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Amazon – Proper practitioner? pt II.

Reply to this post           An experiment that might finally work.  Following Amazon’s painfully expensive experiment in distributing its ecosystem with a mobile device of its...

LINE – Number trouble.

Reply to this post           I can’t get close to the IPO valuation. LINE has filed to go public in July but the valuation that is...

Tencent & Supercell – Mix of clans

Reply to this post           Integration with China not critical but it is elsewhere.  Tencent has announced that it is leading a buyout of Supercell but...

Spotify – Magic 100

Reply to this post            100m users begins to tip the scale in Spotify’s favour. Spotify has announced that it has past 100m users of which...

Apple vs. Google – Private investigations

Reply to this post           Apple can afford privacy where Google & Co. cannot.  At its recent developer conference Apple gave more details about its intentions...

Twitter – Clouds of sound.

Reply to this post            10% of SoundCloud fixes nothing. Twitter is investing $70m in SoundCloud by taking the majority of its current $100m funding round...

Microsoft & LinkedIn – Stolen Thunder

Reply to this post           Microsoft and LinkedIn steal Apple’s thunder.  Microsoft has announced that it will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share or $26.3bn which...

Yahoo – Happy mathematics

Reply to this post           Yahoo looking attractive for the first time in a long while. The process of carving up Yahoo and handing out the...

Facebook & Microsoft – Hand in glove.

Reply to this post           I think Facebook could buy some or all of Microsoft’s consumer assets. Microsoft and Facebook are jointly building an undersea cable...

Oracle vs. Google – The merry-go-round pt. II.

Reply to this post           It might have been better for Google if it had lost. The jury has found that Google’s use of Oracle’s APIs...