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It is the symptom of a saturated sector

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You are waiting for an important order and you have verified that it was in delivery, but hours pass and no one calls. You go to see the tracking of the package once again and you find the dreaded “package not delivered due to absentee recipient” even though you have not left home nor have you received any calls. What is happening? A common problem. It has happened to all of us at some point and it is very annoying. Not delivering a package on time is understandable to a certain extent, but lying and saying you weren’t home really turns us on. Just do a search on social networks like reddit either x to find users very angry about this situation. Consumer organizations have also detected it: “It is a problem that worries us. It is quite common for them to not deliver a package and say that you have not picked up the phone or have not opened the door for them,” Manuel Vivas, OCU press officer, tells us. In the last two months they have received 14 complaints about this issue and Correos Express is the company that users most often mention in their complaints, but it is not the only one. A search on their website returns similar results in the case of Mail, SEUR, M.R.W., GLS and many more. Online commerce. It is the main cause of the increase in package deliveries. There was a boom during the pandemic, but since then the numbers have not stopped growing. According to CNMC dataIn the first quarter of the year alone, the online commerce business has grown by 18.2% compared to the previous year, exceeding a turnover of 25.7 billion euros and more than 474 million transactions. Packages. Many of these purchases translate into home deliveries that have caused the volume of parcel shipments to reach record figures. According to the CNMC Annual Report of the Postal Sector 2024in 2024, 1,216.6 million packages were sent, most of them less than 2kg. Almost half of the packages managed by large online platforms were delivered within 24 hours. According to the DBK observatory reportthe billing of the courier and parcel sector grew by 5% in 2024, exceeding 10,000 million in revenue. The delivery men. The growth of the sector has caused a boom in delivery job offers. However, conditions are not always good. According to the ETT Synergiethe average salary of a delivery driver ranges between 1,200 and 1,750 euros gross per month. This is if they have a contract and work for a large company, many other delivery drivers They are forced to become autonomous and use your own vehicle. In April of this year, El Confidencial published a report where several delivery people claimed to charge between 0.75 and 1.50 euros per package delivered. Other delivery drivers denounce endless days and more than 100 daily deliveries to get a decent salary. There is a lot of pressure to deliver the maximum number of packages per day and there are penalties if they fail. The trap. In a report from El Faro De Vigo Several delivery drivers talk about the “trap” of saying that you were absent. Many times delivery drivers resort to marking an incident to save travel, especially those who receive commission per delivery. “If you have an urgent delivery, but due to the area you are in, you can take away several deliveriesyou put “incidence”, for example, and deliver it later,” confesses a delivery man. Courier companies that receive a complaint about this issue have an easy time knowing whether or not the delivery person passed through the area, since the apps they use have a geolocator. The penalties for mismanagement of a delivery can be up to 40 euros, which for many of these delivery drivers means losing half or more of what they earn in a day. Claim. If we are marked as absent, in most cases we have to go to the branch of the delivery company to pick up the package. It is possible to claim the costs involved in going to the warehouse where the package was left, especially if we live far away and do not have a vehicle. The OCU receives many of these complaints. “We collect the complaint and transfer it to the company, we do mediation work (…) The client has the right to complain, but for most people it is not worth claiming the 10 euros for the taxi because it involves more effort than going to pick up the package,” Manuel Vivas tells us. In addition, it must be taken into account that many times the person making the delivery simply acts as an intermediary. According to Manuel, “The customer does not have a contractual relationship with the delivery company (…) the claim must be addressed to the company where the purchase was made.” That is, if we have made the purchase on Amazon, even if it was Seur who made the “non-delivery”, we must complain to Amazon. Image | Kampus Production on Pexels In Xataka | In China they believe they have solved the saturation of delivery people: robots traveling by subway to deliver packages

The “Rider Law” aspired to improve the delivery of Spain. In the sector there are those who believe it has served the opposite

