Alexa Looks for a New Job
Deep-pocketed Amazon is making cuts to the digital assistant after losing up to $5 billion a year in a largely successful effort to boost usage. Is a move to another division of the e-commerce juggernaut in the offing?
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Layoffs will continue until sales improve
Tech companies leave the vision thing on the back burner, for now, in search of profits
Tesla is Already Losing Market Share
Warren Buffet-backed Chinese carmaker BYD is giving Tesla a run for their money despite not being in the U.S. market. Don’t have $60,000 for an EV? Electric bike sales are booming.
How to Make TikTok Work for You
In Else Newsletter # 21, we share tips from people who are using TikTok with great results, explain why this could have helped cause the terrible quarter other social networks just had, and see if we can spot the Chinese Communist Party lurking behind the craziest video feed in the world
The Circuit Shuts Off
In Else newsletter #20, we review the impact of the latest U.S. government restrictions on Chinese chip makers, as computer sales go down, and Microsoft finds its voice with a new chip
The big PC sales slump is here and likely to stay
As the coronavirus pandemic recedes, higher inflation and interest rates are making consumers and businesses think twice before buying new equipment
Brazilians Make Pix with Digital Payments
In Else newsletter #19, cash loses ground in one of its most enduring redoubts and competition for money heats up, while the unbanked still need help
The growing appeal of digital wallets
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and an e-commerce boom have helped digital wallets position themselves as a relevant payment alternative in bank-centered Latin America
I was working in the lab late one night
Newsletter #18 reports on how research labs have changed, tries to grasp the science of the new Nobel prize in chemistry, and notes the return of biotech IPOs