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Yandex – Yet another speaker.

Alice finds a home.  At its annual developer conference names Yet Another Conference, Yandex unveiled a series of features and upgrades that are aimed at cementing its grip on the...

Baidu vs. Facebook – Chalk and cheese

Reply to this post           Baidu still No. 2 in AI.   Comparing how Baidu is using AI to manage user generated content to how Facebook...

Essential Products Inc. – An essential sale

Reply to this post           The wheels appear to have fallen off. Andy Rubin’s Essential Products Inc. is up for sale almost certainly because of a...

Samsung & Google – Engineering disease

Reply to this post           Intransigence helps Apple and the Chinese. Google and Samsung both have a bad case of engineering disease that prevents them from...

Baidu – Lower barriers

Reply to this post           Baidu removes barriers for Alibaba and Tencent. Hot on the heels of the spin off of iQiyi, Baidu has announced the...

Autonomous Autos – Double vision

Reply to this post           Humans can run red lights, machines can’t . Mobileye has a great excuse to why its autonomous system ran a red...

Sony – Old chestnut

Reply to this post           Old chestnut software problem is back. Sony is intending to change its stars by moving away from hardware towards content and...

Smart speakers – Pregnant pause

Reply to this post           Pause while products improve. Google is catching up with Amazon in the smart speaker race, but there are signs that growth...

Tencent Q1 18 – Expectations management

Reply to this post           Bad guidance is worse than no guidance at all. Tencent reported Q1 18 results that beat expectations but increased my concern...

Facebook – The thin ice

Reply to this post           Facebook security stats reveal flaws. Facebook disclosed Q1 enforcement data for the first time and while it is clear that Facebook...