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Airbnb & Uber – Tale of two marketplaces.

Airbnb Q2 2022 – Great company, bad stock. Airbnb reported good results and cash flow but concerns around growth hit sentiment which has obviously prompted the company to announce a...

Artificial Intelligence – Generic origami pt. III

AlphaFold almost fulfils its promise. DeepMind has expanded a crucial biological database by 200x confirming that an entire branch of scientific enquiry is now virtually obsolete. AlphaFold is DeepMind’s algorithm...

Amazon, Apple & Intel – Good, average & bad

Amazon Q2 2022 – Good. Amazon reported good results and guidance as AWS and its on-site advertising business supported softness in its biggest business and are expected to enhance e-commerce...

Google & Microsoft – Big is beautiful

Alphabet Q2 2022 – Taken share. Alphabet reported weaker than expected results but crucially they were not as bad as feared and the company spoke reasonably optimistically about its outlook....

Faraday Future – No Future

FF’s future lies in Chapter 7 or 11. Faraday Future gave a glimpse of its inevitable future with yet another delay of its vehicle that was first expected to hit...

Snap & Twitter – Snap to reality

Snap Q2 2022: Out of road. Snap’s growth has ground to a halt as a result of the recession and greater competition meaning that the focus needs to be on...

Peloton – The obvious move

The turnaround begins. Peloton has fired the starter’s gun on its turnaround by announcing its exit from making fitness equipment but the tepid reaction of the share price indicates just...

Tech Newsround – Google & Klarna

Google Play: The slippery slope. Google has announced a countersuit against Match Group as the concessions that it originally made clearly do not go far enough, underlining just what a...

Twitter – The price of free speech pt. VI

Musk and the board swap places. Mr Musk is seeking to kill his deal to acquire Twitter after realising that Twitter is greatly overvalued at $54.20 per share which is...

Autonomous Driving – Pie in the sky pt. III

The pie has crashed back to earth. Another autonomous driving upstart is cutting back staff in order to preserve dwindling cash as revenues remain years away and current conditions will...