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Amazon vs. Alibaba – The Baba vote.

Things look much better for Alibaba. While demand is softening all over the world, Alibaba has pretty much priced in a pessimistic outlook but is starting to see a turn...

Geely & Meizu – Cars not phones

I don’t think Geely is interested in smartphones. Chinese car maker Geely has acquired a majority stake in Chinese smartphone maker, Meizu, not to become a powerhouse in smartphones but...

Klarna – WeWork replay pt. II

Klarna accepts reality. Klarna is raising $600m at $6.5bn in another clear example of the agonising problems that occur when one needs to raise money in a downturn when one...

Semiconductors – Supercycle pt. V.

Micron joins the canaries. Micron reported good FQ3 2022 results but guided badly blaming a sudden softening in demand that has forced it to slow its expansion sending the most...

Meta vs. Developers – Eaters of cake.

Developers want to have their cake and eat it. The notion that Meta Platforms is treating developers unfairly when it is on course to lose billions of dollars from subsidising...

Pinterest – Ready, set, go!

Ready for recovery? Pinterest is changing its CEO with its founder moving aside to make room for new blood from Google that will undoubtedly start to shake things up which...

Apple & The Metaverse – Not yet

2023 is too early. Despite feverish speculation, Apple failed to launch a Metaverse device at WWDC 2022 and now speculation has shifted to early 2023 which I continue to think...

Autonomous Autos 2021 – Creaking at the seams

AutoX takes a questionable lead. Waymo, Baidu (Apollo) and Zoox have fallen way down in the ratings leading me to question whether the analysis of the California DMV data as...

Arm / SoftBank – No winners

Delay is increasingly the best option. The discussion over which exchange Arm is going to re-list on is increasingly irrelevant as the far more pressing issue is how SoftBank is...

The Metaverse – Turing test

Turing is not the issue. Meta Platforms has revealed a series of prototypes that it intends to develop into products that will make its Metaverse irresistible to users but I...