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Bit (Or very little) today has to do with today’s delivery sector, before the government approved the Legislative change that forced that Thousands of dealers stop being autonomous to swell the template of the platforms with which they operate. The known as ‘Rider Law’ He has marked the last years of the sector and has left a deep mark on both the service and in the hospitality. So deep, in fact, that in the middle of 2025 there are still voices that They question their effectiveness And they warn that it is harming Riders, websites, restaurants and customers. A “lose-lose ‘by quadruple”, They regret. What happened? That despite the over four years that have elapsed since its approval in Spain, The impact that he has had the measure at the community level and that his guidelines have been pending little by little Among companies, the ‘Rider Law’ still does not get rid of the controversy. A quick search arrives on Google to find news more or less recent than They question their effectsbut perhaps who has summarized its impact on the sector is Alejandro Hermo, CEO of the Hamburgueserías chain Goiko. Recently the manager, a voice with A certain weight In the guild, He exhibited on LinkedIn The blow that (in his opinion) is advising him the legislative change: “Delivery has been very complicated for a few months, impacting customers and restaurants.” What exactly has he said? More or less, that any past time was better. “We have gone from having a delivery system that worked as a clock, giving good service to customers and restaurants, to have a rigid, expensive and inefficient system that makes it almost impossible to cover with enough riders the peak hours, causing the restaurants to appear without service available or/and that the orders are late (if they arrive),” he laments in Your post The Goiko CEO. Is there more? Yes. Hermo assume that adapting to “such a drastic model” will require a certain “time”, but is also convinced that the service will never recover its “previous level.” “What is happening after the forced change of a model of autonomous Riders to 100% hired Riders is a ‘Lose-Lose’ by quadruple,” insists the manager before exposing why, in his opinion, the law harms both the distributors and the platforms, the restaurants and the clients themselves. Hermo warns that, when reconverting in wage earners, the first (the Riders) have seen how they diminished their income and the freedom to self -manage. Moreover, the manager is convinced that the change has “hindered” that they can access the most occasional the most occasional riders, those who only accepted orders to complete their economy, such as students. As for platforms such as Glovo or Justeat, Hermo warns that the increase in operational costs has subtracted flexibility to cover the ‘peak hours’. How does restaurants affect? In 2023, during An interview With the EFE agency, the businessman already warned that although the ‘Rider Law’ focuses mainly on platforms and hoteliers are only “a secondary actor”, in the long run they would end up being affected. Now confirm it. “Restaurants lose business and profitability,” summarizes its publication of LinkedIn, in which it slides that the legislative change has resulted for them in a less flexible and more expensive delivery service. “Thinking about our sector, we cannot afford at this time another torpedo in the flotation line of the restoration,” he remarks. The consequences for customers are from their obvious point of view: a less efficient delivery. “The service worsens because there are fewer restaurants available, it takes longer and reaches a worse condition. And it will eventually be more expensive per order to pay the model change party.” What does it propose? That platforms, distributors and administration “feel and be heard” to find a consensual exit. “The solution is not white or black, there must be intermediate points that approach the demands of both parties and serve as inspiration for other countries.” For Hermo the Delivery is only One more example of the new business model that do not have to be guided by the inherited guidelines of the twentieth century. “With their pros and cons, but they are less flexible than today is demanded.” Is it the only one to complain? No. And that’s why his reflection is even more interesting. Beyond the debate that accompanied the approval and entry into force of the ‘Rider Law’, in 2021, the discussion around the pros and cons of the measure have been maintained over the last four years. In August The newspaper asked To the spokeswoman for the RidersxDerechos Trade Union Platform, Núria Soto, if the collective is better today at work level than a five years. His answer was clear: “Yes, although it depends on who you ask.” “Riders have more rights, but also less income. And those without work permission who distributed renting accounts have been excluded from regularizations and have lost their source of income,” Soto warned. There are deeders that are even more blunt And they regret that the ‘Rider Law’ has sunk them even more in the “precariousness” that promised to free them. They have even been published academic studies that confirm how legislative change has had some unwanted effects, such as worsening of salaries or destruction of employment. Why that complaint now? The law is 2021, but it makes sense that the sector continues to pronounce today. After all, a good part of the Riders They were still not hired until not so long. This year however Glovo gave A key step by deciding that all their distributors become salaried. The decision was made after a few complex years, marked by large fines and The scrutiny of the authorities, and not without suspicion. “We will hire 20,000 workers, but they will gain less than as self -employed,” He warned in February Your CEO. According to The newspaperin August almost 70% of the packages that were distributed in Spain they did it through a delivery man with … Read more

