platform risk

Intuit’s purchase of Mailchimp once read like a textbook strategic fit: QuickBooks meets email marketing, cross-sell to millions of small businesses, and a steady stream of subscription revenue to justify a roughly $12 billion price tag. But the marketplace has shifted — and fast. Today, the...

India’s digital backbone is more dependent on US-controlled software, platforms and cloud services than most citizens realize — and that dependence now reads as a strategic vulnerability in the eyes of national security analysts and independent researchers. Background India’s public discourse...

Andreessen Horowitz’s latest Consumer AI ranking confirms what many in the industry have been quietly expecting: the chaotic early market is settling into a more measurable, competitive landscape — and Google, xAI, and a handful of nimble startups are positioning themselves as the platforms and...