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Alphabet, Baidu & Amazon – West vs. East.

Reply to this post           US fares far better than China. Alphabet and Amazon reported very strong results while Baidu struggled to deal with the shift...

Snap – Reality of fad.

Reply to this post           Snap learns a hard lesson. Snap generated plenty of interest around its first hardware product but the fact that more than...

Artificial Intelligence – Go-getter.

Reply to this post           A breakthrough that Facebook badly needs. Google DeepMind has reported substantial progress on one of the big three challenges of AI...

Broadcast TV – Sword of Damocles pt. III.

Reply to this post           OTA broadcast given a second chance. While Netflix and Amazon continue to make inroads into the cable TV subscribing population, the...

Yandex – Homeless.

Reply to this post           Alice needs a hardware home. Yandex has jumped on the digital assistant bandwagon but with its history, it should be able...

Amazon & Microsoft – One-way street

Reply to this post           Amazon gets the best of it for now. Amazon looks to be the main beneficiary of the co-operation between Amazon and...

Google – Brain boxes

Reply to this post           Clever devices are useless without volume. Behind the carefully orchestrated event was a series of strategies aimed at driving penetration of...

Ola vs. Uber – Turntable

Reply to this post           Ola has one chance to turn the tables on Uber. Ola has secured $2bn in funding from Softbank and Tencent which...

iPhone X – One trick pony

Reply to this post           Face ID will make or break this device. I have long believed that this year’s iPhone offerings will not trigger a...

India e-commerce – Second front.

Reply to this post           Amazon goes for the jugular. Amazon is not content just to let its rivals gift it the Indian market through their...