The Neoclouds promised to democratize the AI. Right now are the most fragile and indebted link in the entire sector

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Coreweave, Lambda Labs, Crusoe and Nebius They represent the most booming and also more fragile link in the AI ​​value chain: Neoclouds. These companies have raised tens of billions in capital and debt to build Data centers full of NVIDIA GPUSbut its business model rests on an increasingly questionable premise: that the demand for computing capacity to continue to grow exponentially. Why is it important. The problem is not just that these companies lose money. Is that its financial structure depends on a vicious circle: They raise debt to buy GPUS. They use those GPUS as a guarantee for more debt. And the money they enter comes mostly from the same companies that sell them the chips and lend them the money. The model. The Neoclouds They came promising GPU infrastructure in months, no years, already prices up to 66% cheaper than AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. The proposal sounded well: companies needed GPUS and Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure and Company) did not supply. The market responded with enthusiasm: Coreweave went from billing 16 million dollars in 2022 to 5,350 million in the last year. Nebius (which has exploded in the stock market and whose germ is Yandex) grew from 5 million quarterly to 105 million. The segment Neocloud As a whole, 82% per year has grown in the last four years. The problem of the single client. Coreweave generated 60% of its 2024 revenues by renting capacity to Microsoft for Openai. Only Microsoft. Nvidia represents another 15%. If you eliminate a The magnificent seven already openai of the accounts of the main Neocloudsthere are hardly 1,000 million dollars of combined income, As calculated by analyst Ed Zitron. Lambda Labs has half of his income at Amazon and Microsoft, plus 1.5 billion in a contract with Nvidia. Almost all Nebius’s growth projection comes from A 19,000 million agreement with Microsoft. There is no diversified market of business clients. There are a handful of technological giants using these suppliers as an exhaust valve or as a vehicle to move money without inflating their own capital expenses Aka Capex. The money trail. Coreweave owes 25,000 million with annual revenues of 5,350 million. Its debt-active ratio reaches 85.4%. It is like two times your annual salary. And unlike the property that supports a mortgage, the GPUS depreciate quickly. Nebius He has just closed a 4,200 million round to build the infrastructure that allows you to fulfill your contract with Microsoft. Lambda Labs and Crusoe have raised hundreds of millions in risk and debt capital. The model is always the same: You get a large contract. You use that contract as a guarantee to raise debt. Purchases Gpus to Nvidia. Rrena more data centers. Repeat. The problem arises when the Ancla client decides that he no longer needs so much capacity, or when you cannot build the infrastructure quick enough. Between the lines. Nvidia has invested directly into several Neoclouds And it is also its largest supplier and, in many cases, its largest client. Coreweave signed a 6,300 million agreement with Nvidia a few days ago For the manufacturer to buy any capacity that cannot be sold to other customers until 2032. In the end we see an elaborate mechanism of Circular financing: Nvidia needs to sell GPUS to maintain its growth. The Neoclouds They need to buy GPUS to fulfill their contracts. The Hyperscalers They need additional capacity but do not want to inflate their capex. And the Private Equity You need to place tens of billions in something that seems the future. In figures. Building a Data Center Capacity Gigavatio costs between 32,500 and 50,000 million dollars. Oracle and Crusoe took 2.5 years to complete a gigavatio for Openai. Nebius has promised to build multiple gigawatts in increasingly unrealistic terms. The alarm signal. Coreweave has reported important operating losses in its last quarter despite explosive growth in income. Nebius plans to reach 1,100 million in annual recurring revenues by the end of 2025, almost exclusively driven by the contract with Microsoft. What happens if Microsoft decides that you can build your own cheaper capacity? Or if Openai, the final customer of much of that capacity, collapses under the weight of their own losses? The decisive moment. The consolidation has already begun. Coreweave has just bought Core Scientific for 9,000 million in shares. Only great will survive, and probably not many. It is a matter of time when the adjustment will arrive. The doubt is how much damage will cause when billions in debt collide against the reality that the real demand for GPU capacity is a fraction of what is assumed. In Xataka | The PC is mutating: the future is filled with AI work stations so you can have your chatgpt at home Outstanding image | Nebius

