WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on October 31, 2020 - Apple smiled to COVID19!

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Do you know that Apple smiled to #COVID19? @WSJ said "#Apple benefited from a significant uptick in sales of #laptops and iPads due to the pandemic, even as quarterly iPhone sales fell from a year earlier after a delay in the launch of the company’s flagship new smartphone.”

 

 

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: A lot of technology companies, and in particular the makers of digital devices, computers and cloud computing providers helping the people who continue working remotely during the pandemic. The phenomenon showed that #technology is a great tool in critical moments. #COVID19

 

 

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

WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on October 30, 2020 - Before 2020 Election Day

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Are 7 or 8 points a great different between Biden/Trump @WSJ wrote “Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by an average of 7 or 8 points in national surveys, more narrowly in battleground states. Everybody remembers the shock of 2016, but can the polls be wrong again? #Election2020

SOURCES:  The Wall Street Journal

WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on October 29, 2020 - A New Supreme Court?

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: In less than four years, the US Supreme Court changed dramatically. The arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett affirms the conservative profile of a key institution of the United States. Is this for good or bad? We will see in short. #AmyConeyBarrett #SupremeCourtConfirmation

 

 

MY WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - October 28, 2020

 

12,089 COMMENTS 6,800 LIKES

• Domingo Trassens

• • Posted In Microsoft’s Earnings Continue to Ride Pandemic-Fueled Demand for Cloud, Videogaming

  • Good that we agree! Thank you!
  Oct 28, 2020 12:21 AM
  2 Likes

• • Posted In Microsoft’s Earnings Continue to Ride Pandemic-Fueled Demand for Cloud, Videogaming

  • Amazon, Microsoft, Google are strong in cloud computing. And cloud computing was important  to work remotely.
  Oct 27, 2020 11:04 PM
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• • Posted In Microsoft’s Earnings Continue to Ride Pandemic-Fueled Demand for Cloud, Videogaming

  • I said "one of the companies that can smile to the pandemic". Amazon and Google are others of the same group!
  Oct 27, 2020 11:01 PM
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• • Posted In Microsoft’s Earnings Continue to Ride Pandemic-Fueled Demand for Cloud, Videogaming

  • Microsoft is one of the companies that can smile to the pandemic.
  Oct 27, 2020 9:08 PM
  16 Likes

• • Posted In Pope Francis Names Wilton Gregory as First Black American Cardinal

  • My opinion is that the Pope made this designation intentionally.
  Oct 25, 2020 3:27 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Pence’s Chief of Staff, Campaign Adviser Test Positive for Coronavirus

  • Probably, you are right...
  Oct 25, 2020 3:12 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Pope Francis Names Wilton Gregory as First Black American Cardinal

  • The Pope is pro-black lives Matter.
  Oct 25, 2020 2:48 PM
  4 Likes

• • Posted In Pope Francis Names Wilton Gregory as First Black American Cardinal

  • This designation has political implications.
  Oct 25, 2020 2:42 PM
  10 Likes

• • Posted In Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Nomination Set to Advance Sunday

  • Amy Coney Barrett is in the last step before to become the new member of the Supreme Court.
  Oct 25, 2020 2:39 PM
  14 Likes

• • Posted In Pence’s Chief of Staff, Campaign Adviser Test Positive for Coronavirus

  • The shadows of COVID-19 hit the White House... Bad!
  Oct 25, 2020 2:37 PM
  3 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | Biden’s Character Campaign

  • The Biden family businesses is an negative point in the background of the former vice president.
  Oct 23, 2020 12:15 PM
  4 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | A Good Debate, and It’s Not Quite Over

  • Maybe, the changes in the attitude of President Trump are not late.  We will see in two weeks.
  Oct 23, 2020 11:29 AM
  3 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | Trump, Biden, Hunter, Chaos

  • 2020 Elections: It will be good that in the last presidential debate, both parts make the maximun effort to put in the side the personal animosity and discuss about key issues that all the American citizens deserve to listen.
  Oct 22, 2020 2:37 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Pelosi, Mnuchin Make Final Push on Coronavirus Talks

  • We agree!!!
  Oct 21, 2020 2:38 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Pelosi, Mnuchin Make Final Push on Coronavirus Talks

  • Do the politicians care for the health of the people or for the votes they can receive?
  Oct 21, 2020 2:31 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Pelosi, Mnuchin Make Final Push on Coronavirus Talks

  • This is another political game in elections time...
  Oct 21, 2020 2:28 PM
  2 Likes

• • Posted In WSJ News Exclusive | Intel Nears Deal to Sell NAND Memory Unit to SK Hynix

