As WeWork continues its stumble to the public markets, some prognosticators see this moment as something more significant: that a WeWork belly-flop portends the end of the unicorn era in Silicon Valley.
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What to make of WeWork, the fashionable, unprofitable, metaphysically inscrutable US$47-billion office-rental company that intends to “elevate the world’s consciousness” and potentially go public this year?
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Given the US-China trade war, one might think that news of Apple contravening Chinese labour laws would provide just the ammunition that Beijing needs to crack down on the tech giant.
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The theory is that consumers with older smartphones are holding out for what are expected to be the first iPhones that support 5G, a new, faster wireless standard. Not so fast.
When manufacturers are unveiling cars that can’t be driven for years to come, and the very people able to afford them are over the hype anyway, it raises the question: have we reached peak supercar?