For years, recurring revenue was the foundation of the private equity investment case for software companies. Subscription contracts, predictable cash flows and high customer retention rates helped justify rich valuations and substantial leverage. That formula is now under pressure. The sharp slowdown in software buyouts during 2026 is more than a temporary pause in dealmaking….
I’ve said one and meant another, and I’ve used one when I needed another. Please bear with me as I note the high-level similarities and differences between scroll-driven animations, scroll-triggered animations, container query scroll states, and view transitions for my future self. A scroll-driven animation is an animation that responds to, yeah, scrolling. Specifically, there’s…
Every spring, the same thing happens. Retirees who spent the winter in Naples, Sarasota, or Fort Myers start packing up, and somewhere on the to-do list sits a question that catches a lot of people off guard: what to do with the second car. Driving 1,200 miles back isn’t appealing when you’ve already booked the…
From the outset, India Today was clear about what Audipulse was – and was not. “Audipulse was not meant to overcome any bottlenecks, “said Bal Krishna, who leads the Fact Check team at India Today. “It was meant to assist the editor on the basis of real data, rather than assumptions.” Analytics dashboards tell editors…
At its outset, the war known as Operation Epic Fury in the United States and Operation Roaring Lion in Israel marked a historic first: the first time the two countries’ militaries went to war fighting side by side. By all accounts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the key voices — if not the…
A little creativity can go a long way when you’re trying to engage consumers in what you offer. With so many websites and platforms competing for consumers’ attention, however, you’ll need to be quick to capture someone’s attention. And you’ll need compelling visuals to do it. Today’s competitive digital landscape demands a better approach to…
By Orr Hirschauge & Adi Barill,co-founders of Alchemiq With physical goods, the supply chain is visible: ships, bills of lading, and trucks. News has a supply chain too, less obvious, often faster, but no less structured. Sometimes, a story can take longer to go around the world than it takes a plush toy ordered online….
Private equity due diligence has grown considerably more sophisticated over the past two decades, yet the same categories of oversight appear with striking regularity across failed deals. Financial modeling has become more granular, legal review more exhaustive, and management interviews more structured. Despite these improvements, a consistent gap persists between what the due diligence process…
Humanity may be scrolling its way out of existence. Across the globe, fertility rates are plummeting. In 2023, the average number of births per woman worldwide fell beneath 2.1 — the minimum level necessary for averting population decline (also known as the “replacement rate”). And this collapse is not concentrated in just a handful of…
Israel launched fresh strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, only days after a ceasefire agreement was announced in Washington, casting doubt on the durability of the truce and raising fears of a broader regional confrontation. The attacks come at a sensitive moment for diplomatic efforts aimed at reducing tensions and restoring stability across key…