  • We have to hope that the South Koreans don't bargain the Intel technology with the Chinese, Frequently, China's companies use other Asians to learn about American tech players.
  Oct 20, 2020 11:55 PM
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• • Posted In Microsoft Teams With Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Push Cloud Battle With Amazon Into Orbit

  • Bill Gates started Microsoft developing software for personal computers and domestic users. However, his vision about the great software projects was in his mind from the first moment.
  Oct 20, 2020 11:42 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Why Social Media Is So Good at Polarizing Us

  • The polarization of social media is a great business for Facebook. And the others follow to the "King".
  Oct 19, 2020 9:33 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Why Social Media Is So Good at Polarizing Us

  • You have an interesting point.
  Oct 19, 2020 8:52 PM
  3 Likes

MY WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - October 27, 2020

 

12,086 COMMENTS 6,777 LIKES

• Domingo Trassens

• • Posted In Microsoft’s Earnings Continue to Ride Pandemic-Fueled Demand for Cloud, Videogaming

  • Microsoft is one of the companies that can smile to the pandemic.
  Oct 27, 2020 9:08 PM
  4 Likes

• • Posted In Pope Francis Names Wilton Gregory as First Black American Cardinal

  • My opinion is that the Pope made this designation intentionally.
  Oct 25, 2020 3:27 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Pence’s Chief of Staff, Campaign Adviser Test Positive for Coronavirus

  • Probably, you are right...
  Oct 25, 2020 3:12 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Pope Francis Names Wilton Gregory as First Black American Cardinal

  • The Pope is pro-black lives Matter.
  Oct 25, 2020 2:48 PM
  4 Likes

• • Posted In Pope Francis Names Wilton Gregory as First Black American Cardinal

  • This designation has political implications.
  Oct 25, 2020 2:42 PM
  10 Likes

• • Posted In Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Nomination Set to Advance Sunday

  • Amy Coney Barrett is in the last step before to become the new member of the Supreme Court.
  Oct 25, 2020 2:39 PM
  14 Likes

• • Posted In Pence’s Chief of Staff, Campaign Adviser Test Positive for Coronavirus

  • The shadows of COVID-19 hit the White House... Bad!
  Oct 25, 2020 2:37 PM
  3 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | Biden’s Character Campaign

  • The Biden family businesses is an negative point in the background of the former vice president.
  Oct 23, 2020 12:15 PM
  4 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | A Good Debate, and It’s Not Quite Over

  • Maybe, the changes in the attitude of President Trump are not late.  We will see in two weeks.
  Oct 23, 2020 11:29 AM
  3 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | Trump, Biden, Hunter, Chaos

  • 2020 Elections: It will be good that in the last presidential debate, both parts make the maximun effort to put in the side the personal animosity and discuss about key issues that all the American citizens deserve to listen.
  Oct 22, 2020 2:37 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Pelosi, Mnuchin Make Final Push on Coronavirus Talks

  • We agree!!!
  Oct 21, 2020 2:38 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Pelosi, Mnuchin Make Final Push on Coronavirus Talks

  • Do the politicians care for the health of the people or for the votes they can receive?
  Oct 21, 2020 2:31 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Pelosi, Mnuchin Make Final Push on Coronavirus Talks

  • This is another political game in elections time...
  Oct 21, 2020 2:28 PM
  2 Likes

• • Posted In WSJ News Exclusive | Intel Nears Deal to Sell NAND Memory Unit to SK Hynix

  • We have to hope that the South Koreans don't bargain the Intel technology with the Chinese, Frequently, China's companies use other Asians to learn about American tech players.
  Oct 20, 2020 11:55 PM
  2 Likes

• • Posted In Microsoft Teams With Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Push Cloud Battle With Amazon Into Orbit

  • Bill Gates started Microsoft developing software for personal computers and domestic users. However, his vision about the great software projects was in his mind from the first moment.
  Oct 20, 2020 11:42 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Why Social Media Is So Good at Polarizing Us

  • The polarization of social media is a great business for Facebook. And the others follow to the "King".
  Oct 19, 2020 9:33 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Why Social Media Is So Good at Polarizing Us

  • You have an interesting point.
  Oct 19, 2020 8:52 PM
  3 Likes

• • Posted In Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak

  • Tech is great and cruel simultaneously. Normally, the cycles in the top of the hills are short and the falls are dramatic.
  Oct 18, 2020 1:53 PM
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• • Posted In Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak

  • Tech is in the top of all the industries, despite a lot of heroes of other times are declining: IBM, HP, Xerox...
  Oct 18, 2020 1:48 PM
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• • Posted In This Japanese Engineer Created the Robots That Make Your Cars

