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Digital Economy
Retail Media: Hits $71 Billion as Commerce Media Overtakes TV
US retail media spending reaches $71 billion in 2026 as global commerce media surpasses TV advertising for the first time. What this milestone means for brands.
Digital Economy
Amazon’s Global Antitrust Reckoning: Marketplace Pricing Under Fire on Three Fronts
Germany orders Amazon to stop controlling seller pricing with a EUR59M disgorgement. California and the FTC pile on. The global marketplace crackdown is here.
Skills & Careers
The Return-to-Office Wars of 2026: Microsoft Mandates, Talent Flees, Workers Surrender
Only 7% of workers would now quit over RTO, down from 51%. Amazon demands 5 days, Microsoft mandates 3. Over half of Fortune 100 require office.
Skills & Careers
The Middle Management Extinction: AI Is Flattening the Corporate Org Chart
Amazon cut 14,000 then 16,000 jobs. Meta per-engineer output rose 30%. Bayer halved management. The Great Flattening is reshaping careers worldwide.
AI & Automation
OpenAI’s $110 Billion Mega-Round: When AI Funding Becomes Sovereign-Scale Infrastructure
OpenAI closed the largest private funding round ever at $110B, valued at $730B. What the Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank mega-round means for AI competition.
Digital Economy
The Marketplace Wars: Amazon, Temu, Shein, and the Battle for Global E-Commerce
In the span of roughly two years, two Chinese-founded platforms rewrote the rules of global e-commerce. Temu launched in the United States in September 2022 and became the most downloaded app in America within weeks.
Digital Economy
Cross-Border E-Commerce: Temu, Amazon, Shein and Algeria’s Customs Problem
Temu has an Algerian storefront. You can browse it at temu.com/dz-en, filter by category, add to cart, and reach the checkout screen.
Policy & Regulation
Big Tech on Trial: The Global Antitrust Wave Reshaping the Tech Industry in 2025-2026
The dream of Silicon Valley's golden era — that technology companies could grow without limits, displace entire industries, and operate by their own rules — is colliding with a global regulatory reckoning in 2025 and 2026. Antitrust authorities in the United States, European
