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Peloton vs. Unity – Tale of two crashes

Peloton is cheap but Unity is not. Bad results from both companies caused further share price declines but Peloton is moving into deep value territory whereas Unity by any measure...

Epic, Sony & Lego – Legblox Station

Epic games strengthens its Metaverse silo.  Most of the $2bn being invested in Epic Games will be used to build a version of the Metaverse that will bring together at...

The Metaverse – Enterprise first

Enterprise Metaverse is now.  Almost all of the limitations that are going to prevent the Metaverse from taking off any time soon are much less relevant in the enterprise meaning...

Tech Newsround – Arm & China Metaverse

SoftBank – Arm IPO. Arm China is holding up the relisting of Arm and the less-than-ideal solution that SoftBank is proposing highlights again my view that SoftBank may be better...

The Metaverse – Chinese walls.

The first example of “build the wall”. With the strategic rivalry between the West and China rapidly evolving into an ideological struggle (see here), new technologies that emerge are likely...

Roblox Q4 21 – The hangover

Roblox suffers a big hangover from the COVID party. Another Metaverse darling is struggling with slower growth underlining that the Metaverse is many years away making it un-investible for all...

Tech Newsround – Twitter Q4 & the Metaverse

Twitter Q4 2021 – Social graph. Twitter has managed to avoid the depredation of Apple’s privacy features underlining that while Twitter is a niche offering, it executes on that niche...

Research Publication – Digital Ecosystems – The Metaverse Vol I – There can be only one

8th February 2022 – RFM extends its coverage of the digital ecosystem to include the Metaverse with the publication of Digital Ecosystems – The Metaverse Vol. I – There can...

Tech Newsround – Report week

Semis should fare the best this week. Most of the big tech names will report their results over the next four days and while I expect most to have had...

Microsoft / Activision – 2nd time lucky

Microsoft has a 2nd shot at the consumer ecosystem. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision is a sure sign that the gold rush for the Metaverse is now in full swing which...