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Director, Data & Regulation
Sophia Rossi specializes in global data governance and digital competition policy. She monitors the regulatory hurdles facing tech giants and the evolution of international privacy standards.
sophia.rossi@digitalecononews.comAustralian enterprises are shifting from data storage to data governance, and compliance challenges triggered by AI are driving upgrades in identity and access management.
Global enterprise AI investment will double in 2025, but only 20% of companies capture 74% of AI value. Boards should require AI investments to have clear financial goals, rather than rewarding hype.
The European Commission preliminarily determined that Meta's auto-play, infinite scroll, and highly personalized recommendation features are addictive, violating the Digital Services Act. Meta may face fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue and will need to redesign the core user experience. This move is not just a regulatory action but signals a fundamental shift in the business model of digital platforms based on attention extraction.
In the first week of July 2026, events such as the Meta lawsuit, EU antitrust, Alibaba settlement, Tesla deliveries, and Rocket Lab's acquisition of Iridium intertwined, revealing the profound impact of AI commercialization, platform regulation, and the space economy on the digital ecosystem.
Eight Chinese government departments jointly issued implementation opinions on the high-quality development of the industrial internet, specifying that by 2030, the added value of core industries will exceed 2.5 trillion yuan. The policy focuses on the integration of AI and the industrial internet, promoting the digital transformation of manufacturing, which has triggered a surge of daily limit hits in the capital market.
Polish industry achieved a net profit of 94.4 billion zlotys in 2025, with the strong performance driven by the deep transformation of production processes through digital technology. This article analyzes how Poland's industrial digitalization enhances competitiveness and explores its impact on the digital economy landscape in Central Europe.
Countries around the world are successively advancing age restrictions on social media, with the UK becoming the latest to join. This trend is shaking the business models, user growth logic, and data value foundations of tech platforms, ushering the digital economy into a period of regulatory restructuring.
In June 2026, the digital payments industry saw major consolidation: Canada's Nuvei acquired U.S.-based Payoneer for $275 million, while African payment platform Flutterwave completed its Series E funding round and partnered with Ripple to advance stablecoin payments. Meanwhile, Fiserv's leadership change and Robinhood's 10% workforce reduction highlight intensifying competition. This article analyzes how these events are reshaping the global payments ecosystem, platform competition, and business models.
McKinsey research shows that the European e-commerce market will continue to grow at an annual rate of 6% until 2029, and AI is triggering five fundamental changes, from agent-based shopping to algorithmic competition, reshaping the business model and competitive landscape of digital retail.
Global retail growth has slowed, but e-commerce contributes about 80% of the increment. The focus of competition has shifted from scale expansion to control over pricing, visibility, and consumer decision-making. According to a report by Euromonitor International, the retail industry will face ecological restructuring in 2026, with AI becoming a new layer of traffic distribution.
Former Ernst & Young partner Jeff Soar believes that AI will completely transform the tax industry. This article analyzes how AI reshapes the business model, competitive landscape, and data value of tax services, and discusses its profound impact on the digital economy.
According to the latest report from Euromonitor International, global retail growth in 2025 will be only 2%, but e-commerce will contribute approximately 80% of that growth. The focus of competition has shifted from expansion to control over pricing, visibility, and consumer decision-making. AI-driven recommendation traffic has surged by 304%, and the power dynamics of the platform ecosystem are being reshaped.
Synergy Research pointed out that annualized revenue from global cloud infrastructure services surpassed $500 billion in the first quarter of 2026, and AI is reshaping the cloud market across the entire chain, from compute and platforms to SaaS. AWS, Microsoft, and Google continue to lead, but AI-driven new cloud vendors are rapidly changing the competitive landscape.
Amid the industry discussion sparked by Publicis’s acquisition of LiveRamp, ad technology is shifting from emphasizing “neutrality” to emphasizing “transparency.” In the era of AI-driven ad delivery, data integration, and identity resolution, what truly determines a platform’s value is no longer just whether it is independent, but how data flows, how costs are allocated, and whether brands can clearly see the optimization logic. Starting from business models, platform competition, and regulatory trends, this article analyzes the long-term impact of this shift on the digital economy.
Bugcrowd has added an EU data residency option for its penetration testing platform serving EU customers, reflecting how data sovereignty is evolving from a compliance issue into a key variable in enterprise procurement, platform architecture, and competition in cross-border digital services.
Monzo launches mobile services, Huawei Cloud emphasizes financial-grade AI, Mastercard bets on agentic AI, PingPong partners with Visa to expand commercial card payments, and Plaid launches income verification tools in Europe. Together, these moves point to a trend: fintech competition is shifting from single-point products to infrastructure competition centered on “payments + data + AI + scenarios.”