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Mon. 04/19 – Facebook To Announce Going Big On Audio, Via Audio?
Mon. 04/19 – Facebook To Announce Going Big On Audio, Via Audio? Facebook has probably just outlined its plans to go big on audio, via a digital audio...
Office Hours With Chris Fralic Of First Round Capital
Chris Fralic of First Round Capital was involved in funding such companies as Ring, Hotel Tonight, Warby Parker, Rec Room, and as you’ll hear today, R...
Fri. 04/16 – Chip Shortage To Continue; Sucks For Everyone, Basically
The biggest semiconductor companies in the world warn than the global chip shortage might roll on for years. Could that recent batch of Facebook accou...
Thu. 04/15 – Bezos’ Farewell To Amazon Investors
Jeff Bezos pens his farewell to the troops, and also, the shareholders. A big Google Earth update. Some thoughts on yesterday’s Coinbase debut. DJI up...
Wed. 04/14 – Now It’s the FBI Doing The (Legal?) Hacking
Wed. 04/14 – Now It’s the FBI Doing The (Legal?) Hacking The FBI hacked into some Exchange servers to prevent further hacking of Exchange servers. Min...
Tues. 04/13 - New Surface Laptop 4
Everyone announced something today. A new Surface Laptop 4. New Nvidia things. New Roku things. Something new from Spotify literally called Car Thing....
Mon. 04/12 – Microsoft Acquires Nuance
Microsoft acquires the biggest name in speech tech. Apple is maybe developing some home gadgets I feel like they should have done years ago. Might we...
(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...
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