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Chinese Internet – BAT by proxy.

Reply to this post B retreats. A&T advance.   Meituan-Dianping is buying Mobike for $2.7bn in a move that is mostly about a defence against Didi but will also help...

Google, Amazon and Apple – Battle for the smart home pt. VII

Reply to this post           Google’s race to lose. Google appears to be catching Amazon more quickly than I expected when it comes to smart speaker...

Supercell – Look east.

Reply to this post           Supercell looks like it is out of ideas. Supercell has had a difficult 2017 driven by its failure to release a...

Baidu & Uber – Time to pivot

Reply to this post           Both need to change to fare well. Baidu Baidu reported good Q4 17 results as it has put the tribulations of...

Alibaba – Offline grab pt. II

Reply to this post           Alibaba adds an offline vertical and cleans house Alibaba is yet again increasing its assault on the offline portion of the...

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...