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 ...
Software
As AI coding assistants have improved, some have declared that software craftsmanship is becoming irrelevant. If the AI can write the code, what does it matter if humans understand the principles of g...
Policy & Regulation
The rapid expansion of digital entertainment has outpaced regulatory frameworks in most jurisdictions. Governments worldwide are grappling with how to balance consumer protection, revenue generation, ...
Technology
While Western markets maintain a pattern of specialized single-purpose apps, Southeast Asia has embraced the super app model — where ride-hailing, food delivery, payments, commerce, and financial serv...
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...
AI Tools
We evaluated AI writing tools across five task categories — technical documentation, marketing copy, long-form editing, translation, and summarization — using standardized prompts and measuring output...
Travel
Digital nomadism looks wonderful on Instagram. A laptop on a beach, video calls from a co-working space in Bali, weekends exploring ancient temples or urban markets. The reality, after the first few m...
Technology
The acute semiconductor shortages that defined 2021-2023 have largely resolved. Lead times for most commodity chips have returned to pre-pandemic norms, though specific advanced nodes remain supply-co...
Reporting draws on research published by colour trading.