This is how AI has impacted in the medical sector, analysis of the BYD Seal U DM-I and much more in 1×18 crossover

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We have a new episode of Crossover, 1×18and this time he presents it alone Jaume Lahoz, who has no problem in taking the reins alone. In fact you will see as not only presents, but also has its own section. The central theme of this episode is an interview with a Top guest: Esther Gómez, known in networks such as @mienfermerafavorita. This disseminator and university professor tells us about present and future of AI applied to health. That gives us the opportunity to talk about some promising advances in this area, as is the case of Alphafold or Immunoscore. But we also chatthe long and laid about ethics, privacy and the role of health professionals in the digital age. But we are not there, and in this episode of Crossover we also commented the most prominent technological news of recent days and we have a section specially dedicated to gamers: What are the candidates for Goty in 2025? There is a lot and good (and very good) to what to get hooked. The last section makes Jaume even more protagonist than ever: he presents an analysis of his experience with one of the most popular SUVs of the moment, The Byd Seal U DM-I that too We were able to analyze in Xataka. We hope you enjoy the episode! On YouTube | Crossover

The public sector is an oasis of stability against unemployment. That is why 52% of workers consider opposing

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In Spain, public employment has become a increasingly valued option For millions of people. Precariousness and job instabilitytogether with the problems to which Young people face and greater than 55 To find a job in the private sector, they are causing many people in precarious or unemployment situation to choose to prepare oppositions as a professional alternative. In A stage With 2,789,200 of people in unemployment, it is not surprising that more than half of the active population (about 12 million people) has thought of opposing seeking the security of a employment and stable salary in the public sector. The Public Employment Offer for 2025. The Government has already published the Public Employment Offer (OEP) by 2025, which includes a total of 36,588 places available. These vacancies include positions for state security forces and forces, as well as for the armed forces. Of the total, 27,697 places are new and 8,891 internal promotion. The vast majority of places, 70% (26,889 places), are intended for the General State Administration. In addition, 10% of vacancies (2,610 places) are reserved for people with disabilities, thus expanding opportunities within the public sector. Unemployment as an engine to oppose. Currently, more than 2.7 million people are unemployed in Spain, many of whom face serious difficulties in returning to the labor market in the private sector, either because they are too young and not meet the experience requirements, or for being over 55 years old. According to Report data ‘The weight of the opponent in Spain in 2025’ that the opposition formation portal elaborates every year, 48% of the unemployed between 18 and 55 years are preparing an opposition or intends to do so soon. If those who have already opposed in the past are included in the strip, the percentage amounts to 68%. The quarry of officials. The study reveals that the unemployment figures of the different autonomous communities are inversely proportional to the percentage of the active population that arises or is already preparing an opposition to one of the public employment squares. Thus, Extremadura, with a 16.60% strike According to EPA data Of the first quarter of 2025, it is the one that has prepared the highest percentage of the active population or is preparing an opposition with 48% of its population in order to work. Murcia follows, with a 12.83% unemployment rate, which records 43% of its labor mass with the intention of opposing, drawing in that figure with Castilla y León. At the opposite end, communities with less interest in opposing in relation to the total of its active population is Catalonia (19%), followed by Madrid (21%) that tied with Valencia and the Balearic Islands. How many people are? These percentages, taken to absolute numbers, assumes that 6,779,344 people are preparing to oppose At the moment or have recently opposed presenting themselves to the Latest calls. The data reveal that 9% of the people who are currently opposing a year ago. Of these, 67% had never opposed before. Which implies that the public sector is attracting a greater number of employees who would not have considered developing their career as a public official. 5,386,328 people plan to oppose in the near future, so they could participate in the call for oppositions that have just made public, or will do so for the call of 2026. In total, 52% of the active population, about 12,165,672 people are preparing, they are preparing or intention to prepare an opposition shortly, against 48% that they do not intend to do so. Official, but where? The results of the study slide that people who are opposing today do so To cover a place for the administrative or auxiliary body and for positions in health or education. The results are similar among those who have expressed their intention to oppose in the near future, the most quoted administrative places being. The main difference between those who plan to oppose and who is already doing it, we find in the aspiration of the new opponents for presenting themselves to a postal square, which almost quadruples. In Xataka | How to prepare some oppositions or a doctorate without dying in the attempt: strategies to maintain motivation Image | UNSPLASG (Unseen Studio)

