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Thu. 07/09 – Apple’s Not Gonna Abandon Thunderbolt
Coinbase might be the most important IPO of the next several years. More bad numbers from Quibi. Apple wants you to know it is not abandoning Thunderb...
Wed. 07/08 – Facebook Fails Its Own Audit
Facebook fails its own civil rights audit. Details of the new Thunderbolt 4 standard. Details on the new Snapdragon chip. Unpacking what might be in s...
Tue. 07/07 – Will The US Government Ban TikTok?
TikTok pulls it’s app completely for the Hong Kong market. But could the US ban TikTok in the US market? And India shows us what happens when TikTok g...
Mon. 07/06 – Uber Buys Postmates
Uber buys Postmates for $2.65 billion dollars. There’s an Xbox Series X event coming later this month. An algorithm that could PREDICT Covid-19 outbre...
Thu. 07/02 – ALL of Silicon Valley (kinda) Has A Date With Washington
Zuckerberg has told Facebook staff he’s not overly worried about the boycotts. The Fab 4 CEOs of the biggest tech companies (minus Microsoft) all have...
Wed. 07/01 – YouTube TV Has Recreated The TV Bundle At Essentially The Same Price Point
The reckoning for social media ad spend might be hitting critical mass. Spotify gets more affordable for couples. YouTube TV gets more expensive for e...
Tue. 06/30 – Amazon Prime Video Launches Watch Party
Lululemon wants to buy Mirror. We think Uber is thinking about buying Postmates. Amazon Prime Video launches Watch Party. Android’s AirDrop competitor...
Mon. 06/29 – Reddit Bans r/The_Donald and The Facebook Ad Boycott, Explained
Reddit bans r/The_Donald and I try to break down the almost hour by hour, day by day timeline of the whole Facebook/social media ad boycott situation....
(Bonus) WWDC Wrap Up With Rene Ritchie @reneritchie
This is a really simple one. WWDC happened this week. Rene Ritchie has been attending it, virtually, of course. So he’s here to break down the keynote...
Fri. 06/26 - Amazon Buys Self-Driving Startup Zoox
Amazon is officially in the self-driving car game. Microsoft is officially keeping its retail stores closed… forever. Verizon had joined the Facebook...
Thu. 06/25 – Amazon Has A Counterfeit Crimes Unit (Sounds Like An NBC TV Show)
Wirecard is wiped out. Amazon has its own Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Apple quietly made a change that will make things pretty tough on advertisers. Goog...
Wed. 06/24 – Oculus Go and Olympus (and Force Touch?) Go Bye Bye
Brazil puts the breaks on payments via WhatsApp. Advertisers apply pressure on Facebook via a boycott. Oculus is putting an end to the Oculus Go. Olym...
Tue. 06/23 – Zoom is No Longer The King of the Work-From-Home Era
Wirecard’s former CEO has been arrested. Microsoft pulls out of the other streaming wars by shutting down Mixer. Some analysis and additional details...
Mon. 06/22 – WWDC 2020 (Virtually)
All of the headlines I can manage to cram in from today’s World Wide Developer Conference from Apple. Hey gets approved, by the way. Google’s ad reven...
Fri. 06/19 – It’s Gonna Be An Interesting WWDC…
Apple officially says no to HEY and people are pissed, kind of just about the WAY they said it. A look at the internal divisions inside Apple over tho...
Thu. 06/18 – Audio Comes To Tweets
Apple has rejected a Facebook app five times, so back to that debate again. Twitter lets you add audio to tweets. Door Dash raises a round. Surprise!...
Wed. 06/17 – HEY! The Whole Brouhaha Between Apple And Basecamp
We dive deep into the whole HEY brouhaha and wonder if this is the best time for Apple to draw attention to App Store policies. Uber is getting into t...
Tue. 06/16 – Apple’s Turn in The EU Antitrust Toolshed
The EU is investigating Apple for antitrust. Is Instagram surpassing Twitter as a news source? A look at that new Hey email service. A look at a whole...
Mon. 06/15 – People Are Actually MORE Honest On Their Cellphones
The zero interest Mac financing is here. Shopify and Walmart team up, as they probably should. Is Mr. Bezos about to go to Washington? Interesting che...
Fri. 06/12 – Why Chris Cox Returning to Facebook is Such A Big Deal
Twitter takes down a bunch of accounts it says are government propaganda. UK regulators are gonna take a hard look at Facebook’s Giphy acquisition. I...
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