Another edition of the traditional post-CES report highlights interesting things and trends that the tech media ignored or missed. Donut – Zero or Hero? The top spot goes to Donut...
China increases its presence a bit and BMW pushes back on Apple. China – Economic Necessity Once again at CES, China is everywhere and nowhere at the same time as...
The time for talk is over. The outlook for 2025 is for another very bleak year where China falls even further behind the West, meaning that to turn things around,...
China does not have much of an answer. The outgoing administration will leave its mark with a further significant tightening of export rules and with the moribund state of its...
Timing of autonomous driving remains very uncertain. Pony AI has gone public on the back of revenues generated from engineering, but real growth will come from ride-sharing fares and when...
The first bricks go up. Huawei’s migration of its smartphone business to its home-grown Harmony OS is the first concrete sign that our long-predicted Balkanisation of the Internet has begun...
Rotten earnings point towards a state in deep depression. Poor results from both Baidu and PDD point directly to the moribund Chinese economy underpinning the view that nothing will improve...
Google: A badly thought-through remedy. The US Department of Justice is recommending that Google be forced to sell Chrome as a remedy for its illegal monopolisation of the search market...
Alibaba remains captive to China’s poor economy. The performance and outlook at Alibaba are a strong indication that in reality, the Chinese economy remains moribund and that a lot more...
USA vs. China – Carrot and Stick
I expect the new rule to stand. The USA has released new export rules that make good on the intentions released a few months ago that make life harder for...