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Facebook & Google – The Wizard of OZ pt. III.

Regulator claims a victory which looks like defeat. The Australian regulator is claiming victory in its fight with Facebook and Google, but I suspect that its only achievement is to...

Anthropic & Open AI – Mission impossible

Breakaway start-up has an impossible mission. Anthropic is a new breakaway start-up from Open AI but its approach remains pretty much the same meaning that its focus on “reliable, interpretable...

Epic vs. Apple – A right Battle Royale pt. VIII.

The outcome is likely to be somewhere in the middle. The first stage of this battle is over as the judge has retired to consider her decision, but it looks...

Amazon & MGM – One last roar?

Amazon overpays for a jaded asset. Amazon is acquiring MGM Studios to bolster its digital ecosystem but while it has a great name and impressive catalogue, its distinct lack of...

Peloton – Backwards pedalling.

Peloton should be moving out of hardware. Peloton’s move deeper into hardware will benefit the company in the short term, but as the value in this sector moves into software...

China Ecosystems – Falling heads.

No oligarchs please we are Chinese. The withdrawal of Zhang Yiming from the management of ByteDance is all about ensuring that the IPO goes well and that the events that...

Epic vs. Apple – A right Battle Royale pt. VII

Tim Cook has a really bad memory. There are a number of items that stretch one’s credibility in the testimony given by senior Apple executives which I think has started...

Arm & NVIDIA – RISC Risk

RISC-V gains more momentum. One of the big problems of Arm’s perceived loss of independence by being acquired by NVIDIA is that interest in rivals, once thought to be dead,...

Crypto – No currencies here

Currencies in name only. While cynics will call Tesla’s recent policy changes regarding Bitcoin a classic pump and dump, I think that they are a clear demonstration that cryptocurrencies are...

Crypto – Picks and shovels

The genie is finally out of the bottle? While cryptocurrencies and digital tokens are grabbing all of the headlines, I think that the real action is going to be in...