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Data is the new oil XIV – Undisclosed intangible assets

All the companies are in the graph now, but there was still something bothering me. The old industries have a lot of tangible assets (oil rigs, refineries, factories, inventories) and also some intangible ones (goodwill, software licences – sometimes also … Continue reading

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Data is the new oil XII – Microsoft: more green roofs

We are nearly at the end of the series and this time we have another runner-up. Yet in the 3D-graph Microsoft looks much smaller than the oil-majors. It grew like the other tech companies did, but not as fast as … Continue reading

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Data is the new oil XI – Alphabet: a pattern emerges

Finally another tech-giant, Alphabet. And the pattern in the tiltle? Well, the old industry is rather stable, but these new tech-companies seem to come from “nowhere” and are suddenly there – next to the oil-majors and manufacturers. Back in 2008, … Continue reading

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Data is the new oil X – Oil again…

It will be a short update this time. After a couple of tech-related companies we are back at the oil. A “small” oil major this time as Chevron has a revenue of “only” 159 billion in 2018. It’s not little … Continue reading

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Data is the new oil IX – Samsung. Boring? Not quite!

The next company in our series is a bit of a combination between the old economy and the new tech era. Samsung is a South-Korean chaebol, nowadays well-known for its mobile phones and other consumer-electronics. Yet all these devices are … Continue reading

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Data is the new oil VIII – Amazon, even more extreme

Last time we finally saw a tech-giant entering the 3D-graph. It was Apple, behaving very differently from the others as over the last decade it came from nowhere (well in comparison to the traditional set of giants like oil-majors that … Continue reading

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Automotive 10 – Nissan added, 3D-graph completed

Just before the end of 2018 the all companies we promised are visible in the 3D-graph for automotive! I will try and be concise about the proces. Nissan BladeGlider (Photo by FranckinJapan on Pixabay) Nissan has very neat annual reports, … Continue reading

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Automotive 8 – Renault

The previous post would have been the last one in the automotive series, but in the intermezzo we already promised to add Renault and Nissan, because of all the news about Carlos Ghosn. Renault has really nice annual reports, although … Continue reading

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Automotive 6 – Volkswagen Group

Time for a shorter post! Volkswagen (also know as Volkswagen AG) publishes annoying annual reports! The pdfs opened at a very small, unreadable size every time. Then on trying to copy numbers I found out different values went into my … Continue reading

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