Regulation Episodes

Legal and regulatory news and rumors for tech companies.
July 7, 2020

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 gets banned. Palantir is about to IPO. A new video compression standard is …
July 2, 2020

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 a date to testify before Congress later this month. Police hacked an encr…
June 11, 2020

Thu. 06/11 – Regulation News Thursday

It’s regulation news day. The EU might be about to file antitrust charges against Amazon and California officially labeled Uber and Lyft workers as employees. Amazon also hit pause on its facial recognition tech as it waits …
June 10, 2020

Wed. 06/10 – Robocallers Face The Music

Another day, another flaw in Intel chips discovered. More analysis of Apple’s presumed move away from Intel chips for Macs. Is Just Eat Takeaway about to swallow up Grubhub? What happened to Zynn on the Play Store? And an in…
May 29, 2020

Fri. 05/29 – The Best Summary of the Executive Order I Can Muster (Replacement)

I do my best to breakdown the who Twitter/executive order situation, at least at the time of this recording. Hall of Fame fundraiser drops mic and rides off into the sunset. TikTok has an interesting new rival. And, of cours…
April 23, 2020

Thu. 04/23 – Privacy Hypocrisy From France?

Custom Mac chips by 2021? Robot nurses already in hospitals? Bill Gurley into the sunset? Why some people are accusing France of digital privacy hypocrisy, and an interesting raise in the remote work space. Specifically: rem…
Oct. 14, 2019

Mon. 10/14 - Apple's Chinese Conundrum

More China related controversy for Apple, for gaming, for all of tech really… but why Apple suddenly finds itself in a unique bind. More iPhone SE 2 rumors, the latest installment of “Will We Actually Ever See Libra?” and wh…
Sept. 12, 2019

Thu. 09/12 - Uber: We're NOT in the Ride Hailing Business!

Uber says the California contractor law doesn’t apply to it because it is… checks notes… not technically in the ride hailing business, will France block Libra in the EU, dark mode comes to Slack, crowd-sourced answers come t…
Sept. 11, 2019

Wed. 09/11 - California Borks The Gig Economy (?)

Will a California law change the entire landscape of the gig economy? Can Dutchie build a Shopify-like ecommerce platform for cannabis? Will Switzerland be less welcoming to Libra that Facebook hoped? And a rundown of the fa…
Aug. 29, 2019

Thu. 08/29 - Apple Bends On "Right To Repair"

Apple makes nice with repair shops (and saves the date for the iPhone launch next month), an undersea cable mostly already built could be axed cause… China stuff, YouTube says it’s made progress on cleaning up its algorithm,…
July 16, 2019

Tue. 07/16 - Who Put The Politics In My Tech?

Facebook explains Libra to Congress, Amazon might be next in the EU’s woodshed, Google might be next in Trump’s woodshed, another Tesla lineup shakeup, a couple of interesting raises and Microsoft opens Windows up to all you…
June 12, 2019

Wed. 06/12 - The DOJ is Telegraphing its Possible Punches to Silicon Valley

The state of the Internet according to Mary Meeker, Houseparty joins the Fortnite party, Uber Elevate is planning some important firsts, the DOJ is telegraphing its possible punches to Silicon Valley, and someone find Have I…
May 22, 2019

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. Sponsors: AirTable.com/techmeme Tech.FidelityCareers.com The Castro Podcast Ap…
May 16, 2019

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 should we think of Quibi and you didn’t fall for that porn scam did you? Spons…
May 13, 2019

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, what the death of Nest means for IOT, and a LITERAL Bitcoin treasure hunt. S…