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Autonomous driving – Trouble at the top.

The rest must be in a real pickle. Waymo is taking a step backwards in terms of the commercial readiness of its autonomous driving offering by reinstalling safety drivers and...

Spotify – The wrong 99.9.

99.9% of India will be free not $9.99. Hopes of edgy investors are being raised by the notion that Spotify is now in a position to launch in India, but...

Fixed Internet – Creeping obsolescence.

A Small light at the end of the 5G tunnel. The latest data confirms what RFM’s Digital Life Pie has been indicating for some time: namely that increasingly, mobile is...

E-commerce – Chinese kingdom.

There is only one king of e-commerce. Amazon may have a higher market capitalisation than Alibaba but when it comes to the amount of business transacted, it is dwarfed into...

Facebook – Broken Valley pt. VI.

For once, I agree with Facebook. Facebook has been hit with a fine from a UK regulator over the Cambridge Analytical issue which I think is both unjustified and demonstrates...

Google Pixel – Damage done pt. II.

Google is still not a hardware company. Unnecessary problems with the latest Pixel device are a repeat of the issues that hampered the appeal of the Pixel 2 in 2017...

Xiaomi Q3 18 – Can carrier.

Internet Services can’t carry the can. Xiaomi reported good results but remains so dependent upon hardware from which it intends to limit its profitability, that it has very little hope...

Microsoft – The bigger threat.

Looks like its curtains for Cortana. Microsoft has received without a whimper a series of moves by Amazon that promotes its digital assistant Alexa over Cortana but now it has...

Blue Apron vs. HelloFresh – Bloody palms.

HelloFresh looks certain to crush Blue Apron. Blue Apron is in real trouble and, when compared to HelloFresh, it serves as a classic example of how important scale is in...

Tencent & Uber – Soul searching.

Both Tencent and Uber have some thinking to do. Uber Q3 18 Uber’s Q3 18 results show that it is not really capitalising on its dominance which increases my fear...