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Tue. 11/30 – Meta Might Do The Giphy Deal Anyway
Tue. 11/30 – Meta Might Do The Giphy Deal Anyway The UK quashes the Giphy acquisition, but is it actually dead? Maybe not. Was Cyber Monday a bit of a...
Mon. 11/29 – Jack Dorsey To Leave Twitter
Jack Dorsey is reportedly about to be a one company CEO if he steps down from Twitter. The acquisition of Giphy is on life support. Folks remember Mic...
(TWTR SPC) That Feeling When You Almost Buy The Constitution
The legendary tech analyst and general deep-thinker @benedictevans comes on to discuss this essay about the state of the Metaverse right now. Then, se...
Tue. 11/23 – How To Automate Your(self out of a?) Job
Italy has fined Amazon and Apple for alleged collusion. Tile taps out by getting acquired. Niantic is an interesting metaverse raise. Walmart is testi...
Mon. 11/22 – Adele Says: Spotify, No Shuffling!
When Adele says jump, Spotify apparently says how high? Is Apple Watch slipping in market share? All the crypto miners who fled China have landed in R...
Fri. 11/19 – ConstitutionDAO Lost The Auction For The Constitution.
ConstitutionDAO lost the auction for the Constitution. But it was really about the friends we made along the way, right? More Apple Car rumors. Xbox a...
Thu. 11/18 – So… Who Actually “Takes Delivery” Of The Constitution?
Paytm has a rough IPO. Nvidia has another in a long line of crushed earnings reports. Grammarly is an interesting raise. Twitter wants to take the pul...
Wed. 11/17 – Apple Will Let You Do At-Home iPhone Repairs, Yourself
Hell freezes slightly over. Apple is gonna let you repair your own devices, at home, yourself. The Staples Center goes crypto. Meta wants to bring tou...
Tue. 11/16 – The War Between The Furries And The NFTs
Twitter has followed through on its promise to decentralize and play nice with 3rd party developers. Will the Nvidia/ARM acquisition actually happen?...
Mon. 11/15 – Why Apple Buying Google Ads Might Be Weird
Some app developers say Apple is buying Google ads to cut App Store work-arounds off at the pass. Huawei thinks it has an end run around US sanctions....
(TWTR SPC) How To Build A Metaverse
Coming at the Metaverse from a different angle. If you're a dev or even just an enthusiast, how, from a technological perspective, will the Metaverse...
Fri. 11/12 – MoviePass Is Coming Back
Beware a watering hole, zero day attack that affected macOS. Spotify is getting into the audiobook game. MoviePass looks like it might be coming back...
Thu. 11/11 – Do Gamers Not Like Crypto?
Discord floats the idea of incorporating crypto, but backs down after a vicious backlash. Apple wants to manage IT for small and medium businesses. Yo...
Wed. 11/10 – Big Tech Smacked Down In Court
Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No...
Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits
Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes...
Mon. 11/08 – McAfee To Go Private
McAfee is taken private. The recently passed Infrastructure Bill complicates the tax picture for crypto. Also, playing NFT games could seriously compl...
(TWTR SPC) Where's The Money In The #CreatorEconomy?
Poking some holes in the Metaverse hype and also examining the financial realities of the Creator Economy. Simon Owen's Media Newsletter Zealous.app T...
Fri. 11/05 – Meta To Open Metaverse Retail Stores?
Is Meta going to open actual physical retail stores to try to sell folks on the promise of the Metaverse? More tangible signs Apple’s silicon is leavi...
Thu. 11/04 – Instagram Can Post To Twitter Again
Instagram is playing nice with Twitter all of the sudden. But Meta has some new creator tools that try once again to shiv the App Stores. That South K...
Wed. 11/03 – Meta And Zillow Shut It Down
Facebook shuts down its decade-old face scanning and photo tagging feature. Zillow shuts down its house flipping business entirely. Netflix’s foray in...
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