Episodes
May 1, 2020
Fri. 05/01 - Sometime Sanity Wins (ICANN Edition)
ICANN finally does the right thing on the whole .org mess. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. Could Amazon face actual perjury charges? Reddit walks back those chat rooms. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Spons...
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April 30, 2020
Thu. 04/30 – Don’t Fight The Tape (Tech Earnings Edition)
Four big earnings reports for four big tech companies, but we’ll leave that to the end. Intel launches a new flagship clip line, Andreessen Horowitz launches a new crypto fund, Zoom fesses up on MAUs, and Reddit goes old scho...
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April 29, 2020
Wed. 04/29 – Here Come the Tech Earnings…
The biggest tech earnings season in a while kicks off and so far, it’s so good for Alphabet. Spotify says its holding up as well. Though Uber might lay off 20% of its workforce, Ford is delaying its self-driving road map, and...
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April 28, 2020
Tue. 04/28 – Deepfakes As A Killer (Advertising) App
Shopify unveils its own shopping app. DJI unveils the Mavic Air 2. The Pixel Buds 2 finally arrive. Tesla pushes out a new auto driving update. What really accounts for Magic Leap’s crash and burn? And why deepfakes are proba...
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April 27, 2020
Mon. 04/27 – It’s Always A Good Day When Your Starship Doesn’t Explode
iPhone production might be delayed, but the launch might not be, and actually, that might bounce in Apple’s favor. Autocomplete for coding. A little more background on John Stankey. Progress on my robot burrito delivery. And ...
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April 26, 2020
(Bonus Bonus) The Alfred P. Sloan Era of the Internet Era
This piece: John Luttig's When Tailwinds Vanish caused me to go on a random jag this afternoon. Since I had nothing better to do than post it to Medium, I read it into the microphone too... PS: the medium piece I wrote up is ...
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April 25, 2020
(Bonus) Why Shopify Is #Winning With James McLeod
As you’re about to hear, I’ve wanted to do a deep dive episode discussion on Shopify and how they’re suddenly the big up and coming, potential tech behemoth… arguably the most successful tech IPO of the last five years; seemi...
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April 24, 2020
Fri. 04/24 - Google Battens Down The Hatches
AT&T’s CEO rides off into the sunset is both a surprise and not a surprise at all. Whole bunch of interesting Google news all at once. More on that iOS zero-day, more data on tech industry hiring and layoffs, and, of course, ...
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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: remo...
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April 22, 2020
Wed. 04/22 – Facebook’s Big Play In India
Huge Facebook investment in India. Tech earnings season is back, and this promises to be a super interesting one for all the reasons you can imagine. Two iPhone zero days found out in the wild. Patreon does do layoffs but say...
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April 21, 2020
Tue. 04/21 – Sonos Radio
Sonos launches its own streaming radio service, huge trove of Facebook accounts purchased on the dark web, Google goes with free to compete with Amazon in product search, Kickstarter is seeing a huge drop in project launches ...
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April 20, 2020
Mon. 04/20 – Well, Your iPad IS A Laptop Now, Which Means Bigger And Heavier
Paging Farmville: Facebook takes another stab at owning mobile gaming. Rupert Murdoch's longstanding wish is granted. Dropbox had longstanding doubts about its erstwhile partner Zoom. More data on the health of tech investing...
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April 18, 2020
(Bonus) Who's Right About The Economy? Wall Street Or Silcon Valley? With Alex Wilhelm @alex
I wasn’t supposed to do a weekend episode this weekend. I’ve got one scheduled for next week that I still need to record. But a few days ago, I saw Alex Wilhelm at TechCrunch tweet that he was doing a piece about why everyone...
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April 17, 2020
Fri. 04/17 - Y Combinator Gets Picky
Microsoft has some AI tech that can catch bugs 99% of the time, Y Combinator is going to be more picky about who it invests in, macOS is getting a smarter battery management system for your laptop, and of course, the weekend ...
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April 16, 2020
Thu. 04/16 - The Video Conferencing Space Is So Hot, We’re Getting Steamy M&A Action Now.
The video conferencing space is so hot, we’re getting steamy M&A action now. Apple wants to get stylish with over the ear headphones. Robinhood bucks a couple of trends with a new round. And is Facebook’s Libra just gonna dro...
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April 15, 2020
Wed. 04/15 – New iPhone SE!
Hellooooo new iPhone SE. Airbnb raises another debt round. Amazon kneecaps affiliate marketers. Now it’s Medium’s turn to face fake news (or, at least, fake experts) scrutiny. And why Houseparty is now, officially, another un...
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April 14, 2020
Tue, 04/14 - Seems Like Old Times! An Actual Smartphone Launch Event!
We have an actual smartphone launch event to report on! Google is apparently close to powering it’s devices with its own custom-design silicon. Microsoft Teams is getting closer to Zoom in a good, feature-wise way. An update ...
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April 13, 2020
Mon. 04/13 – Back To The iPhone 5 Design Future?
Deeper dives into that Google/Apple contact tracing project, solid rumors about the new iPhone design, the telecom industry might lose $25 billion dollars this year and international roaming charges are to blame, and an open ...
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April 11, 2020
(Bonus) Tech Giant Psychoanalysis With Alex Kantrowitz
I couldn’t tell you the amount of times, over the last two years, I’ve quoted pieces from Alex Kantrowitz on this show. Hundreds of times? Easy? Alex is the senior tech reporter at Buzzfeed News, and, while I don’t have favor...
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April 10, 2020
Fri. 04/10 – HUGE: Apple and Google Join Forces For Coronavirus Contact Tracing
Amazon is creating a system to test its own employees for Coronavirus, Google creates a system to help with unemployment claims, one more attempt to keep track of the Google messaging branding mess, more evidence Zuckerberg r...
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April 9, 2020
Thu. 04/09 – Why The Pandemic Might Be Long-Term Good For The Internet
Disney+ continues to blow the doors off the place. Good old phone calls are back, along with the Desktop web. Don’t expect to see new emoji for a while. Stadia is free for anyone with a Gmail account, COBAL skills are in high...
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April 8, 2020
Wed. 04/08 – The Desktop Web Is Back (for the time being…)
Jack Dorsey literally puts his money to work for Coronavirus relief. More details on that Airbnb lifeline raise. Details on an interesting telemedicine raise. Netflix has increased parental controls, Google is pushing a manda...
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April 7, 2020
Tue. 04/07 - The Latest Startup Gunning For Gmail
WhatsApp wants to make it harder for things to go viral. Airbnb buys some runway. Foursquare merges with another location data company. Checking in with Masa Son. And the latest startup to say it wants to blow up email and un...
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April 6, 2020
Mon. 04/06 – Happy Quibi Day!
Happy Quibi day everybody. Check out your Quick Bites for free while you can! Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is a hella powerful laptop, but that’s apparently why the battery life sucks. And the Covid-related conspi...
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