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Didi & OEMs– Bikes to cars

Reply to this post           Data will be the key to differentiation. If Didi does to automobiles what it has done to bikes, then the outlook...

Tencent – Age of empires.

Reply to this post           The WeChat empire spreads its wings. Not content with its dominance of the 3rd party app stores in China, Tencent has...

Huawei – Really Convincing Story, Not.

Reply to this post           RCS unlikely to lift Huawei from its commodity margins. One has to give credit to Huawei for realising that it has...

Didi – In the saddle.

Reply to this post           Didi can crush the bike sharing upstarts. In China where the bicycle is an integral part of daily transport, Didi has...

Google – One armed bandit pt. III.

Reply to this post           Google has very little chance in China. Google has made its first return to the Chinese market since 2010 but I...

CES Day 1 – From hard to soft.

Reply to this post           Samsung and GoPro suffer from software shortages.  Samsung The best news for Samsung at CES was the failure by Huawei to...

CES Day 0 – Car show

Reply to this post           No Planes, no trains, only automobiles. By far the strongest theme at CES 2018 is the digitisation of the automobile with...

Faraday Future – First to fall.

Reply to this post           FF looks certain to fail. It won’t be the last. The saga of Faraday Future may soon draw to a close,...

Apple vs. Spotify – Duck lines

Reply to this post           Two lines of ducks are forming. With a new alliance between Spotify and Tencent and the acquisition of Shazam by Apple,...

Xiaomi – Market timing

Reply to this post           Xiaomi considers a big equity event just as growth peaks again. Xiaomi’s genius for timing is confirmed as talk of an...