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YouTube Ad Revenue Continues To Grow But For How Much Longer?

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Tim Mulligan
On Tuesday (28th April), Alphabet, the holding company for Google released its Q1 2020 results. The performance of Google is hugely important across both the digital economy and the financial sector. Google and Facebook between them account for the overwhelming majority of digital advertising outside of China, and Google is the G in the FAANGs – the tech major stocks that largely drove the US bull market, which came to a brief yet shuddering halt last month as the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed itself to Wall Street.
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Have We Reached Peak Tech?

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Mark Mulligan
In last week’s Take Five I highlighted a Vox story which reported that over the last year the number of companies using terms like ‘tech’ or technology’ in their documents is down 12%. This is an early indicator of a much more fundamental concept – we may have already reached peak in the tech sector, the business sector that has driven the fourth industrial revolution.
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Libra: A Reckoning for Crypto… or for Facebook?

Hanna Kahlert
Last week Facebook and its network of partners, including Spotify, MasterCard and Uber, announced the development of a new cryptocurrency, Libra , planned to go live next year. As the first tech major backed and (ideally) stable cryptocurrency, the implications are as numerous as they are extensive – should, of course, the latest in a long line of SomethingCoins manage to be meaningfully adopted at all.
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