytics, data and paid media to help companies achieve massive growth. Related: 10 Proven Ways to Make Millions on Social Media When I set out…

Insulin can boost your immune system, here’s how

September 5, 2018 Loknath Dasboost, Can, Here's, How, immune, Insulin, System, Your

Insulin, a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets, boosts immune health, according to a new study. Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI) scientists have identified a specific insulin signalling pathway that, when activated, revs up the response of T cells in the immune system to divide rapidly and secrete cytokines, chemical messenger proteins that activate the rest of the immune system. A fast and effective immune response protects us against disease and life-threatening infections by destroying infected cells or microbes, while a wrong or inefficient one can…

How Trump Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Could Threaten Undocumented Children’s Education

September 4, 2018 Loknath DasBrett, children's, Could, Education, How, Kavanaugh, Nominee, Threaten, Trump:, Undocumented

Getty Images Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has stoked public outrage more consistently than any other member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, a group not principally known for evading indignation. But perhaps DeVos’s most alarming error to date has received insufficient public attention. This disregard is regrettable because her blunder illuminates one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most momentous opinions — and exposes a mounting threat to the decision. As last school year drew to a close, Congressman Adrian Espaillat of New York asked DeVos in a committee hearing whether public educators…