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Shira Ovide

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ARTICLES BY SHIRA OVIDE

Google has been through the antitrust investigations merry-go-round for the better part of the last decade. (Reuters)

Google, Facebook can’t count on consumers saving them

3 min read . 10 Sep 2019

Apple’s dual role as app distributor and app owner may not have the same regulatory interest, but some business partners are unhappy.

Opinion | Apple’s new services come with built-in conflicts

3 min read . 22 Mar 2019

Opinion | We still don’t know whether Uber is a real business

4 min read . 16 Aug 2018

Facebook said it was ending a feature that had permitted someone to enter another person’s phone number or email address into a Facebook search to find a friend or colleague. Photo: Reuters

Facebook’s present is as scary as its checkered past

3 min read . 05 Apr 2018

Schools don’t necessarily have big budgets, but tech companies have turned them into a battleground to build loyalty among future technology buyers. Photo: AFP

Apple’s iPad needs schools more than they need it

2 min read . 27 Mar 2018

Apple has said its services revenue would double by 2020 from what at the time was about $25 billion in annual sales. Photo: Reuters

Apple investors should look at Spotify and shudder

3 min read . 07 Mar 2018

Apple’s strategy is the kind of product and price segmentation that is typical for relatively mature companies. Photo: Reuters

Apple can turn three solid iPhones into a blockbuster

3 min read . 01 Mar 2018

Apple executives are perennially rosy, at least until it becomes glaringly obvious that something is going awry. Photo: Reuters

How does Apple define its success? Any way it wants

3 min read . 21 Feb 2018

Amazon paranoia is not new. Some companies have long avoided selling their products on Amazon or using the company’s payments tools. Photo: Reuters

Worried about Amazon, companies run into Google’s arms

2 min read . 16 Feb 2018

Facebook ‘like’ button was introduced in 2009. Photo: AFP

Time for Facebook to unfriend iconic thumbs-up symbol

2 min read . 19 Jan 2018

Huawei is the top-selling smartphone company in China and the third biggest in the world. Above, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Technologies Co., during the company’s keynote event at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Photo: Bloomberg

How Huawei can break Apple and Samsung’s smartphone grip

3 min read . 10 Jan 2018

Travis Kalanick needs to justify why he deserves to stay on Uber’s board despite the repeated revelations of wrongdoing from his time at the helm. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Travis Kalanick needs to explain role in Uber’s data breach

2 min read . 22 Nov 2017

Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. turned in its third earnings report as a public company, and for the third time its shares tanked when both revenue and user growth were disappointing. Photo: Reuters

Snapchat and investors are having a crisis of confidence

3 min read . 08 Nov 2017

Apple is selling as many iPhone X models as it can make, but it’s unclear what ultimate consumer interest will be in the $1,000-and-up phone once the company is able to work through production problems on a novel design with some tricky parts. Photo: AFP

With iPhone X, will it be 2015 again for Apple?

3 min read . 06 Nov 2017

Apple optimists say enthusiasm for the iPhone X will push large numbers of people with older iPhones to trade up to the new models. Photo: Reuters

Apple earnings are a Rorschach test with an X factor

3 min read . 03 Nov 2017

Investors know Netflix’s strategy is to spend more now, in order to control its destiny and win fans around the world. Photo: Reuters

Netflix’s big streaming ambitions don’t come cheap

3 min read . 17 Oct 2017

Many analysts have said people who are most likely to buy new iPhones will wait until November or later, when the iPhone X model will go on sale. Photo: Reuters (Reuters)

Tepid demand for latest iPhone a concern for Apple

3 min read . 13 Oct 2017

Fees from Amazon Prime and other subscription options amounted to $6.4 billion last year, more than double the 2014 figure. Photo: AFP (AFP)

Amazon needs to prove video isn’t a prime distraction

4 min read . 11 Oct 2017

Amazon said on Wednesday that it would sell some of its Echo voice-activated speakers in India for the first time, with a new (English language) voice with local pronunciations. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint (Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Amazon hasn’t seized the world, but it’s working on it

2 min read . 06 Oct 2017

Apple has shifted course again lately in its years-long effort to become a destination for television shows and movies. Apple’s ultimate intention isn’t clear, but the current tactic is to buy lavish entertainment programming. Photo: Reuters (Reuters)

Apple, Wall Street and Hollywood are lost in translation

3 min read . 04 Oct 2017

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