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MWC 2022 Day 2 – Absent is good.

5G non-entity 5G is missing in action at its own show but in many ways, this is a good thing. It means that there is no real controversy, problem or...

MWC 2022 Day 1 – Blinking in the sunlight

Its hero not zero MWC emerges from the dark tunnel of the pandemic and its attendees are happy to see the sunlight once again. I think the GSMA will be...

MWC 2022 Day 0 – All about the numbers

Zero or Hero Mobile World Congress returns in earnest in 2022 which will prove to be a real test of how much damage the lockdown and video conferencing has done...

Alibaba FQ3 2022 – Nadir of fortunes

Priced for stagnation Alibaba reported reasonable results but heavy investments, competition and China’s restrictive zero COVID policy are hurting both growth and profitability in the short term. I think that...

China vs. China – Round 2

Chinese regulators come out swinging for round 2. It looks as if another round of crackdowns is about to be launched upon the Chinese technology sector and it is Tencent...

The Metaverse – Chinese walls.

The first example of “build the wall”. With the strategic rivalry between the West and China rapidly evolving into an ideological struggle (see here), new technologies that emerge are likely...

Roblox Q4 21 – The hangover

Roblox suffers a big hangover from the COVID party. Another Metaverse darling is struggling with slower growth underlining that the Metaverse is many years away making it un-investible for all...

Sea – All at sea

Sea is in for further rough weather. Sea has taken a big hit as India has banned its most popular game, Free Fire, creating the concern that the growth of...

MoviePass 2.0 – What Crypto?

MoviePass is back with another hare-brained wheeze. MoviePass has returned to life under its original founder with an idea to create a token-based marketplace for cinema coupons but how it...

Tech Newsround – Twitter Q4 & the Metaverse

Twitter Q4 2021 – Social graph. Twitter has managed to avoid the depredation of Apple’s privacy features underlining that while Twitter is a niche offering, it executes on that niche...