China VIE trouble for BABA?
That didn’t take long. Over the past few months I have been writing (also here and here) about Alibaba (Ticker: BABA). I mentioned one of the key risks with buying BABA […]
Category Archives: Mobile Payments
Alibaba and Alipay
Alibaba has been doing well in the market since I last published on them. The stock has hit my ‘price target’, and their first results went well. If I were […]
Launching “Coverage” of Alibaba
Over the next few days I will lay out some of my thoughts on Alibaba. I have been reading through their S-1 filings since they became available and a few […]
New Financial Models: Alibaba’s Micro Loan Business
Yesterday, I wrote about a Marc Andreesen interview/Tweetstorm that called for disruption of financial products through better technology. One of the examples he gave was the use of big data tools […]
Turning to China – The Conglomeratization of US Internet Companies
There has been a ton of coverage on the Facebook/WhatsApp deal. I have read only a small portion of it, but I would classify much of the reaction as stunned silence. […]
How much is a social gaming user worth? King Digital files for an IPO
King Digital filed to go public this morning. For people who enjoy this sort of thing (raise my hand) this F-1 has been eagerly anticipated for a while. King Digital (ticker […]
Mobile Back-End comes to an End
A few months back I wrote about Facebook’s acquisition of Parse. Parse provided a “Mobile Back-End as a Service” (MBaS), which is an ungainly acronym for what is essentially a cloud-based […]
A few thoughts on mobile apps
I have been thinking about how mobile apps make money. In my post on Friday, I linked to a post from web greybeard Tim Bray who lamented that no one […]