Our June podcast ponders the sweet and sour environment surrounding companies dealing with China with a special focus on Nvidia and three hotel giants including Hilton; details the sour apples infecting the Apple tree; probes TikTok's travails; examines ongoing issues of censorship, content moderation, and media control; and dives deep on DeepSeek troubles in Korea and the challenges other tech companies are facing there despite Washington's unhappiness.

The April edition of the Musings about Multinational Corporations podcast examines the political and economic challenges facing companies like Apple and Nvidia as they are flagellated about, flirt with, and flee China; watches the continuing saga of TikTok whose battle for survival in the US of A never seems to end; blasts to the United Kingdom to cover the stealing of a Chinese steel plant and other Chinese investment travails there; and discusses countries continuing regulation of tech companies in the face of US threats of retaliation.

This episode probes the ever mobile Apple planes, with only one having a Cook aboard; discusses Walmart and Costco's discovery that low priced goods may be politically costly; and notes the release of jailed consultancy employees and China's efforts to court foreign executives while concurrently making implicitly demands they support its cause. It overviews European efforts to manage high-tech giants to promote fair competition, Japan and Korea's emulations, and US government pressures on Europe and its Asian allies to back off. It closes with coverage of a cyberattack on X from mysterious corners!

This episode continues our coverage of DeepSeek; looks at the stuck and ticking clocks facing TikTok; discusses the Apple plane's successful landing in Indonesia; offers intelligence on Apple intelligence in China; charts out the Google maps Gulf of something imbroglio; and offers a mix of material on topics like Telegram, Australian content moderation, and Rumble's rumble with Brazil.

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 cover the ongoing battle between governments and tech companies on multiple fronts.

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 Union (what's new?) and its fluctuating relationship with Russia.

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 TikTok ban and troubles for TikTok in Romania and beyond; Indonesia vs. the smartphone companies; and Japan vs. the Amazons. Yet more awesome coverage is our gift to you for the holidays!

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 European Unions rocky relations with tech companies.

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...; and discuss the travails of Telegram.

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, X and Brazil.  Lastly, it examines some recent news pertaining to TikTok.