Business: Riot Platforms is a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company. It has bitcoin mining operations in central Texas and Kentucky, and electrical switchgear engineering and fabrication ...

In the previous CoffeeBreak, we thought about the FIFA World Cup as a 'platform'.The World Cup is not just a soccer ...

For decades, the enterprise technology industry operated on a simple principle: software companies built products, and services firms helped enterprises implement, customize, and operate them. The ...

Network effects have long powered digital platform growth, creating a flywheel where each additional user makes a service more valuable and draws in more users. That dynamic shaped the rise of social ...

Every travel company with a direct channel faces the same question when a new platform gains traction quickly: join it and risk losing control, or stay off it and risk being left out.

Hyperscalers are companies focused on expanding data center usage to facilitate the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Two examples of large companies in this space are Alphabet’s (GOOGL) ...

Great platform innovations can do much more than cut costs and improve efficiency—they are capable of redefining how meaning and value are delivered to the world. As we look into the metaphorical ...