Musings about Multinational Corporations

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In this episode, we cover Apple's supply chain relocation; Tesla's charge up in China; Japan's search for Google (found it); Google gags (not the funny kind) in India; the Middle East muddle for google and others; and the complexities of content moderation for X in Australia and others elsewhere

This episode covers censorship and corporate compliance (capitulation?) in China, censorship and content moderation elsewhere, and the regulation of tech big and small, primarily in Europe. We also touch upon recent LINE-Naver shenanigans and corporations caught in the crossfire of the US-China...

Episode 4 of Season 1 looks at the softening of SOFTEE (aka Microsoft) around the world; the liberation, rerouting, and pummeling of Tesla; activist Australia and activists about Australian regulation; and the European Commission's latest burst of energy (at least until August) to regulate tech.

This episode covers the recent travails of those doing business in or with China as well as the struggles of Chinese companies venturing abroad.  It also addresses the ever present theme of content moderation.  It supplies, too, juicy content about X and the EU, X and Venezuela, and, most of all...

In this episode, we update you on the LINE-Naver Saga; delve into Harley Davidson's bumpy ride in Japan and chills & spills regarding 7 & I; cover the challenges of Google and others in Korea and the challenges facing Korean chip companies; do a post about X and Brazil...and Australia...;...

Episode 7 scans the bombs raining on TikTok; surveys the challenges facing multinational corporations in China and those dumping on them for dealing with China; describes problems for tech companies in Korea and Vietnam; examines Indonesia's smarting policy towards smartphones; and reviews the Eu...

This episode examines Volkswagen's exit from Xinjiang and the loosening of Xinjiang threads for Uniqlo; Chinese pressures against Nvidia; Apple's continued courting of China, Intel's offerings to the Middle Kingdom, and the scorning of those riding Meta's Llama; the long and short of the US TikTo...

This episode, the first of 2025, delves into TikTok's challenges, above all in the US of A; Google's pressures chamber in East Asia countries like Japan and Korea and Russia; Australia's path breaking ban on social media usage for children; and Meta's challenges in Australia and the European Unio...

In this episode, we discuss the TikTok's ticking clock and the effort, by some, to rescue it; track the Apple plane waiting to unload iPhone 16s in Indonesia; dive deep into the growing control and regulation of DeepSeek; examine EU and US measures affecting fast-retailer Shein and also Temu; and...