Sept. 13, 2019
Fri. 09/13 - Cloudflare IPO: Good. WeWork IPO: (???...)
Cloudflare has a successful IPO, but will WeWork’s planned IPO be considered a success even if it actually has one? Is another investment bubble popping in the AR/VR space? Will the streaming wars kill the back-end deal in Hollywood? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Cloudflare stock pops 20% in first day of trading (CNBC)
- WeWork’s valuation could fall to below $15 billion in IPO, down from $47 billion private valuation (CNBC)
- House lawmakers ask Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe (The Washington Post)
- Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down (TechCrunch)
- J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The end of the backend? Disney wants to limit profit participation on its new TV shows (Los Angeles Times)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (NYTimes)
- As sex toys continue to get hacked, the definition of sexual assault is under question (Screen Shot)
- What Happened to Urban Dictionary? (Wired)
- TONY HAWK ON HOW HIS GAMES CHANGED SKATEBOARDING (The Verge)
- From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire (Forbes)
- Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (Science)
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