Archive For

October 2018

Facebook & Baidu – Tough times.

Reasonable numbers but tough outlook. Facebook Facebook reported reasonable results but I still don’t think that the market has fully appreciated the difficulty that the...

Faraday Future – The wrong man pt. II.

Red flags everywhere The saga of Faraday Future continues with further evidence of terrible financial management which serves to underpin my view that while Jia...

IBM & Red Hat – Picks and shovels.

IBM can now lay a claim to the cloud. IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat needs to go well because the $34bn that IBM is paying...

GOOG, AMZN & SNAP – 3 Black marks

AMZN & Snap struggle. GOOG is just fine. Performance relative to expectations drove the earnings of Amazon, Google and Facebook obscuring that at least in...

Spotify – Campaign launch

The assault on the labels begins. Spotify has formally launched what I think is the first element of a strategy that will see the obsolescence...

Verizon – Dumb pipe

More excited about its pipe than the contents Verizon reported good Q3 18 results headlining with 510,000 smartphone post-paid net adds, 5G and 6% YoY...

Google & Co. – Broken Valley pt. V.

Google, & Co. have their tentacles in almost everything that’s “free” RFM’ use of Google as the developed market’s benchmark for monetisation gains greater foundation...

Google vs. EU – Priced to fail

Even at $15 per unit, the impact is catastrophic. Google’s price list for its apps minus Chrome and Search is an indication that the economics...

Facebook – Bottom of the class

Yet another AI red flag. Another small slip-up by Facebook reveals just how challenging its AI problem is and why it must continue to hire...

Essential Products – The obvious clue

Must-have, not me too needed to survive. The clue to a recovery for Essential Products Inc. is in the name but so far, none of...