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Apple – Apples and oranges

Reply to this post           Apple doesn’t quite reach 50%. While the finding that Apple generated over half of all revenues in the smartphone market in...

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...

Digital Assistants – Dissociative identity

Reply to this post           Siri’s fragmentation could be her undoing. Apple’s focus on devices has meant that there are multiple different implementations of Siri which...

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...

Google & Microsoft – Worlds apart

Reply to this post           Google and Microsoft go their separate ways. With every quarter that passes, Google and Microsoft move further and further apart to...

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...

Snap Q4 17 – Free parking

Reply to this post           Snap’s problems parked for 9 months. Snap has finally managed to reap the benefits of its efforts to turn around the...

Autonomous Autos – Dark horses.

Reply to this post           Waymo’s lead shrinks to 5 to 1. Analysis of autonomous testing data submitted to the California DMV for 2017, reveals that...

Corporate governance – Caveat emptor.

Reply to this post           HKSE sells out investors. In a bid not to repeat the ignominious loss of the Alibaba IPO to NYSE, the Hong...