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Brian McCullough
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(TWTR SPACE) The Coinbase Moment For Crypto
Here was our Twitter Space from this week. We ended up talking all about Coinbase, helped by some great analysis from Romeen Sheth, who I think you’ll...
Fri. 04/09 – Amazon Wins The Union Battle
The counting is finally happening, and not to be all Nate Silver, but it’s looking fairly certain that Amazon won its big union battle. Apple and Epic...
Thu. 04/08 – Now The Chip Shortage Has Come For Apple?
If the chip shortage is now biting even Apple, things are getting real, y’all. Twitter apparently took a run at buying Clubhouse. Facebook has a new C...
Wed. 04/07 – TLDR: Coinbase Is A Helluva Business
Coinbase has revealed the number behind their business, and they are brain exploding emoji. A big Patreon raise shows the moneybags are serious about...
Tue. 04/06 – Clubhouse Turns On The Money Spigot Quickly
Clubhouse isn’t messing around when it comes to flipping the monetization switch. TikTok translation might make that platform even more global. Yahoo...
Mon. 04/05 – SCOTUS Rules: APIs Not Copyrightable
The Supreme Court has ruled on APIs in a way that should make most developers happy. Though, the punted on the President blocking people on Twitter. L...
(Bonus) Friday 04.02 Twitter Space
We didn’t go as long as last time because after about 45 minutes, somehow no one could hear me, even though I was the space commissar, or whatever the...
Fri. 04/02 – Coinbase Going Public With A Confident Swagger
Coinbase is going public and sharing its numbers ahead of time, which is rare and probably a sign of confidence. The App Store has started rejecting a...
Thu. 04/01 – Microsoft’s Pentagon Deal Validates The AR Industry
Microsoft’s big HoloLens deal with the Pentagon is maybe the big bang for the augmented reality industry. Amazon says their folks can come back to wor...
Wed. 03/31 – Everything Old Is New Again In The News Feed
Facebook has announced News Feed changes to bring chronology back. LinkedIn is working on a Clubhouse rival and I think that makes total sense. Apple...
Tue. 03/30 – Spotify To Spin Up Clubhouse Competitor
It’s actually a nutso butso news day. Spotify is launching a Clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon. Big updates to...
Mon. 03/29 – Ok, Will Digital Vaccine Passports Work?
New York, Japan, China and the EU are all gonna try out digital vaccine passports. Visa is gonna try out a stablecoin to settle transactions. The offi...
(Bonus) Monday 03.22 Clubhouse Room
This is the clubhouse room from Monday, March 22nd. Topics discussed here include the situation with the Dispo app. Zoom’s new SDK. The fate of the Ho...
(Bonus) Friday 03.26 Clubhouse Room
So, as I said, this is one of the clubhouse rooms we did this week. In fact, it’s the one from last night. Chris convinced me to split the two rooms i...
Fri. 03/26 – The House Tech Hearings Were… Whatever…
The House tech hearings were a nothing burger, but I’ll try to explain what that means for us. Apple is considering a more rugged Apple Watch. Slack i...
Thu. 03/25 – DDR5 Arrives (F*** Everything, We're Doing Five Blades)
Remember that Onion headline, F- Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades? Well, Samsung says welcome to the DDR5 era. There’s more tech testimony on Capit...
Wed. 03/24 – Buying Teslas With Bitcoin Is More Bullish For Whom?
You can now use Bitcoin to buy a Tesla. You can now DM anyone on Slack. Intel is now doing what Ben Thompson has been telling them to do for years. Wh...
Tue. 03/23 – Microsoft To Buy Discord?
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy Discord but Discord might just take itself public instead. A ton of video game news including an Xbox rebrandi...
Mon. 03/22 – Unusual Trouble At Red-Hot Startup Dispo
Red hot app Dispo is losing some big name investors and the founder is leaving the startup’s board. As anticipated, Zoom goes platform. Microsoft is b...
(Bonus) Are NFT's Bad For Artists? And An Interesting Raise Sampler
Last weekend a listener to this show, Ti Zhang, (@zero_chill_tea) tagged me on twitter around a conversation they were having about NFTs and the degre...
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