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(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...
Tue. 11/02 – Apple Sacrifices iPad Production To Protect The iPhone
Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stableco...
Mon. 11/01 – How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Et Al?
How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Twitter and the like? $10B or more? The chip shortage is hitting Apple at the Worst Time. But ne...
Fri. 10/29 – Signs Of A Meta Watch
Tons of meta commentary about the Meta move by Facebook, including the appearance of a Meta smartwatch. Small bit of earnings fallout for Apple and Am...
Thu. 10/28 – Facebook’s New Name Is Meta
Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device....
Wed. 10/27 – Is Robinhood The Company Doge Made?
Microsoft and Google continued to report earnings that boggle the mind. Meanwhile, Robinhood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, y...
Tue. 10/26 – Facebook Pivots To Youth
Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target ‘da yoots.’ Adobe adds support for NFTs. Amazon is coming after Clubhouse, jo...
Mon. 10/25 – Everybody Dumps (Reports) On Facebook
Running down the headlines from all of those Facebook stories that we were promised would land this week. PayPal backs away from Pinterest, Tesla roll...
(TWTR SPC) Metaverse? Name Change? Facebook Wither?
F*** it! We did it live! Chris and me and @Kantrowitz around my kitchen table! Are we in for the biggest week of Facebook's life? Check out Big Techno...
Fri. 10/22 – Is Apple’s ATT Bite As Bad As People Feared After All?
Snap’s earnings suggest Apple’s ATT bite is having an impact, and what might that mean for others like Facebook? Google lowers Play Store fees and pil...
Thu. 10/21 – PayPal To Buy Pinterest? Why?
PayPal wants to buy Pinterest and everybody is trying to figure out why. Devs, you can now begin testing Android apps on Windows 11. Gamers, you can n...
Wed. 10/20 – Facebook To Change Its Name?
Dropping the “the” from The Facebook isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Dropping Facebook as a name entirely. All the news from today’s Samsung event....
Tue. 10/19 – The Google Pixel Event And The Pixel 6
All the headlines from Google’s latest Pixel event with the new Pixel 6. Some odds and sods from yesterday’s Apple event. Maybe Facebook’s crypto proj...
Mon. 10/18 – Apple’s MacBook Event
All the headlines from Apple’s event today. The Bitcoin future’s ETF is real, as of tomorrow. Apple’s privacy changes have indeed upended the mobile a...
(TWTR SPC) What IS The Metaverse?
What is the Metaverse? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is Mark Zuckerberg talking SO MUCH about it lately? And come to think of it, what is Face...
Fri. 10/15 – Will The SEC Allow You To Trade The (Bitcoin) Future?
The SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs trade a soon as next week. Google finally does away with pagination on the mobile web. Why are...
Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China
Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smart...
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