Hints and tips:
...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...They compared this to cider being described as made from apples, although the majority content is water....
...The FANG+ index — which includes Tesla and Baidu as well as Facebook et al — may be only down a little at pixel time, but it has plunged by just over a quarter since the turn of the year....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan Letter in response to this article: Uber et al are not entitled to ‘own’ anything / From Stephen Swift, London, UK...
...Digital news TV switch While newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting...
...#techFT is a daily newsletter on technology, media and telecoms. You can sign up here....
...Tim Cook, Apple chief, flew to Brussels to lobby against a tax probe and Google and Facebook have also faced tax protests....
...Ask IWC, Breitling, Montblanc, Bulgari, Gucci, Frédérique Constant et al why they have made “connected” watches this year and they will all say smartwatches are the next big thing....
...The other challenge for HP, Dell, et al is that the biggest customers can do it themselves. Google designs and builds its own serv” programme....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Citi’s Yeung et al make one last and very interesting point....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Readers’ Hub brings together newspapers (powered by PressDisplay), books (from Kobo) and magazines (courtesy of Zinio) into one app, while Social Hub pulls together Facebook, Twitter et al....
...A number of developers have complained that Apple is wielding its power unfairly, restricting their choices when there is no technical reason for the iPhone et al not to display Flash....
...But questions over whether being open source is more of a marketing badge or a means of differentiating your platform to Windows, Apple et al, is irrelevant to many developers....
...Apple MacBook Q. I have always liked the design of Apple’s products but have eschewed their notebooks because of the poor way the OS handles MS Windows et al....
...He also holds 3 per cent of Apple Computer, which competes with Sony in sectors such as digital music players....
International Edition