  • Behind the great achievements of the industry and the technology always there are brilliant brains like the engineer Seiuemon Inaba. Thank you Mr. Inaba!
  Oct 18, 2020 12:51 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Twitter’s Partisan Censors

  • The manipulation of the information in the social media is a good business. See, how Facebook grew in the last few years with this business. (In the current times, ethical principles are not important for the social media kings)
  Oct 16, 2020 2:38 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Opinion | Twitter’s Partisan Censors

  • A social media without bias actions!
  Oct 16, 2020 2:36 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In iPhone 12 vs. iPhone 11 vs. iPhone XR vs. iPhone SE: Comparing Apple’s Full Lineup

  • I agree with your observation too.
  Oct 14, 2020 12:32 AM
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• • Posted In iPhone 12 vs. iPhone 11 vs. iPhone XR vs. iPhone SE: Comparing Apple’s Full Lineup

  • 5G is in the beginning and probably, where you live, you don't have the tower. In this case, you are paying for a 5G that you don't have...
  Oct 13, 2020 11:35 PM
  2 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | Joe Biden on What Voters ‘Deserve’

  • Maybe, you are right...
  Oct 12, 2020 2:56 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | Joe Biden on What Voters ‘Deserve’

  • Good point if we only care for the flag.
  Oct 12, 2020 2:03 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In IBM Split Doesn’t Guarantee a Speedy Recovery, History Suggests

  • The divorce of the information-technology infrastructure looks like the last blood of the "real IBM" that is spilling out before the death of this pioneer of the technology
  Oct 12, 2020 5:46 AM
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• • Posted In IBM Split Doesn’t Guarantee a Speedy Recovery, History Suggests

  • The majority of the CEOs of important technology companies are Asians in this moment.
  Oct 11, 2020 9:08 PM
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• • Posted In IBM Split Doesn’t Guarantee a Speedy Recovery, History Suggests

  • How many times IBM needs redefine its business model to return to the success? Really, the current situation is very dramatic.
  Oct 11, 2020 9:07 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Kamala Harris’s American Example

  • Yes, I said with other words, that "still is"
  Oct 7, 2020 5:54 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Kamala Harris’s American Example

  • Till now, America is a great land for immigrants with profession, cultural platform and strong initiative go ahead.
  Oct 7, 2020 5:30 PM
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• • Posted In Larry Ellison’s TikTok Bid Puts Oracle Chairman Back in the Spotlight

  • At this moment, Larry will no change...
  Oct 6, 2020 3:11 PM
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• • Posted In Larry Ellison’s TikTok Bid Puts Oracle Chairman Back in the Spotlight

  • You  are right. However, Oracle is a survivor of a lot of crazy transactions, because the really owner of the company is Ellison. And Larry has a lot of money. From the other side, when one of his managers doesn't work like he wants, he fires the manager.
  Oct 6, 2020 3:07 PM
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• • Posted In Trump Remains Hospitalized as Doctors Offer Mixed Signals on President’s Health

  • Mixed news don't help to go ahead from this moment in a positive way.
  Oct 5, 2020 3:27 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In U.S. Stock Futures Tick Higher on Muted Signs of Ebbing Political Risk

  • It is look like the investors market doesn't care for the health of the President.
  Oct 5, 2020 2:09 PM
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• • Posted In U.S. Stock Futures Tick Higher on Muted Signs of Ebbing Political Risk

  • The market is ignoring the big uncertainty of the current days.
  Oct 5, 2020 2:06 PM
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• • Posted In West Coast Wildfires Devastate Heart of California’s Wine Industry

  • A series of important technology companies started to move their big installations from California to other states since more than 10 years.
  Oct 3, 2020 8:37 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Huawei Turning Point

  • Every day, more Europeans are leaving the globalist model because they learned it doesn't work.
  Oct 3, 2020 8:28 PM
  8 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | A Huawei Turning Point

  • We - the Western world - are at war with China directly or indirectly.
  Oct 3, 2020 8:17 PM
  8 Likes

• • Posted In Opinion | A Huawei Turning Point

  • Germany has to take the risk.
  Oct 3, 2020 8:13 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | A Huawei Turning Point

  • Germany must ban Huawei right now. Later it will be late.
  Oct 3, 2020 8:12 PM
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• • Posted In West Coast Wildfires Devastate Heart of California’s Wine Industry

  • If the wildfires continue, the population will have to migrate to other places.
  Oct 1, 2020 9:41 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In West Coast Wildfires Devastate Heart of California’s Wine Industry

  • You probably are right.
  Oct 1, 2020 9:39 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In West Coast Wildfires Devastate Heart of California’s Wine Industry

  • This is a bad news, but it has a good side.
  Oct 1, 2020 9:38 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In West Coast Wildfires Devastate Heart of California’s Wine Industry

  • Now, every year, California is hit by the wildfires. If the inferno continues, a rich state will be totally devastated.
  Oct 1, 2020 9:28 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Does Joe Biden Really Want to Be President?

