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Amazon, Apple & Intel – Good, average & bad

Amazon Q2 2022 – Good. Amazon reported good results and guidance as AWS and its on-site advertising business supported softness in its biggest business and are expected to enhance e-commerce...

Meta & Qualcomm – Macro not micro

Meta Platforms Q2 2022 – Slows the Metaverse. Meta Platforms reported soft numbers and increased the price for the Oculus VR headset in a sign that the next year or...

Google & Microsoft – Big is beautiful

Alphabet Q2 2022 – Taken share. Alphabet reported weaker than expected results but crucially they were not as bad as feared and the company spoke reasonably optimistically about its outlook....

Faraday Future – No Future

FF’s future lies in Chapter 7 or 11. Faraday Future gave a glimpse of its inevitable future with yet another delay of its vehicle that was first expected to hit...

Snap & Twitter – Snap to reality

Snap Q2 2022: Out of road. Snap’s growth has ground to a halt as a result of the recession and greater competition meaning that the focus needs to be on...

Peloton – The obvious move

The turnaround begins. Peloton has fired the starter’s gun on its turnaround by announcing its exit from making fitness equipment but the tepid reaction of the share price indicates just...

Tech Newsround – Google & Klarna

Google Play: The slippery slope. Google has announced a countersuit against Match Group as the concessions that it originally made clearly do not go far enough, underlining just what a...

Twitter – The price of free speech pt. VI

Musk and the board swap places. Mr Musk is seeking to kill his deal to acquire Twitter after realising that Twitter is greatly overvalued at $54.20 per share which is...

Autonomous Driving – Pie in the sky pt. III

The pie has crashed back to earth. Another autonomous driving upstart is cutting back staff in order to preserve dwindling cash as revenues remain years away and current conditions will...

Samsung Q2 2022 – Supercycle pt. VI.

Samsung triggers a relief rally. Samsung reported results that broadly met expectations and I suspect that Samsung will be taking share in the coming quarters which would begin to explain...