The Chinese solar sector wanted to save itself from overproduction with a pact. Just managed to sink faster

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Despite being a reference country World Cup in renewable energy, China Face a perfect storm In its solar sector: price collapse, red margins and an uncontrolled overproduction. Given this situation, more than 30 solar manufacturers agreed to stop the offer to stabilize the market, imitating the OPEC model. A kind of “Solar Cartel” in the style of oil exporting countries. It hasn’t done very well … Six months later, the result has been a disaster. Far from stabilizing, production has reached historical maximums, the facilities have tripled and losses continue to accumulate. According to Bloombergdifferent executives in the sector have publicly expressed their frustration and accuse their competitors of betraying the collective pact. OPEC style? Some of the big Chinese photovoltaic companies seem to be following the example of OPEC. As He explained Oilprice, the famous oil sign has been adjusting its production to influence global prices. The logic is clear: if the offer is limited, the price drop is contained and war between producers is avoided. Something similar is happening in the solar sector. Longi, Tongwei and Ja Solar have signed a “self -discipline” agreement under the Chinese association of the photovoltaic industry. The reason? Profitability is falling as panel prices, modules and wafers continue to fall. The pact seeks to set production fees by 2025, depending on the installed capacity and market share of each company. Chronicle of an announced death. Like Santiago Nasar at 5:30, this pact also had an inevitable ending. Unlike the oil market – dominated by state giants – the Chinese solar sector is private, fragmented and fiercely competitive. According to Bloombergthe agreement was not binding or contemplated sanctions. It was nothing more than a declaration of good intentions. And while some expected others to fulfill, many took the opportunity to gain market share producing even more. The result was excess supply, prices in free fall and sunken balances. No rules and every machine. According to Oilpricethe plan included limiting new investments, raising the technical requirements and increasing from 20% to 30% the minimum capital required for new projects. The government also implemented measures to cool the overheated sector. However, instead of containing themselves, companies intensified production so as not to lose relevance. According to data cited by Bloombergsolar facilities tripled in a year, and manufacturers have not closed or reduced operations significantly. The damage has been tangible. Longi Green Energy, one of the leaders of the sector, reported in the third quarter of 2024 a loss of 174 million dollars (1,261 million yuan), its first major fall since 2016. In the words of the company itself, collected by Oilpricelast year marked the first collective loss of the sector in almost a decade. The Chinese government has already hardened the conditions for new investments, and there are voices that ask for a firmer intervention. But the truth is that the “OPEC Solar” has failed loudly. The market remains overflowing, depressed prices and competition more wild than ever. The mirage of coordination. Try to coordinate a privatized and fragmented industry with a voluntary pact has been, as has detailed Bloomberg, an idea “condemned from the beginning.” Far from an orderly cartel, the attempt has exposed the structural weaknesses of the Chinese solar model: brutal efficiency, but without rules or firewalls. China continues to lead the world in installed capacity for renewables. But its solar manufacturing sector now faces a hard truth: in a market without discipline or referees, surviving is more difficult than producing. Image | Grégory Roose (Pixabay) Xataka | China’s energy paradox: an ‘electrostate’ that continues to feed on coal

OpenAI has cut the price of O3 80%. And as a gift to the sector has sent a price war that will destroy margins

