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Peloton – Game on.

Peloton finally gets one right. Peloton’s move into virtual cycling games should provide some exclusivity for its bikes which if taken to its logical conclusion may help cushion the company...

Aurora – Shirtless in Mountain View pt. II

Part I can be found here Part II – Aurora demands the shirt off the investor’s back. The valuation of this deal is even more divorced from reality than Tesla...

Aurora – Shirtless in Mountain View pt. I

A look at the Aurora SPAC in two parts The autonomous trucking company is going public at $11bn with mediocre technology and a financial plan that will not see the...

Tencent vs. China – The authoritarian moment pt. II.

Tencent’s treatment will help predict what happens to everyone else.  Of the two possible motivations that lie behind the increasing regulatory clampdown on the Chinese technology sector, it is the...

VW – New Auto.

New Auto raises new issues. VW has outlined how it plans to transform from a petrol-powered box shifter into a vendor of software and services, but this throws up a...

Didi – Blood in the water.

Sharks gather to capitalise on Didi’s woes. The brutal suspension of Didi’s app has left the door wide open for all of Didi’s previously crushed rivals to emerge and have...

Microsoft & ATT – Packet pushers.

AT&T admits that it can’t compete. By selling its Network Cloud platform to Microsoft and moving all of its 5G core over to Azure, ATT is admitting that it cannot...

Digital Ecosystems – Not so skewed.

Facebook sponsored report is very misleading.  Comscore’s latest study seems to indicate just how dominant Apple and Google are on their own platforms but I think this is very misleading...

Samsung Q3 21 – Supercycle.

Samsung sets the tone for the supercycle.  Samsung’s strong results herald a super cycle in semiconductors that will look fantastic on the way up but is likely to be just...

ByteDance – The crown jewels.

ByteDance is not selling the crown jewels.   While it would appear that ByteDance is making its crown jewels available to all and sundry, a look through the offering reveals...