Author: Naomi Chan
For three decades, the third-party cookie was digital marketing’s invisible infrastructure. Now it’s being dismantled. Here’s how the $600 billion digital advertising industry is rebuilding — and what marketers must do now.
Only 38% of companies describe themselves as data-driven, despite billions spent on analytics. Here’s why most organisations are still getting it wrong — and what the ones succeeding are doing differently.
The VC funding climate has fundamentally changed. Before you pitch your next round — or decide not to — here’s the data-driven framework for choosing the right funding path for your startup in 2026.
In 2023, the world added more solar capacity in a year than nuclear’s entire 60-year installed base. The clean energy transition is no longer approaching — it’s reshaping industries, supply chains, and corporate strategy right now.
After the correction of 2022-2023, venture capital has recalibrated. AI, defence tech, and climate infrastructure are attracting capital at scale. Here’s exactly where smart money is placing its bets.
The old CEO rulebook — command, control, and quarterly results — is being replaced. Here’s what modern leadership actually demands in 2025 and beyond.
78% of organizations say they use AI. 95% of their pilots aren’t generating real returns. Here’s the story underneath both numbers.
Global GDP is growing at 3.3% according to the IMF, the OECD pegs it at 2.9%, and the World Bank is cautiously optimistic at 2.6%. By historical standards, that’s respectable. But strip away the headline figures and what you find is an economy running on two engines that are pulling in opposite directions: artificial intelligence and trade fragmentation. One is pouring trillions into the system. The other is ripping up the wiring.That tension is the story of 2026. And if you’re running a business, it’s the one you can’t afford to ignore.The AI Gold Rush Is Real. The Payoff Isn’t…
At 2:17 AM, somewhere in Singapore, a founder hits “Deploy.”There is no team Slack channel lighting up. No late-night engineering war room. No exhausted product manager triple-checking edge cases. Just one person, a well-trained AI stack, and a quiet confidence that what used to take 20 people can now be done by one.By morning, the product is live. By evening, it has its first paying customer.And by the end of the week, it has something far more valuable: momentum.Welcome to entrepreneurship in 2026, where the barriers to building are collapsing, and the definition of a “company” is being rewritten in…