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Apple loves to market the new MacBook Neo at $599, a number engineered to sound disruptive and "for everyone." But let's have a more thorough look at the numbers: 📍 The US gets a shiny $599 sticker. Sounds great, until you realize that's before tax. A buyer in New York actually pays $652 after sales tax. Still reasonable? Now let's fly across the Atlantic: 📍 🇨🇭 Switzerland: CHF 579 (~$731) | +22% | VAT 8.1% Europe's lowest VAT, most stable currency. Still $132 more than t

In a recent conversation, Jensen Huang clearly states to Lex Fridman's show that: 📢 "If I have a choice between a new college graduate with no clue what AI is and one that is expert in using AI, I would hire the one who's expert in using AI." This statement is hardly controversial, it reflects the direction the market is heading and a reasonable point: knowing the tools of the era matters. From the other side, let’s be cautious not to generalize it into something broader tha

💡Διερευνώ τη σημασία της τρέχουσας σύγκρουσης με το Ιράν, τονίζοντας την πολυπλοκότητά της ως έναν πολυδιάστατο πόλεμο που περιλαμβάνει τεχνολογία αιχμής, βαθιά ριζωμένες ιστορικές εντάσεις και παγκόσμιες μετατοπίσεις ισχύος. 💡Ενώ η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, ο κυβερνοπόλεμος και η προηγμένη επιτήρηση επαναπροσδιορίζουν τα σύγχρονα πεδία μαχών, το ανθρώπινο στοιχείο και οι γεωπολιτικοί υπολογισμοί παραμένουν καθοριστικοί. 💡Το αποτέλεσμα της σύγκρουσης θα επηρεάσει τις παγκόσμιες σ

An impressive result after analyzing the top 100 most-viewed videos on YouTube, published after January 2023. In Graypes GmbH we recently...

On January 25, 2024, in a desperate attempt to restore confidence among clients and in the markets, Alex Chriss, who assumed the role of...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets of text, allowing them to understand and generate natural language,...

The current composition of the Magnificent 7, the famous group of high-performing stocks, might undergo a significant shift. 📌 TSLA and...

A peculiar (but not so unexpected) outcome popped up while evaluating the business model of an energy-related SaaS company. Denmark is...

Google has the best business model ever invented in the history of capitalism. Still, sooner or later, competition becomes challenging....

This is what Ariel Cohen, CEO & co-founder of Navan (ex. TripActions) implies in his video, related to his fundraising experience during...

The latest Q4-2022 KPMG quarterly report on Venture Pulse depicts the clear decline of the overall venture financing, from its pick of...

WEF at Davos, could not be considered this January of 2023, a joyful place to relax, enjoy fondue, hot chocolate, and your glamourous...

Just before starting this new week, after my previous one, visiting the WEF-23 at Davos, I had a quick look at BIT, ETH trades and they...

You just expect the exact opposite of what the politicians foresee! Being a regular visitor of the WEF, I have many reasons to enjoy...

It's late 2008. The global financial crisis (code name: Subprime Mortgage). The Airbnb team is desperate. They have already launched...

FTX's collapse, Credit Suisse's rotting: financial disasters rooted in totally incompetent leadership! Still, responsible is also the...

"Take the money and run." Woody Allen B O O M (...and this is not Putin's nukes) Exactly one year ago, on November 2021, some prominent...

"In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity." Albert Einstein This 2022 global energy crisis is a "Chronicle of a Death...

"If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Founder of Ford Motor...

In our digital era there is a plethora of software tools, assisting innovators creating even for free, their SaaS prototype or SaaS product.

Economic downturns are hard. Now is the time to think differently. Now is the time to review your inner force on creating your own business.

"Love is in the Air" is a 1977 disco song by Australian singer John Paul Young. It became a worldwide hit in 1978, peaking at No. 3 on...

During the last 6 months, we in Graypes GmbH received a stormy wave of businesses (both investors and innovators) proposing to pay their...

On February 21, 2022, three (!) days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Bundeskartellamt, Germany's national competition regulatory...

Russia started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014....

Lately, Russia, under the "leadership" of Vladimir Putin, is planning to invade Ukraine. This "travesty", especially in the midst of the...

Because of the "disappointing" 2021-Q4 fiscal report? Because they "lost" +10B in Meta investment? Beacuse TikTok is eating their lunch?...

@ 2.07MM USD, is the prize for the AO-22 trophy, a new all-time high! + Novak didn't visit Australia as a tourist. Who would think to...

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, has been found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud, concluding a high-profile trial that...

According to a recent (June 8th, 2021) report from ProPublica, sourced by a vast cache of IRS information, billionaires like Jeff Bezos,...

68% of the businesses registered in Graypes, from January 2020 as of today, March 2021, under the technology sector of Medicine and...

"Where did you find it good to name the rope in the house of the hanged?" (original: "¿Dónde hallastes vos ser bueno el nombrar la soga...

1. Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 2. What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems,...

Enjoy in a few minutes the history of the internet. AOL, Yahoo, Google. (and Amazon consistently in the top-10 list) What's next?

During a recent presentation, I shared the following list of the top disruptive industry sectors for the coming years. Real Estate is our...

Whoever is the "winner" of the US 2020 elections, the political message is very clear: young and competent people in the US, prefer...

REMOTE working should not be a simulation of what it was like to work in the office Great discussion at the beginning of this pandemic,...

On September 13, 2019, the investment bank, cut its price target for Apple’s stock (AAPL) to $165 a share from $187. The stock price...

Is there a Ponzi Scheme at the VC ecosystem in Silicon Valley? Chamath Palihapitiya, Sri Lanka born, Canadian-American venture...

Almost three months away, in the time of piling mountains of toilet paper and overloading shelves with spaghetti, working from home has...

With Zoom P/E surpassing 1500, the modern "Tulip mania" is now. (There are many more "Tulips" our there, including a car manufacturer,...

This COVID19 crisis is not the world’s first financial recession and it won’t be the last. Read the top 6 survival actions for your startup.