  • I agree that the progressive wing generates a lot of noise, but for second time, they didn't have the power to put Bernie as the Democratic nominee.
  Sep 29, 2020 4:27 AM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Does Joe Biden Really Want to Be President?

  • Interesting point of view...
  Sep 29, 2020 4:13 AM
  4 Likes

• • Posted In Trump Administration to Ban WeChat Use in U.S. After Sunday Night

  • This initiative looks like a big step into the US-China tech war
  Sep 19, 2020 7:49 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm

  • Jensen Huang is a visionary of the new era of the artificial intelligence linked with the silicon chips.
  Sep 19, 2020 6:22 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | Get Ready for an Election Crisis

  • The elections panorama looks chaotic.
  Sep 18, 2020 5:13 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Trump Administration to Ban WeChat Use in U.S. After Sunday Night

  • The White House increases pressure in TikTok owners forcing the sale of the application for US users.
  Sep 18, 2020 5:05 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In America’s Offices Sit Half-Empty Six Months Into the Covid-19 Pandemic

  • Journalists put the "negative" side first.
  Sep 17, 2020 1:15 PM
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• • Posted In Opinion | The Real Cost of Biden’s Plans

  • President Obama promised something and in the real facts, he walked to the opposite way.
  Sep 17, 2020 12:54 PM
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• • Posted In WSJ News Exclusive | Grand Jury Subpoenas Sent to John Bolton’s Publisher and Agent

  • Thanks for your opinion. It is good that we agree.
  Sep 15, 2020 7:58 PM
  0 Likes

• • Posted In WSJ News Exclusive | Grand Jury Subpoenas Sent to John Bolton’s Publisher and Agent

  • John Bolton likes the provocations and he pretends to earn money from them.
  Sep 15, 2020 7:50 PM
  1 Like

• • Posted In Biden Appeals to Florida Latinos as Polls Show Trump Gaining

  • There are three kinds of Cubans in America: 1) Anti-Castro 2) Cubans who say they love America, but they continue acting as communists 2) Communists who continue thinking and acting like communists.
  Sep 15, 2020 7:17 PM
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• • Posted In Biden Appeals to Florida Latinos as Polls Show Trump Gaining

  • About the Central Americans who came here in the last years for social problems in their countries, they are creating social problems in the US and they don't have interest to integrate with the Americans in the right way. They only are interested to receive all the kind of benefits.
  Sep 15, 2020 6:00 PM
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• • Posted In Biden Appeals to Florida Latinos as Polls Show Trump Gaining

  • We have to realize that a lot of Cubans who have born in the Castro era and they were educated in the Communist ideology, they continue thinking like  communists living in the US.
  Sep 15, 2020 5:55 PM
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• • Posted In Biden Appeals to Florida Latinos as Polls Show Trump Gaining

  • The expression "Latinos" in the politics arena is very ambiguous. There are different groups with different interests: 1) Cubans anti-Castro are Republicans 2) Cubans who came to US for food and benefits but they are communists in their mentality, they are Democrats. 3) Puerto Ricans are divided too. 4) Central Americans who came to US looking for social benefits, they are Democrats. 5) South Americans are also divided. Venezuelan who hate Maduro are Republicans. The others who looks for "social benefits" are Democrats. 6) And a lot of other citizens are total indifferent with the politics of US.
  Sep 15, 2020 5:48 PM
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• • Posted In Oracle Deal With TikTok to Undergo U.S. National Security Review

  • Mr. Ellison is an ambitious guy with the resolution to achieve the goals he has.
  Sep 15, 2020 12:50 AM
  1 Like

WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on October 27, 2020 - Microsoft didn't suffer COVID-19

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

#WR: Do you know that Microsoft didn’t suffer #COVID19?  @WSJ posted that #Microsoft achieved strong earnings fueled by “pandemic-era demand for #Cloud computing services and #videogaming." In the last quarter, its sales rose 12% to $37.2 billion, w/ a net profit of $13.9 billion

 

 

Domingo Trassens

@trassens

 

#WR: Microsoft didn't suffer COVID19. According to @WSJ in last quarter, the revenue from Azure, the #Microsoft's massive #cloud service increased 48% from the year-ago period. Sales from commercial cloud, a broader metric of its cloud business, reached $15.2 billion. #COVID19

 

 

SOURCES: Microsoft newsroom, The Wall Street Journal