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Brian McCullough
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Wed. 05/11 – Google I/O 2022
All the headlines from Google’s I/O keynote this afternoon. The stablecoin fiasco has gotten rapidly worse. More carnage in tech stocks. Is Apple shif...
Tue. 05/10 – UST Stablecoin Not So Stable
A major algorithmic stablecoin has lost its peg to the dollar. More concerns of a slowdown as Tiger Global has racked up massive paper losses. Match G...
Mon. 05/09 – Everything Is Down
Everything is down, not just tech stocks, but now crypto too. More signs of belt tightening and possible hiring freezes, this time from Uber. Twitter...
Fri. 05/06 – Give Us The Passwordless Future Already
With Apple, Google and Microsoft all signed up to offer FIDO Alliance technology, are we about to hear about some big passwordless tech at all the dev...
Thu. 05/05 – Elon To Be Twitter CEO?
Elon gets some friends to join his Twitter deal. And does he expect to be Twitter CEO soon? A Google acquisition shows their metaverse aspirations. So...
Wed. 05/04 – Uber Back To Pre-Covid Levels
Uber is seeing rider usage return to pre-Covid levels. New, better flash storage. Twitter tests the ability to only tweet to certain circles. An inter...
Tue. 05/03 – No More Podcasting On Facebook
What do you know? Facebook got bored of something and left the market in a bit of a mess. The SEC seems to be staffing up to get serious about crypto....
Mon. 05/02 – EU Says Apple’s NFC Chips Don’t Play Well With Others
The expected EU hammer is coming down on Apple. Yuga Labs’ latest project didn’t bring down Ethereum, but made it hella expensive. Bots DID bring down...
(TWTR SPC) How The Web Evolved - The Reunion Of The Social Web TV Crew (Fixed)
(The audio has been fixed in this version)How was the web won and lost? If you had to do Web2.0 over again, what would you do differently? What is the...
Fri. 04/29 – Snap’s Pixy Drone Is A Flying Camera
Snap’s Pixy, is a new sort of done/camera hybrid. We wrap up tech earnings week with Apple and Amazon. I continue to wonder if the one click checkout...
Thu. 04/28 – Twitter’s Last Ever Earnings Report?
Twitter reports earnings, for maybe the last time, publicly. Meta’s earnings weren’t THAT bad but that’s mostly because the set the table for it. Appl...
Wed. 04/27 – Earnings Quick Hits
Quick summation of Alphabet and Microsoft earnings. DJI is trying to prevent its drones from being used in the Ukraine war. Google has released tools...
Tue. 04/26 – Twitter, Now Under New Management
You did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it. You know what that’s referring to, of course. Fidelity lets you allocate some of your 401(k) to bitc...
Mon. 04/25 – Wherein I Race Elon On Breaking News
By the time you hear these words, Elon Musk might already own Twitter. A big Java vulnerability. All of Mark Gurman’s expectations for the iPhone 14....
(Portfolio Profile) OpenAxis
Founder Alex Damianou tells us about OpenAxis, which tells stories with data. If a picture tells a thousand words, how many does a chart tell?&nb...
(TWTR SPC) - WTF Netflix? W/ @loudmouthjulia
The great Julia Alexander (@loudmouthjulia) joins us to talk about Netflix's big earnings bomb, CNN+ biting the big one, and the state of the streamin...
Fri. 04/22 – The Demise Of CNN+ Makes Quibi Look Good
CNN+ only made it, what, 1/8th of a Quibi? There’s blood on the streaming wars dance floor. a16z’s new crypto research lab makes me feel like I have t...
Thu. 04/21 – Ok. Funding Actually Secured?
Ok. Funding actually secured, Elon? For real this time? A look at Tesla’s good earnings and monster margins. Unions are coming for big tech, it seems....
Wed. 04/20 – Netflix Earnings Bomb; Ads To The Rescue?
Netflix shares crater after earnings, and the company might be turning to ad-supported streaming to eke out some growth. Coinbase’s NFT marketplace is...
Tue. 04/19 – Scraping The Web’s Still Legal
Courts have reaffirmed the right to scrape the public facing web. We have some hints about how the Twitter edit button might work. Updates on the whol...
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