WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on July 31, 2020 - COVID-19 is moving businesses to the digital world

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: The pandemic is forcing to transform the digital operations of the companies. What are the possible beneficiaries? #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Google are the leaders of cloud-computing businesses. @WSJ  analyzes how #COVID19 will change the businesses structure. #CloudComputing

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: COVID19 is moving the businesses to a new digital world! Large customers are particularly critical for cloud vendors now, because the early-adopting smaller companies are among the hardest hit by the pandemic https://wsj.com/articles/big-businesses-multiyear-bets-fuel-cloud-growth-11596196893

via  @WSJ

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own tech think tank

MY WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - July 29, 2020

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• Domingo Trassens

• • Posted In NASA to Launch Its Most Ambitious Mars Rover Yet

  • Surely, Chinese in the road to Mars thanks all the technology secrets they have stolen to the United States.
  Jul 30, 2020 12:56 AM
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• • Posted In Tech CEOs Defend Operations Ahead of Congressional Hearing

  • Politicians from the right and the left criticize the Big Tech, but they use their services.
  Jul 30, 2020 12:47 AM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Rioters Attack More Than a Courthouse

  • Without any doubt, the current protests are the business of professional agitators who work for the destruction of the country.
  Jul 30, 2020 12:20 AM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Portland Is a Problem for Biden

  • The Democrats have to show that they are not behind the protests. And this is very difficult to show.
  Jul 28, 2020 10:04 PM
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• • Posted In CES Will Be Online Only in 2021, Opting Against Las Vegas Showcase

  • If CES 2021 as a virtual show works well, Las Vegas will lose forever the business of the conventions and big business events.
  Jul 28, 2020 9:48 PM
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• • Posted In CES Will Be Online Only in 2021, Opting Against Las Vegas Showcase

  • Las Vegas is losing the business of CES!
  Jul 28, 2020 9:40 PM
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• • Posted In Big Tech to Appear Before Congress on Wednesday

  • In general, the leaders of high tech companies are not conservative since a long time ago.
  Jul 28, 2020 9:38 PM
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• • Posted In Big Tech to Appear Before Congress on Wednesday

  • These guys have not problems.
  Jul 28, 2020 9:31 PM
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• • Posted In Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Final-Stage Testing

  • In the end,  the taxpayers will pay! (Also the vaccines for the illegal immigrants!)
  Jul 28, 2020 2:21 AM
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• • Posted In Opinion | What China Learned From Cold War America

  • Good question!
  Jul 26, 2020 5:05 PM
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• • Posted In Wells Fargo Tightens Purse Strings to Ride Out Coronavirus Pandemic

  • Cut costs is not enough to run as an efficient company.
  Jul 25, 2020 5:26 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | What China Learned From Cold War America

  • When an enemy hit the Americans, the Americans always react with power, intelligence and extraordinary fight spirit.
  Jul 24, 2020 9:05 PM
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• • Posted In Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All

  • Work remotely request work discipline, creativity, good technology tools and a great team of people.
  Jul 24, 2020 9:02 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Vaccine Progress Report

  • Probably you are right. Thank you for your observation.
  Jul 24, 2020 8:38 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | The Mnuchin Follies

  • Also Mr.  Mnuchin didn't manage well the negotiations with China before the COVID-19 crisis.
  Jul 24, 2020 3:25 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Vaccine Progress Report

  • My point is about a vaccine that is in the FIRST TESTING CYCLE. Who knows if this vaccine is really a "vaccine"?
  Jul 24, 2020 3:11 AM
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• • Posted In Secretary of State Pompeo to Urge Chinese People to Change the Communist Party

  • Before the birth, the Chinese are programmed according to the doctrine of President Xi.
  Jul 23, 2020 5:54 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Vaccine Progress Report

  • I will never trust in the possible  "testing" of Chinese. They always lie... For the first moment, they were played with the health of world.
  Jul 23, 2020 5:37 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Vaccine Progress Report

  • Maybe, you are right. However, the first testing is not enough to see if an effective vaccine.
  Jul 23, 2020 5:31 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Vaccine Progress Report

  • I believe that the amount of $1.95 billion is a lot of money for a vaccine in the first cycle of testing.
  Jul 23, 2020 5:14 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Vaccine Progress Report

  • Till now, it is early to see if the vaccine of BioNTech will be effective.
  Jul 23, 2020 4:54 PM
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• • Posted In Worker Unemployment Claims Hold at Historically High Levels

  • While the COVID-19 crisis continues, the unemployment will continue high....
  Jul 23, 2020 2:11 PM
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• • Posted In How Joe Biden Cut Into President Trump’s Campaign Cash Advantage

  • This is how a lot of voters are acting this year...
  Jul 22, 2020 10:51 PM
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• • Posted In U.S. and China to Launch Mars Missions, Vying for Space Supremacy

  • It is good that we agree, while a lot of people continue blind about the Chinese's goals.
  Jul 22, 2020 12:43 PM
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• • Posted In U.S. and China to Launch Mars Missions, Vying for Space Supremacy

  • We have to realize that the communist regimes are not peaceful regimes.   They always look for confrontations.
  Jul 22, 2020 12:08 AM
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• • Posted In U.S. and China to Launch Mars Missions, Vying for Space Supremacy

  • Chinese regime needs a furious competition against U.S. to continue in power and the Mars project is a great opportunity to make demonstration of power.
  Jul 22, 2020 12:05 AM
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• • Posted In U.S. and China to Launch Mars Missions, Vying for Space Supremacy

