Reply to this post The best automotive infotainment unit is the one in my pocket A car maker with a future is a car maker that realises how vital its data is and pays the buyers of its vehicles for the right to use it. This also has the added benefit of creating a relationship...
Reply to this post Facebook chasing broadcast rather than Netflix or YouTube. Facebook’s move into Media Consumption is well underway but it looks to me to be going after broadcast rather than premium or user-generated content. Facebook has closed a deal for a reality TV show called Last State Standing and is close to doing...
Reply to this post Rovio could help Tencent spread its wings. Rovio is almost certainly past its prime but it has an asset that could be capitalised on should the right buyer come along. Tencent is not showing any real signs of being the right buyer at the moment but its ownership of Supercell makes...
Reply to this post Airbnb unlikely to win in China. Airbnb, like Uber and Amazon before it, has fight on its hands when it comes to the Chinese market meaning that it will have to do something very different to break the current losing streak. Apple is the one exception which I think is due...
Reply to this post Very little AI in the assistant that has launched. Now that Facebook’s digital assistant is available in the wild, one can see how simplistic it is indicating just how far Facebook still has to go to get a real grip on making its services more intelligent. Facebook M has been in...
Reply to this post Very little interest in mobile gaming at E3. E3 is the biggest trade show for the computer games industry but it still seems to be ignoring one of its most important segments: gaming on mobile devices. Mobile gaming is radically different from gaming on PCs and consoles in three ways: First:...
Reply to this post Intel shoots at Asia rather than at home. With another attempt to replace Intel chips in PCs on the cards, Intel has moved to protect its position with a not so subtle reminder that its instruction set is covered by a large number of patents. The 40th anniversary of the x86...
Reply to this post Homeless robots find permanent shelter. Alphabet has reached a deal to sell both Boston Dynamics and Schaft to SoftBank leaving it more focused on its core business of collection and monetisation of Internet data. Boston Dynamics is a robotics company that specialises in robots that are autonomous as far as navigating...
Reply to this post Home is where the heart is While I am not a fan of Essential Products’ phone (see here), I think that the strategy around the smart home is bang on I think it has created the right product. I don’t like the phone simply because it does not do anything particularly...
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Snap Inc. – Snap in the box.
Reply to this post Facebook keeps Snap Inc. in its box. Despite launching in August 2016, Instagram Stories has been extremely successful in mitigating the threat from Snap Inc. as it already has 50% more users than Snapchat. In a blog detailing some feature updates, Facebook has disclosed that Instagram Stories now has over 250m...