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Facebook – The obvious move

Integration benefit overshadowed by AI. After a long 4½ year wait, Facebook is finally integrating its Digital Life services that will enable it to meaningfully improve the service that offers...

Google vs. Amazon – Battle for the smart home pt . XIII

Google increasingly at risk of losing. Walmart has abandoned Google Express dealing what is likely to be a fatal blow to Google’s attempt to challenge Amazon in the one place...

Sharing economy – China bloodbath.

Didi in pole position but should not rush to IPO. The Mobike brand is about to disappear in yet another sign that while the sharing economy offers great deals to...

Network economy – Unicorns and Donkeys Pt. VI

2019 will be the year of the shake-out. With a darker economic picture and shrinking access to capital, 2019 is shaping up to be a year where the donkeys (see...

Facebook – The foot vote.

Facebook must entice users not to disengage. Facebook’s future is going to be determined by whether users uncomfortable with being tracked disengage from using Facebook services. So far, the data...

Microsoft Cortana – Dead or alive.

Cortana offers more dead than alive. With usage at rock bottom and its Cortana leader resigned, Microsoft is clearly distancing itself and its products from the hapless Cortana which now...

Wearables – Fossil fuel.

Wearables to remain fossilised. Google has purchased the right to use and disseminate core IP from Fossil for $40m (stoking rumours of a Pixel Watch) but I can’t see anything...

ByteDance – Staying private

ByteDance signals the Chinese IPO window may be closing. On top of its star service being hit with draconian regulations (see here) which will damage long-term prospects, the Chinese economy...

Chinese Ecosystems – Ball and Chain

A losing strategy. More draconian regulations are falling upon the Chinese ecosystems that I think will kill innovation, raise costs and severely hamper China’s ambitions to lead the world in...

CES 2019 – Dark horses of Vegas.

Interesting offerings that slipped through the cracks. Real wireless power Thanks to Apple, wireless charging using the Qi standard is now everywhere, but far more interesting is the possibility to...