  • Chinese are stealing technology including to develop rockets and spatial aircrafts since long time ago. And they have thousands of technicians disguised   "as university students" in our best academic institutions.
  Jul 21, 2020 11:36 PM
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• • Posted In U.S. and China to Launch Mars Missions, Vying for Space Supremacy

  • Good point:  "... China needs an enemy in order to keep the regime in power."
  Jul 21, 2020 11:27 PM
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• • Posted In How Online School Will Be Better This Fall—But Still a Burden on Parents

  • Teachers cannot replace by parents helping the children in their free times.
  Jul 21, 2020 7:41 PM
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• • Posted In How Online School Will Be Better This Fall—But Still a Burden on Parents

  • In the primary school, the online education is not enough to introduce the children into key concepts of crucial disciplines like language and mathematics.
  Jul 21, 2020 7:37 PM
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WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on July 29, 2020 - A new threshold to Mars

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Is this the threshold to the Mars conquer? @WSJ posted “NASA is poised to launch its most ambitious robotic rover to Mars on Thursday, opening the next phase of exploration on the Red Planet.” NASA is sending the “Perseverance” robot to Mars. #Mars #NASA #perseverancerover

 

 

 

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: From  @WSJ to reread: "The $2.70 billion National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission will seek signs of ancient life on Mars that can be packaged and, for the first time, returned to Earth. #Mars  @NASA #NASAPerseverance #perseverancerover #Robotics #life

 

 

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, NASA

 

WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on July 28, 2020 - Can a business exhibition/conference become total digital?

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Can a business exhibition and conference become in total digital format? The Consumer Technology Association that organize the annual CES in Las Vegas announced its decision for 2021. If this experiment of #COVID19 times works, a new hit will suffer the big cities. #CES2021

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Another consequence of #COVID19: "The world’s largest consumer-electronics exhibition is going to be virtual in 2021." https://wsj.com/articles/ces-will-be-online-only-in-2021-opting-against-las-vegas-showcase-11595944800  via@WSJ

CES Will Be Online Only in 2021, Opting Against Las Vegas Showcase

The world’s largest consumer-electronics exhibition is going to be virtual in 2021, the latest sign that event hosts are being cautious about the future as coronavirus infection rates climb in the...

wsj.com

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Will CES 2021 in digital format a tech conference? CES 2021 cancels physical Las Vegas tech conference and moves to digital format next year https://tek.io/3jNazo6 via

@techrepublic

CES 2021 cancels physical Las Vegas tech conference and moves to digital format next year

The world's largest tech conference, CES, announced on Tuesday that it is going all-digital for 2021.

techrepublic.com

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal and TechRepublic.com

WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on July 27, 2020 - The cost of the delay in technology

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: What is the cost of a delay in the technology industry? According to the Intel newsroom, the design of new advanced processors is in delay. From other side, @WSJ comments that Dr. Venkata Renduchintala, the engineer leader of the project is leaving #Intel. Big purge!!! #tech

 

 

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Hard competition in advanced tech businesses hit their own brains. "Intel’s chief engineer is departing after the company says its move to 7-nanometer chips is a year off schedule." https://wsj.com/articles/intel-chief-engineer-departs-after-product-delay-11595886781

via @WSJ

Intel Chief Engineer Departs After Product Delay

Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala is leaving the company days after the semiconductor maker surprised investors by disclosing delays on its newest processor design. wsj.com

Through the Intel news, we see that despite COVID-19, in the technology arena, the projects cannot have delay.

SOURCES: Intel newsroom, The Wall Street Journal

WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on July 26 - What is the mission of a Chinese consulate?

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: What is the mission of a Chinese consulate in US? Theft of info? @WSJ wrote “The details of activities in the Houston consulate are murky, but U.S. officials say it played a significant role in orchestrating research theft in the Southeast. " #China #HoustonConsulate #theft

 

 

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: "Governments often operate secretively out of foreign consulates, but the US says China regularly crosses the line from diplomacy to intelligence operations and espionage. The US announced visa-fraud charges Thursday against four researchers..."@WSJ  #China #HoustonConsulate

 

 

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal

WORLDRETHINK:Twitter tour on July 25, 2020 - Mixes financial results in COVID19 times

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Mixed financial results of tech companies in the three worse COVID-19's months: "Verizon revenue drops." Intel revenues climbed but its more advanced chips are in delay. "AT&T profit sags." Schlumberger (oil) plans to cut 21,000 jobs. #revenue #COVID19 #Intel #Verizon #ATT

 

 

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Intel reported reasonable results for the COVID-19 times. https://wsj.com/articles/intel-reports-profit-surge-but-warns-of-further-delays-on-advanced-chips-11595536707

via@WSJ

Intel Reports Profit Surge But Warns of Further Delays on Advanced Chips

Intel reported stronger second-quarter earnings, buttressed by a work-from-home economy that has spurred demand for computing power, but it signaled a delay in its development of superfast chips.

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Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: COVID-19 times are not good for make normal businesses. "The largest U.S. cellphone carrier by subscribers reported a net gain of 173,000 postpaid phone connections during the three months that ended in June" https://wsj.com/articles/verizon-revenue-drops-as-coronavirus-slows-phone-shopping-11595593330

via@WSJ

Verizon Revenue Drops as Coronavirus Slows Phone Shopping

The largest U.S. cellphone carrier continued to add customers during the coronavirus pandemic, though quarterly revenue declined in its core wireless business and its online advertising unit.

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SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal