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Brian McCullough
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Fri. 05/31 - Does Amazon Want To Be A Mobile Carrier?
Might Amazon get into the cellular carrier game and thus make a Sprint/T-Mobile merger more palatable? Uber’s first quarterly report as a public compa...
Thu. 05/30 - Google Tells Adblockers To Jump Off A Bridge
Microsoft brings the Xbox Game Pass to PCs, Google gives the finger to adblockers (and all of us), the DOJ will only approve the Sprint/T-Mobile merge...
Wed. 05/29 - Riders Can Now Get Banned From Uber
Amazon has a new Echo Show to go after the Google Nest Home Hub, the NYC subway is entering the mobile era, Uber says it will now ban RIDERS who get b...
Tue. 05/28 - The iPod touch Lives!
The iPod touch lives (and got an update), Dell’s whole laptop lineup got an update, the apocalypse is coming for small vendors on Amazon, MacKenzie Be...
Helvetica® Now With Monotype's Charles Nix
Nerds and tech folk have always had a special fascination with typeface and font design, and especially with the venerable Helvetica. Today we're goin...
Fri. 05/24 - iFixit Tears Down the MacBook Keyboard Tweaks
The Facebook cryptocurrency could be here in about six months, SpaceX launches its first batch of internet satellites, iFixit tears down the MacBook k...
Thu. 05/23 - An Indie Game Boy for the 21st Century
The Playdate is a Game Boy for the 21st Century, GitHub launches a Patreon for open source developers, Amazon is working on a health app that can moni...
Wed. 05/22 - The Huawei Mess Metastasizes
The Huawei mess metastasizes, the EU goes after Google again, Qualcomm loses to the FTC, and Comcast—of all people—is getting into health tech. Sponso...
Tue. 05/21 - Has Apple fixed the MacBook keyboard problem?
Has Apple fixed the MacBook keyboard problem? Huawei gets a 90 day reprieve, Instagram wants to copy Snapchat AND TikTok, the first self-driving mail...
Mon. 05/20 - Why 5G Could Ruin Weather Forecasting
Why Google ghosting Huawei might lead to a chain reaction for all of tech, the Sprint/T-Mobile merger gets a shot in the arm, GM sort of gets the poin...
The Streaming Wars With Eric Jackson
Eric Jackson is an investor at EMJ Capital Ltd. He’s deep in the media space, he’s deep in the streaming wars, as I think I say in this episode, he’s...
Jay and Farhad Show Reunion Part II
You know them, you love them, Jay Yarrow of CNBC, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times. It’s another Jay and Farhad Show Reunion! Today’s topics: Uber’...
Fri. 05/17 - Is Minecraft Earth The Killer App For AR?
Can Minecraft Earth be the killer app for AR? Are the best and brightest shunning working at Facebook? Has drone maker DJI beaten GoPro at its own gam...
Thu. 05/16 - The Hammer Comes Down on Huawei
The hammer is coming down on Huawei, China blocks Wikipedia, Google clarifies the Works with Nest shutdown, a 1TB microSD, more 5G rollouts, what shou...
Wed. 05/15 - Is Google Effectively Deprecating Search?
There’s a new major chip flaw called ZombieLoad, the major tech companies sign on to the so-called Christchurch Call to Action, San Francisco bans fac...
Tue. 05/14 - The Insane WhatsApp Flaw
WhatsApp discovered one of the craziest flaws I’ve ever heard about in mobile, Disney now controls all of Hulu, now we’ve got folding laptops, the One...
Mon. 05/13 - The App Store Has A Supreme Court Problem
A Supreme Court ruling might spell trouble for Apple and others, Amazon is automating the boxers out of a job, Discord is doing some serious MAU’s, wh...
The Rise of Huawei with Dexter Thillien
Not too long ago I did a longreads suggestion about Huawei and listener Dexter Thillien got in touch, because he’s a telecoms analyst, and he was actu...
Is Uber A Good Business? With Shira Ovide
I knew Uber was going public this week, and it occurred to me that since this podcast started, my default position has been: Uber: super cool company,...
Fri. 05/10 - The Uber IPO
Uber’s big IPO had some issues, smartphone shipments are at a 5 year low, do you need an app for unsubscribing to things and of course, the weekend lo...
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