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Openai has moved token: the same day as presented O3 pro The price of O3 cut 80 %. It may only be segmentation, but very possibly it is also an advance of the price war that starts when the rivals already touch their performance and internal efficiency allows us to serve Tokens for cents. The new step is like this (prices per million Tokens): ENTRANCE EXIT OpenAi O3 $ 2 (before $ 10) $ 8 (before $ 40) OPENAI O3 PRO $ 20 $ 80 Gemini 2.5 Pro $ 1.25 $ 10 Claude 3.7 Sonnet $ 3 $ 15 Deepseek R.1-0528 $ 0.55 $ 2.19 That price narrowing comes because quality already converges in practice: almost all models “reason” comparable in common tasks, and hardware and inference efficiency improvements (on the side of OpenAi and the rest) reduce the marginal cost of serving each Token. The result is manual: The price becomes the main lever and segmentation appears as a containment dike —How the creation of O3 Pro, designed for customers willing to pay a lot due to low latencies, huge contexts or formal audits. For developers this is fertile land. 2 dollars a million tokens, AI ceases to be a luxury expense and looks like a CDN: Payment for use, without permanence contract. Yes tomorrow Gemini either Deepseek They offer better value for money, change is reasonably simple in infrastructure and Prompts. The blocking effect is transferred to the layer that surrounds the model (tools, data, user experience), not the model itself. At the contrary end of the cost spectrum, Apple has integrated its foundational models directly into operating systems. Any app can be invoked at home, free and without counters from Tokens No invoices at the end of the month: AI becomes as invisible as GPS or camera. It is another function. The play Remember the emergence of WordPress in the early 2000s. At that time, publishing online required or a lot of knowledge or a lot of money to pay someone to have it. WordPress loaded that barrier and democratized the publication. Twenty years later we gave the xataka legend to its creator precisely because of that. And now what? Possibly, an adjustment downward the margins in the base models and a migration of the business towards higher level services: observability, management of the management Fine Tuningprivate data accommodation, vertical agents … exactly what happened with the cloud when the price of the gigabyte sank and the value moved to the management layers. The “magic” of AI is blurred, but its usefulness – now much more affordable – opens the door to a much wider market. Just what Openai needs. In Xataka | O4-mini is much more than another model of AI. It is the Tesla Model 3 of OpenAI Outstanding image | Ilgmyzin in Unspash

The US feared a boycott of its tourism sector. It already has a first calculation and shows a hole of 12.5 billion dollars

