Marc Sparrow
@marcsparrow.bsky.social
Based in beautiful Béarn after Hong Kong, London and Freiburg. Run Eureka Box, an international comms agency for b2b tech firms. Here to discuss sounds, thoughts and experiences.
London drops out of top 20 IPO venues after raising a paltry 248 million this year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
London Drops Out of Top 20 IPO Markets After Falling Behind Mexico
London has slipped out of the world’s top 20 initial public offering markets as the third quarter ends, overtaken by Mexico and Singapore in a fresh blow to its standing as a global finance hub.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
London drops out of top 20 IPO venues after raising a paltry 248 million this year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Revolut thinking they have a chance of expanding into China is the height of delusion…
July 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Revolut thinking they have a chance of expanding into China is the height of delusion…
Nice bit of moat protection. As if his European business is not touting its credentials in European data (+ AI) sovereignty to businesses in the region behind closed doors. You’d think that SAP must be winding down Joule… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
SAP CEO Says Europe Needs More Applied AI, Not Another Stargate
Christian Klein, the chief executive officer of Europe’s most valuable company, said that Europe doesn’t require a flurry of more data centers to compete in artificial intelligence, rejecting a narrat...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Nice bit of moat protection. As if his European business is not touting its credentials in European data (+ AI) sovereignty to businesses in the region behind closed doors. You’d think that SAP must be winding down Joule… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Uproot your family and move across the country… And then hope your role survives the next round of AI-inspired job cuts. Amazon as ever doing some solid work on its employer brand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Orders Employees to Relocate to Seattle and Other Hubs
Amazon.com Inc. is ordering some corporate employees to move closer to their managers and teams, roiling a workforce already worried about job cuts and warnings from the top that artificial intelligen...
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June 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Uproot your family and move across the country… And then hope your role survives the next round of AI-inspired job cuts. Amazon as ever doing some solid work on its employer brand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why the views of the anti-renewables crowd should be ridiculed for the idiocy they are. Any country unable to keep pace will be poorer and dependent on unreliable suppliers with unpredictable pricing that always has the ability to tank the economy. Better to tackle remaining challenges than carp.
They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables.
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
May 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Why the views of the anti-renewables crowd should be ridiculed for the idiocy they are. Any country unable to keep pace will be poorer and dependent on unreliable suppliers with unpredictable pricing that always has the ability to tank the economy. Better to tackle remaining challenges than carp.
Oof! @bloomberg.com tech newsletter referring to Japanese company, Samsung. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Solo VC Effort Offers Individual Touch to Early Startup Founders
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow talks with Josh Browder, founder a...
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May 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Oof! @bloomberg.com tech newsletter referring to Japanese company, Samsung. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Accidentally click on the Gemini button in Gmail. It can’t even work out that I’d respond in British rather than American English, let alone providing anything useful.
April 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Accidentally click on the Gemini button in Gmail. It can’t even work out that I’d respond in British rather than American English, let alone providing anything useful.
More good news for the world. China unveils barge bridges to facilitate amphibious military landing. I wonder what it is that so bothers them about a prosperous, technologically advanced, Mandarin speaking nation of 24m people able to choose their own leaders? www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04...
China’s new bridge-forming barges offer new options for Taiwan invasion
The ships can be linked up one behind the other to form a long, relocatable pier that extends from deeper waters nearly a kilometer out at sea onto a beach.
www.japantimes.co.jp
April 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
More good news for the world. China unveils barge bridges to facilitate amphibious military landing. I wonder what it is that so bothers them about a prosperous, technologically advanced, Mandarin speaking nation of 24m people able to choose their own leaders? www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04...
The Economist nails it (doesn't happen often these days).
April 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Economist nails it (doesn't happen often these days).
Reposted by Marc Sparrow
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
Courtesy of @artefr.bsky.social I watched the Cure in Hyde Park and Black Sabbath's previous final gig. Tonight it's Abba. Perfect.
March 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Courtesy of @artefr.bsky.social I watched the Cure in Hyde Park and Black Sabbath's previous final gig. Tonight it's Abba. Perfect.
No use cases for blockchain-powered finance apparently - apart from being faster, cheaper, simpler than current international finance infrastructure. www.ft.com/content/d033...
Banks and fintechs join ‘stablecoin gold rush’
Bank of America and Stripe target market for payments in cryptocurrencies
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March 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
No use cases for blockchain-powered finance apparently - apart from being faster, cheaper, simpler than current international finance infrastructure. www.ft.com/content/d033...
Can a slump build momentum? Doesn't it just get slumpier?
March 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Can a slump build momentum? Doesn't it just get slumpier?
Ouch! Unlucky Celtic.
February 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ouch! Unlucky Celtic.
“You’re buying insurance, you’re not buying advertising”. Non-free speech across multiple dimensions. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Musk’s Clout Complicates Choice for Digital Advertisers Weighing X
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at why advertiser...
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February 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“You’re buying insurance, you’re not buying advertising”. Non-free speech across multiple dimensions. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
A welcome blast of spring.
February 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A welcome blast of spring.
Real Madrid in the Champions League. Always fun.
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Real Madrid in the Champions League. Always fun.
Google talking about agentic AI and yet my own Gmail can’t even work out that an email sent by me from Google Calendar to meeting participants is not spam… Not sure I fancy letting agents loose in my business just yet.
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Google talking about agentic AI and yet my own Gmail can’t even work out that an email sent by me from Google Calendar to meeting participants is not spam… Not sure I fancy letting agents loose in my business just yet.
No Microsoft, I do not want to download your Teams app. Whenever I download Microsoft anything it tries to take over default settings (search, links from emails, calls, etc) even though I do nothing to authorise this and actively seek to prevent it.
February 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
No Microsoft, I do not want to download your Teams app. Whenever I download Microsoft anything it tries to take over default settings (search, links from emails, calls, etc) even though I do nothing to authorise this and actively seek to prevent it.
Served this wonder by the algorithm after watching some other artists. youtu.be/pn0IRI5wdzI?...
Kate Bush - Christmas Special 1979 (Private Remaster)
YouTube video by zararity
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February 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Served this wonder by the algorithm after watching some other artists. youtu.be/pn0IRI5wdzI?...
Violation of intellectual property goes meta. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Violation of intellectual property goes meta. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
WPP offers most talented staff to smaller, more modern rivals - while slashing disposable income and free time for those who remain. www.ft.com/content/72e7...
WPP becomes latest global employer to tighten working from home rules
Advertising group says its 110,000 staff must be in office at least four days a week
www.ft.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
WPP offers most talented staff to smaller, more modern rivals - while slashing disposable income and free time for those who remain. www.ft.com/content/72e7...
Drunkenly cooking tartiflette. Can't wait but the odour resembles the kit bag when it's your turn to wash.
December 27, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Drunkenly cooking tartiflette. Can't wait but the odour resembles the kit bag when it's your turn to wash.
The soft power of weather science… www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Bloomberg so good at fresh, interesting takes on global power moves.
Trump’s Return Gives China a Shot at Being the Next Weather Superpower
The conservative Project 2025 roadmap calls for slashing NOAA funding at a time when China is investing heavily in climate research.
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December 11, 2024 at 12:26 PM
The soft power of weather science… www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Bloomberg so good at fresh, interesting takes on global power moves.