Studies in digital economy and platform research
Software
The video conferencing market has matured substantially since the pandemic-driven explosion. Quality basics — video resolution, audio clarity, screen sharing — are broadly solved. Differentiation has ...
Opinion
We talk about platform accountability a lot. Congressional hearings, op-eds, regulatory proposals — the discourse is voluminous. Yet what we actually do about it is limited. I want to argue that the g...
Commerce
While consumer marketplaces get most of the attention, B2B marketplaces are quietly rebuilding how businesses buy and sell. The scale of B2B commerce is roughly ten times larger than consumer commerce...
Cloud
Cloud spending across Asia-Pacific exceeded $200 billion in 2026, with India and China leading growth rates while Japan and Australia maintained the largest absolute spend....
Travel
Tech coverage tends to focus on Silicon Valley and a handful of other major hubs. Spending time in smaller tech ecosystems — Lisbon, Taipei, Medellín, Bangalore, Tbilisi — reveals a richer picture of ...
Personal Finance
We tested six leading budgeting apps over three months of real usage, tracking actual income, expenses, savings goals, and investment accounts. The goal was to assess not just features but whether the...
Business
Over the past decade, the way consumers pay for digital services has undergone a fundamental transformation. Subscription models have moved from being a niche offering for software and media to becomi...
Culture
For most of the past decade, the dominant narrative about reading was decline. Attention spans shrinking, articles shortening, video replacing text. The data mostly supported this narrative. But in th...
Reporting draws on research published by vortex online game.