Winners and losers in the post-coronavirus world. The future of tech as a tool to solve global challenges. The acceleration of the Cloud wars
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Video
AT&T’s 2Q19 results show again an increasing pressure on the PayTV business in the US market, with the company suffering a net loss of -778K “premium video” subscribers and of -168K in their…
Applications
Snap presented yesterday a set of excellent 2Q19 results, that are pushing up the company’s share price (+12% after hours). The big driver was a +8% annual increase in daily active…
The massively successful TikTok app from the emerging Chinese giant ByteDance is evolving to expand its scope, and taking some tricks from Instagram for this. The company has confirmed…
RETAIL
Amazon is holding its annual “Prime Day” today, looking to increase the number of Prime subscriptions, a “vital tool” that is increasingly at the core of the company’s strategy, as a way to increase loyalty and customers’ lifetime value…
Tech & Telecom news — Jul 3, 2019
In the US, pressure from expanding video streaming offers on traditional PayTV players is increasing…
Enterprise
Synergy Research has published 1Q19 figures for the Cloud SaaS market. In contrast with infrastructure (IaaS), this is a very fragmented space, where Microsoft (17% share, +34% growth) and…
Advertising
Chinese group ByteDance’s app, TikTok, which is capturing massive audience globally with its short-video-clips format, is now preparing to steal advertising market share from direct…
Connectivity
Just 2 months after the launch, South Korean operators have now more than 1m 5G subscribers. This is a higher uptake rate than the one for 4G in 2011 (when it took 80 days to reach the…
Video games
The cloud gaming wars between Microsoft, as an incumbent, and Apple / Google as attackers keeps heating up. As an example, Microsoft has just said that they will leverage their strong…