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Meta Platforms – Give and take pt. II

About half of the savings will materialise. Meta Platforms has announced further job cuts which will help reduce expenses but the renewed subsidisation of the Metaverse may well eat up...

Google – Headless chicken pt. II

Google needs to calm down and do what it is best at. Microsoft has finally managed to get under Google’s skin and the level of panic that has ensued could...

Meta Platforms – Give and take

Zuckerberg giveth and he taketh away. Meta Platforms is giving to its investors with further job cuts likely but at the same time taking it away by cutting the price...

Artificial Intelligence – The madness of crowds

Generative AI has bubble written all over it. The signs are everywhere from ridiculous valuations to outlandish use cases and every man and his dog now wanting to build one,...

MWC 2023 Day 3 – Fair nightmare

Subsidising failure is a bad idea. The most recent debate doing the rounds at MWC is the idea that Big Tech should pay some of the cost of rolling out...

MWC 2023 Day 2 – Always frowning

Floor report – No smiles here. The buzz on the floor is back but the halls of power seem to be filled with doom and gloom as one presentation after...

MWC 2023 Day 1 – Back in business

Floor report – China returns Mobile World Congress 2023 is finally pretty much back where we left it in 2019 and, although footfall and exhibitors are still clearly lower than...

MWC 2023 Day 0 – Party pooper

Ericsson – Blowing sentiment Mobile World Congress 2023 is about to start, but Ericsson has gotten things off to a bad start with a further 8,500 layoffs indicating that life...

Lucid Q4 22 & Alibaba FQ3 23 – Rough ride

Lucid Q4 2022 – Cash conservation. Lucid has moved into cash conservation mode as it is clearly concerned about demand and cash burn but ironically, all is likely to remain...

Artificial Intelligence – Here comes Skynet pt. II.

The machines are not coming. The idea that the world might not be far from “potentially scary” AI is as absurd now as it was when it was first uttered...