Techmeme Ride Home

Techmeme Ride Home

Brian McCullough

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(TWTR SPC) - Fake Review Economies And How Social Networks Win

Saoud Kalifah of FakeSpot.com joins us to discuss what I guess we could call, the fake review economy. Chris made a compelling case for...

Jul 23, 2022 92m

Fri. 07/22 – Not Great, Bob! Snap And Twitter Edition

Well, things weren’t so rosy with Twitter earnings, and downright abysmal over at Snap. The Feds bring the first ever case for insider trading in the...

Jul 22, 2022 16m

Thu. 07/21 – Did Tesla Trigger The Crypto Crash?

Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms a...

Jul 21, 2022 16m

Wed. 07/20 – Netflix Earnings Not SO Bad

Netflix reported earnings that weren’t as bad as even they had been telegraphing. So that’s something. The court case is already going against how Elo...

Jul 20, 2022 18m

Tue. 07/19 – Amazon Sues Facebook (Group Admins)

Amazon is stepping up its war against bogus product reviews. Netflix is testing more crackdowns on password sharing. Slack is raising prices. ESPN+ is...

Jul 19, 2022 16m

Mon. 07/18 – It’s Vibe Shifts All The Way Down

Everything we cover is in a full vibe shift of… pulling back. Coinbase sent some eyebrows up over the weekend, but insolvency is off the table. Right?...

Jul 18, 2022 18m

(Portfolio Profile) ArcX

Ride Home Fund's latest investment: the smart ring/device controller ArcX! More at https://arcx.fit/Invest in ArcX via the Ride Home Fund he...

Jul 16, 2022 27m

Fri. 07/15 – The “Vibe Shift” At Amazon

Now the haircuts have come for Stripe, but they took theirs voluntarily. Who’s responsible for the big hole on Celsius’ balance sheet? Twitter wants t...

Jul 15, 2022 18m

Thu. 07/14 – Is TikTok A Threat To Google Search?

Celsius files for bankruptcy. Tesla loses a key Autopilot exec. Netflix chooses Microsoft for it’s ads partnership. Could TikTok be a long-term proble...

Jul 14, 2022 15m

Wed. 07/13 – Twitter Takes The Gloves Off

Twitter officially sues Elon Musk and by the sound of things, has decided to go to the mattresses. Has Apple officially cut ties with Jony Ive? Here c...

Jul 13, 2022 16m

Tue. 07/12 – What If (And Hear Me Out) We Actually Owned The Things We Buy?

Liquidators say they can't find the Three Arrows Capital founders. The FTC will crack down on data-anonymization claims. Another smart home company de...

Jul 12, 2022 16m

Mon. 07/11 – What Happens Now With Elon And Twitter.

The famous stock market player Bernard Baruch once said, paraphrasing: Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I alw...

Jul 11, 2022 21m

(IHP) The eBay Story Part 2

Part 2 of the eBay story from the Internet History podcast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://ar...

Jul 8, 2022 40m

Thu. 07/07 – Apple Lockdown Mode

Apple has a new lockdown mode to triage a whole range of cyberattacks. Also, Mark Gurman has some details on that new, expected, “rugged” Apple Watch....

Jul 7, 2022 15m

Wed. 07/06 – How To Beat The Quantum Rap

Will regulators wreck the great gaming consolidation? Can the US bully it’s way to blocking China’s chip development? Are Dilithium crystals the key t...

Jul 6, 2022 17m

Tue. 07/05 – What Did I Miss?

The Crypto Crash goes ever onward. Klarna is going on a realty tv show called, Now That’s what I Call A Haircut! The hackers have come for the Chinese...

Jul 5, 2022 17m

(IHP) The eBay Story Part 1

From my original Internet History Podcast, the first of my two episodes outlining the story of eBay, in-depth, as I make the strong case that it was m...

Jul 4, 2022 43m

(TWTR SPC) Aprés Spotify w/ Anchor Founder @mignano

Time for some deep analysis of the podcast industry. Is Spotify gonna take over all of audio? Is the blockchain useful for podcasting? What is the gre...

Jul 2, 2022 87m

Google Talk (Dec. 2018)

While I'm away briefly for vacation, here's a talk I gave at Google in December 2018 around the time my book came out. Just a condensed dose of my ent...

Jul 1, 2022 60m

Thu. 06/30 – If Sam Bankman-Fried Is Afraid To Give You Money…

One good thing about the crypto crash is you can get affordable graphics cards again. Layoffs come to the Metaverse. Samsung is producing the first 3n...

Jun 30, 2022 18m

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