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Monday's Musings: Margin Compression - Tech Vendors Are You Leading The Way Or In The Way?

Margin Compression Is Pernicious, Disruptive, and Exponential In Impact Technologies for the enterprise have often been seen as enablers for disruption and change. Over the past five decades as one technology or vendor would come to prominence and dominate a market, challengers would apply new technologies or business models to topple the legacy market and create new markets. Silicon Valley built its credibility on these disruptive market entrants. This cycle would continue to repeat itself until the next challenger became the market leader and struggle to hold on to its lead while meeting the demands of investors and the market.
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Monday's Musing: When The Hunters Become The Hunted

Expect Software Giants Hunters To Soon Be The Hunted In A Digital Giant's Quest For Growth Six of the Magnificent Seven (Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet [Google], Amazon, Meta [Facebook]) stocks have entered the four comma club -over $1 trillion in market cap. With a combined market cap of over $13.2 trillion, these six players continue to defy physics with continuous quarters of double digit organic growth. Digital giants by definition have deployed five key strategies:
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News Analysis: Inside The Proposed Digital Giant Anti-Trust Bills

On Friday, June 11th, US lawmakers unveiled a series of five bills designed to limit the influence and power of the digital giants.  After years of lengthy investigation by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, these bills targeted Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and any future company

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Winner Takes All

Big idea: The Digital Giant Ethos

Today's Startups Are Designed To Be Monopolies On Day One From day one, startups are designed to dominate markets, overthrow existing Fortune 500's, and emerge as a monopoly. Sector after sector has become a winner-takes-all — or two-winners-take-all — bloodbath:
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News Analysis: Digital Giant Coinbase Breaks Past $100 Billion Valuation In Direct Listing

Coinbase Debut Legitimizes Cryptocurrency Trading Coinbase is the NASDAQ of Cryptocurrencies. They generate 96% of revenue from transaction fees and earned more in Q1 than all of 2020. The digital giant debuted as a profitable company on April 14th, 2021. At the time of direct listing, Coinbase shares opened at $381 and almost broke $429.54 throughout a volatile trading day.
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News Analysis: Social Media's Turning Point - Clubhouse

Elon Musk's Tacit Endorsement Puts Clubhouse On The World Stage At about 10:00 pm pacific time tonight, the world will experience a turning point in social media. The text heavy, image heavy social media platforms will be put on alert by an audio only competitor that was released early in February 2020.
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Digital Giants Market Analysis: Microsoft | Apple | Tesla Q4 2020 Earnings Hint Strong Growth

The Q4 2020 big tech earnings season started with Netflix and their great numbers.  Apple and Microsoft report on Tuesday their Q4 2020 and all indications seem to show good growth.  Tesla's numbers are officially announced on Wednesday.

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