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He “Make America Great Again” promises get expensive To the American tourism industry. Fulfilled the first 100 days of Trump’s mandate and after a start of the year marked by the Tariff warthe aggressive immigration policy from Washington and his distancing from historical allies, such as Canada or the EU, US tourism faces turbulence. He last report of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), based in London, predict that distrust From foreign travelers it will cost the country around 12.5 billion dollars. And the figure goes with a message included. “This is a US government attention call”, warns The WTTC. What happened? That the WTTC, a forum that brings together the private tourism industry, has just thrown a jug of cold water at the expectations of the sector in the US. And the reason is very simple: according to the forecasts of its technicians the travel, hotels, restaurants and other businesses that depend on tourism will enter much less dollars out of foreign pockets. To be more precise the WTTC talks about a loss of about $ 12.5 billion in foreign visitors spending, an “amazing sum”, Apostille. Where does that data come from? The organism does not clarify how it has calculated it, but it does contribute some context. According to your data In 2024 international visitors who arrived in the US spent about 181,000 million dollars. If its forecasts are fulfilled, in 2025 the figure will remain in “just under 169,000 million”. It is a forecast that could vary if the circumstances that have motivated that collapse of spending, but a priori leaves two bad readings. The first is an interannual fall of almost 7%. The second is that the US tourism industry moves away from the data it handled in 2019, before the pandemic. He WTTC calculates that during that year foreign visitors generated a revenue flow of about 217.4 billion euros that promoted job creation in the country. “Today that legacy is in danger,” warns the organism in A statement in which he sends a couple of errands to Donald Trump’s executive. Why is it important? For the weight of tourism in the American economy and the threats it faces. The US is one of the main destinations of the world. His trade department estimates that last year he received some 72.4 million of international visitors who contributed to the tourism and travel sector contributing, as a whole, 2.36 billion of dollars to the national economy and generate more than 20 million jobs. The administration itself benefits from this activity via tax revenues. The problem is that the vast majority of that tourist expense (almost 90%) It did not start with visitors from other countries but from the domestic market, of travelers who moved nationwide, within the country. For the WTTC that percentage is somewhat a challenge. “This strong dependence on local tourism masks a serious vulnerability: true growth resides in the international market, and the US is losing its leadership,” They warn. Spain leaves a good example: the flow of foreign tourists moves in record levels while falls The domestic. Is there anything else? Yes. WTTC forecasts contradict those who handled It is not so much The US National Travel and Tourism Office (NTOO), which expected the flow of international visitors to the US to increase 6.5% between 2024 and 2025 to reach 77.1 million. In 2026 he even trusted to reach 85 million, which would exceed the data prior to the pandemic. By 2027 it provided for an expense level of 279,000 million Of dollars, quite above what the WTTC now forecasts for this year. Are all forecasts? No. The study of the WTCC cites data from March of the US Department of Commerce that already reveal a contraction in the flow of international tourists. Specifically, it shows an interannual “prick” of 15% in the British market, of more than 28% in Germany, almost 15% in South Korea and between 24 and 33% in “other key markets”, such as Colombia or Spain. “As expected, the Canadian market is exhausted: reserves in early summer have dropped more than 20% compared to last year,” Add the WTTCwhich ensures that in general the country is receiving fewer visitors from both its neighbors and distant nations, “a clear indicator that the global attractiveness of the United States decreases.” The agency ensures that it is the only destination of the 184 analyzed that faces the 2025 exercise with a downward forecast. And what is the reason? The newspaper The New York Times remember That in 2024 the spending of travel in the US already remained below the values ​​prior to the health crisis, basically due to the strength of the dollar and its influence on the budgets of tourists from other countries. The situation is quite different today. Both in regard to The currency as to the geopolitical context, which explains for the WTTC what is happening to foreign tourism in the United States. “The world’s largest economy and tourism is on a bad way, not due to lack of demand, but action. While other nations extend the red welcome carpet, the US government hangs the ‘closed’ poster, closed ‘, Julia Simpson ditchExecutive Director of the WTTC. “If urgent measures are not taken to restore travelers’ confidence, the US could take several years to return to the expenditure levels of international visitors prior to the pandemic.” Is it something unforeseen? Not quite. The tariff war, Washington’s clash with Denmark, Canada or Mexico and especially arrests In the borders and the confusion with visas It has been affecting the flow of travelers to the United States for some time. In fact there is talk of A boycott that extends beyond tourism, industry and Commerce. The US International Trade Administration already registered in March that the number of European visitors who spent at least one night in the country had fallen 17% With respect to last year. The data could be explained in part for the effect of Holy Week … Read more

We thought that the olive oil sector was so broken that the olivers were losing 270 million euros. Is more than double

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When Jesús Cózar, general secretary of UPA Andalucía, gave a press conference saying That “the olive growers have stopped receiving 270 million euros in the month of March, or what is the same, more than 8 million daily, due to the current situation of ruin prices in origin,” many raised an eyebrow. That’s the milkmaid accounts, they said. Now a team from the University of Jaén, the University of Córdoba and the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training has calculated the alleged imbalance of the oil market and a clear conclusion has arrived: Cózar fell short. Market imbalance? In general terms, we can conceptualize the olive oil market as if it were a huge equilibrium machine: the final price of the oil arises from a balance in which many things intervene; But above all, the total stocks and the expected demand. If there is little oil, as happened in recent years, the price tends to rise until the demand fits the amount there is. If there is a lot of oil, it occurs just the other way around. Well, with that principle in mind, we can evaluate whether the market is unbalanced: that is, if the price is above or below what it should be. That is what they have measured. After weeks and weeks with the fly behind the ear, the Provincial Council of Olive Oil of the Provincial Council of Jaén requested a report on the current market situation. To evaluate the real situation, the UJA/UCO/IFAPA team has used a series of new computer analysis models of imbalances. According to your conclusionsthe price of the AVE in origin should be between 5.55 and 6.14 euros/kg. The fork is due to the fact that some data are still missing and the final production can reach between 1.29 and 1.5 million tons. What does this translate? Basically, the 270 million euros spoken by the Secretary of the Andalusian UPA are an anecdote: what the Spanish olive groves are ceasing to receive are 626 million euros. From October to March, the average price at source in these months has been € 4.49. That is, one euro below the minimum estimated price in the study. What is happening? They don’t even know. A few days ago, Juan Luís Ávila, the head of the Olivar de Coag sector He wondered “What is happening in the market so that prices remain artificially low.” In fact, he is preparing a complaint with the National Markets Commission and the competence to find out. Why is it interesting? Because All this situation (That arrives, remember, at a particularly delicate moment for the olive industry after years of crisis and hoping that this year would be resolved) is very complicated: it is still clear that, Despite the weight of Spain in the sectormarket mechanisms are easily alterable. And not even in contexts Where we have the “pan for the mango”there are useful instruments to have it controlled (or even know that everything is working correctly). Image | FERI TASOS In Xataka | In the middle of the largest commercial chaos, olive oil seems immune thanks to a factor: consumption in Spain

