This is the sixth of seven lessons from Ladina that we are publishing each day leading up to our World News Media Congress. Her first five covered: Lesson #1 Building products is trivial. Running them isn’t. Lesson #2 The living policy. Why AI guidelines are never finished. Lesson #3 Forget the AI mandate. Start with…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating the Trump administration’s tariffs was a positive outcome for companies, but refunds may take years to materialize. The Supreme Court decided in February that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency illegally collected $166 billion from 300,000 importers. Logically, companies should get refunds, but lawyers don’t expect a…
By Julia Barcelon During the Digital Media Asia conference in Manila, Dian Gemiano, the Chief Marketing Officer of KG Media, described the growing challenges facing publishers in what he called the “post-pageview era.” Social reach continues to expand, but advertising revenue tied to owned platforms is steadily declining. AI is also rapidly changing how brands…
PayPal suddenly looks less like a company dealing with a rough stretch on Wall Street and more like a warning sign for a digital economy that is becoming harder, slower, and less forgiving. After disappointing investors with weak growth in its core checkout business, PayPal is moving deeper into restructuring, layoffs, and AI-driven cost cutting…
The United States indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro in federal court last week, one of its most aggressive actions against the island since the end of the Cold War. The unsealed indictment charges Castro, the 94-year-old brother of deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and five others for alleged involvement in the shooting down of…
Asha Bakshani has spent her tenure at Lightspeed Commerce at the intersection of capital markets discipline and high-growth execution. Since becoming CFO in April 2022—and after previously serving as Executive Vice President of Finance—she has helped steer the Montreal-based company through a period defined by public-market scrutiny, operational tightening, and an expanding global footprint. Bakshani…
This is the fifth of seven lessons from Ladina that we are publishing each day leading up to our World News Media Congress. Her first four covered: Lesson #1 Building products is trivial. Running them isn’t. Lesson #2 The living policy. Why AI guidelines are never finished. Lesson #3 Forget the AI mandate. Start with…
The Federal Trade Commission is warning that scammers are disguising account theft attempts as ordinary party invitations, another sign that everyday online life is becoming harder to trust as fraud pushes deeper into the systems people use for banking, bills, work and daily communication. The fake messages often look harmless. Some appear to come from…
There’s an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how the Trump administration is approaching its ongoing peace talks with Iran. Over the weekend, the news around the talks followed what…
There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sign. They’ve already clocked that this isn’t a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness….