Apple is accelerating efforts to build its first electric car, designating it internally as a “committed project” and setting a target date for 2019 to finalize the product, people familiar with the matter said. It has happened with other markets before, and it will keep happening. ‘What if Apple entered the X business?‘ That question …
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This is a good summary of some of the problems big media assets are fighting against. Google, Apple and Facebook are trying to control the news and our way to get informed. They are trying to control content, because content is the gateway to ads. Quoting Patel: Unfortunately, the ads pay for all that content, …
The Tech Bubble is clearly here for lots of people (I’m one of them) and clearly not there for lots of others (Marc Andreessen obviously amongst them). I think this article from Vanity Fair gives us several good arguments that can’t be easily denied. Too many companies with dubious business plans that seem to solve …
The small Japanese company UPQ has launched 21 gadgets in 2 months and has showed that anyone can compete with the giants if he/she has talent and works hard. From the article: When asked if she’s trying to become the Xiaomi of Japan, Nakazawa deflects. “Big Japanese tech companies are in trouble,” she says. “I want …
Brin and Page are natural cofounders. I guess the maturity of Google is boring to them. They want to start projects, not manage them once they’re established. This a good excuse to create Alphabet and leave Google in the best hands: Sundar Pichai seems really competent. I don’t really get why Google is part of …