Mon. 02/08 – Tesla Buys Bitcoin While Elon Sends Dogecoin To The Moon!

The singularity is near, cause all our meme stories are colliding. Tesla has bought a ton of Bitcoin while Elon is tweet-pumping Dogecoin. Clubhouse is blocked in China. Cold water on the Apple Car story from Hyundai itself. TikTok is skipping directly to an ecommerce buildout. And Xiaomi’s big new global flagship phone.

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Links:

• Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment (CNBC)
• Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (TechCrunch)
• Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia (Bloomberg)
• Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content (Bloomberg)
• TikTok takes on Facebook with US ecommerce push (FT)
• Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2020 Retrospective (Platformonomics)
• Xiaomi’s global Mi 11 has a Snapdragon 888 for €749 (The Verge)

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