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Pinterest – Ready, set, go!

Ready for recovery? Pinterest is changing its CEO with its founder moving aside to make room for new blood from Google that will undoubtedly start to shake things up which...

Autonomous Autos 2021 – Creaking at the seams

AutoX takes a questionable lead. Waymo, Baidu (Apollo) and Zoox have fallen way down in the ratings leading me to question whether the analysis of the California DMV data as...

Arm / SoftBank – No winners

Delay is increasingly the best option. The discussion over which exchange Arm is going to re-list on is increasingly irrelevant as the far more pressing issue is how SoftBank is...

The Metaverse – Turing test

Turing is not the issue. Meta Platforms has revealed a series of prototypes that it intends to develop into products that will make its Metaverse irresistible to users but I...

Klarna – WeWork replay?

Despite the parallels, Klarna is not a re-run of WeWork. At a high level, Klarna looks like a re-run of WeWork although it is a much better company meaning that...

Nothing Phone – Risky branding

Nothing phone needs to not live up to its name. Another brave soul has decided to have a crack at the highly concentrated and brutally competitive smartphone market which, unless...

Crypto – Coin crunch pt. II

Crypto heads for a deep freeze. The rhetoric around the safe haven and inflation hedging properties of crypto has gone eerily quiet as it transpires that cryptocurrencies are nothing more...

Automotive tech – Signs in the road.

EV SPACs break down and Geely gets it right. EVs: One down, many more to go EV SPAC Electric Last Mile Solutions (ELMC) has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy indicating...

Artificial Intelligence – Infinite monkeys

I don’t think LaMDA is anywhere close to being sentient. Another disagreement between Google and one of its researchers has sparked a big debate on whether AI has become sentient,...

China Tech – Bottom ahoy!

The state sees some sense at last. The readmittance of Didi (and two others) to the Chinese transport market is the first tangible evidence that the regulatory crackdown that has...