Alex Webb
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EinR @nttventurecap. @StanfordGSB grad. 13 years with Bloomberg News, Opinion, TV, Radio and Originals in the U.S., Germany and U.K.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined September 2009
Excited to see what @elliot_nell_ & @kevinsekniqi are building here. Real, tangible hardware to fuel the energy transition and, eventually, extra-terrestrial existence... https://t.co/nkIvHRdKpF
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Some news of a personal nature: I've joined @nttventurecap as executive-in-residence. Really excited to take all I've learned in 13 years covering @business and @technology at @Bloomberg and in my year at @StanfordGSB to identify and partner with category-defining startups.
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🧵How many software engineers secretly work 2+ jobs? My research group at Stanford has access to private code repos covering 100K+ engineers at ~1,000 companies: ~0.5% of the world’s developers. Our data shows that 4.1% of software engineers are working 2+ jobs.
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At the end of the academic year, I’m hoping I can apply some of what I’ve learned in over a decade as a financial journalist at the coalface of the industries I’ve been covering. If you’re in this neck of the woods and have time for a coffee, do hit me up! ENDS/
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As for what’s next: I’ve headed back to the West Coast to become a Sloan Fellow at @StanfordGSB. It’s a full-time, one-year, accelerated masters of science in management, and I’m blown away by my amazing classmates. 9/
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And finally to @bbgoriginals, where, under the auspices of @abarden, we made some videos of which I’m really proud. This quick turn after the failed OpenAI coup is an example of one that came together nicely. 8/
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Or when I made use of my undergraduate modern languages degree for this pretentious column looking at Facebook from the perspective of Goethe. Thanks @ThereseRaphael1 for editing this into coherence. 7/
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Like the subject of “The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” he can’t control his magic.
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After I moved back to London with @opinion, my deeply reported feature into the economic prospects of @GBNEWS.
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A surge in populism has made Britain ripe for a new brand of TV journalism. But replicating the U.S. network’s model is hard enough to make Brexit look easy.
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Breaking the news that Apple planned to put an electrocardiogram in the Watch. Not visible in the web version, but I believe @mhbergen had an assist credit on this one. 5/
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Apple Inc. is developing an advanced heart-monitoring feature for future versions of its smartwatch, part of a broader push by the company to turn what was once a luxury fashion accessory into a...
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After moving out west to San Francisco, this deep dive with the legendary @markgurman on the first time that @Apple tamped back its carmaking plans. Editing from, if I recall correctly, @alistairmbarr. 4/
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Apple Inc. has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people...
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A few story highlights: This scoop with the great @DavidWelch47, which was the first time anyone had shown that the faked test results in the dieselgate scandal were administered from Germany. The story took billions off VW’s market cap. 3/
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Volkswagen AG executives in Germany controlled the key aspects of emissions tests whose results the carmaker now admits were faked, according to three people familiar with the company’s U.S. operat...
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It was an incredibly rewarding and formative stint, working with generous and impressive people. @cullenang & Chad Thomas took a risk on a graduate fresh out of journalism school and have, I’m sure, long since lived to regret it. 🤪 2/
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Something in the way of personal news: after 13 years in Frankfurt, Munich, San Francisco and London, I decided in June to leave the only job I’ve ever had and venture out into the world beyond Bloomberg. 1/
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That's an interesting wrinkle because Apple, in recent years, has managed to grow revenue even as unit sales slowed. That was at least in part because it was convincing people to buy more expensive handsets. Let's see if that has been affected.
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Though it does look like it was driven by a lot of discounting. As much as $180 off the iPhone 15 Pro Max. https://t.co/t4xbdxzMxT
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Apple Inc.’s resellers in China are slashing the price of iPhone 15 models by as much as $180, signaling an unusually prolonged slump in demand.
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Reports of Apple's death in China were greatly exaggerated.
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Apple Inc.’s iPhone staged a rebound in China last month with shipments rising 52% amid a flurry of discounts from retail partners.
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This is kinda wild. Google paid Apple $20bn in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari. That’s just over a quarter of Apple’s $78bn in services revenue that year, and presumably an even greater proportion of profit. https://t.co/LBi5iZVtCd
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Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust...
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Temenos Sinks Most in 21 Years on Hindenburg Short Report https://t.co/CmI8VsyRz3
@allegracatelli @lisapham #Switzerland
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Temenos AG plunged by nearly a third, slashing its market value by $2.1 billion, after Hindenburg Research took a short position and suggested serious flaws in the books of the Swiss provider of...
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