Musings about Multinational Corporations

Apple Blossoms and Soft exits; Communicating about Qualcomm; Semiconductor designs; Nexperia Seizure; Social media on and Under Fire; Gnashing Google53:15 PM


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This episode begins with a piece on Apple’s continued courting of Beijing and its harvest and the moves by others to reduce their roots in the Middle Kingdom.  It then explores China’s anti-trust investigation of Qualcomm. The third content segment covers pressures on Nvidia from China and the United States, highlighting its defense of deeper dealings with China.  Afterwards, it treats the Nexperia seizure saga, which is giving the Dutch, car companies, Nexperia Netherlands, Nexperia China, and China’s Wingtech fits. Our penultimate piece focuses on the moves by various countries around the globe to regulate social media companies such as Facebook and TikTok and moderate content.  We conclude by examining the stresses Korea, the United Kingdom, and OpenAI are raising for Google.

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Musings about Multinational CorporationsBy Jean-Marc F. Blanchard