They begin by dominating a sector and then wanting to dominate them all

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Mark Zuckerberg already dominated social networks, so in 2013 Facebook tried to conquer our mobiles. Launched Facebook Home As a android pitcher, and increasing an agreement with HTC so that this firm would launch its HTC First With that pre -installed interface. That It was a failure. The fault was mostly on Facebook Home, which after a few hours on Google Play achieved a doubtful milestone: that almost 50% of those who described it They put a star of five possible. The pitcher was not quite bad for intensive users of the social network, but it was terrible for everything else. The firm had already tried to raise its entry into the HTC mobiles. He did it in 2011 with a dedicated button that surely nobody remembers and that probably condemned The HTC Chacha and HTC sauce But both in them and two years later it was clear that this was not the way. Facebook abandoned that ambition – which too He infected Amazon– And he focused his efforts in other areas. He wanted to be “Todista”and it didn’t go well. It is not the only one who wanted to dominate everything in the technological field. It is something that great technological ones have accustomed us. Microsoft is a good example: after dominating the PC and the office environment tried to sign up for trends such as those raised by the iPod (The Zune went wrong), The search engine (Bing has achieved grow slightlybut not too much) and mobile phones (what a shame, Windows Phone). He wanted to be Todista, but failed. And let’s not forget that Google, which dominates in searches and is part of the iOS-Android duopoly launching its own social network. It was just as evil (or worse) as Facebook about the mobile: Google+ is unfortunately, One of the great failures in its history. Even Apple wanted to get (supposedly) in cars and ended canceling the Project Titan. Here it is surprising that Apple failed to get into that field and a much smaller company like Xiaomi advanced it on the right (to every tablet) with the Spectacular Xiaomi Su7by the way. The Chinese manufacturer is in fact a small case of success of “Todismo”, and in fact perhaps it would be to reflect it with a face change. Even Amazon wanted to get his own mobile. It came out fatal. The last to launch that search For “all” is OpenAiwhich already has a really popular product (Chatgpt) with which he is trying to conquer other markets. The first, the searches, with Chatgpt Searchbut now they even chase Your own social network and even Your own browser “If they can’t get Get with Chrome-. It is a legitimate ambition, above all, and, as in the rest of the cases, reasonable. When you already have a successful product, use it as a lever to conquer new land and that all your ecosystem features is a logical option. They tell Apple and the iPhone. But even for them, that it works in certain cases does not mean that it works, much less always or that it does it especially well. Apple Music and Apple TV+ have undoubtedly contributed to strengthening the company’s ecosystem, but these services They are not winning In its segments. Apple does not even need something like that, because they are serving as another element of their offer, and that is already a triumph for them. However, again and again we find that this philosophy of “everyone” never just went well. And that does not confirm our well -known saying, which Silicon Valley leaders should take into account. Who covers a lot, Little squeeze. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | Silicon Valley has changed to his prophets. The messianic CEO is back

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