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Have We Reached Peak Tech?

Mark Mulligan

27 Sep 2019

Alexa

disruption

dot com

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...

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Spotify’s New Rules of Engagement

Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2018

investors

Spotify

spotify as a label

It is easy to feel that the pervasive obsession with Spotify overplays its importance to the recorded music industry. On the one hand it may only represent 27% of global recorded music revenues, but this...

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Has Snapchat Learned From Twitter’s IPO?

Zach Fuller

14 Oct 2016

Amazon

augmented reality

echo

Snap Inc, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, have hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for a seemingly imminent IPO. In addition to being one of the first app generation unicorns (alongside...

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