Vaccine news hurts tech stock

Zoom's share price may have peaked. Tech crunch reports, "Stock markets worldwide are soaring on news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in a matter of months. But while the euphoria is helping sectors that have taken punishment during COVID-19, not all companies are catching the same updraft."

Stock gainers today:

Carnival Cruises: +40%

Royal Caribbean: +31%

Host Hotels: +30%

Wynn Resorts: +29%

Marriott: +22%

United Airlines +24%

Expedia: +22%

Stock decliners today:

Amazon: -5%

Domino's Pizza: -7%

Netflix: -9%

Docusign: -11%

Zoom: -17%

Etsy: -20%

Peloton: -23%

This is just one random day of activities that no one will remember, but it could mark the start of the post-covid optimism. Where we will see what consumer behaviours stick, and which ones we immediately drop. 

iPhone Max and Mini reviews hit

Joanna Stern is my favourtie consumer tech reviewer, and her video at the Wall Street Journal is great as always. 

You can see why the arrival of the iPhone 12 Mini—a phone sized to fit the appendages you actually hold it with—is such an anatomically historical event.

Meanhwhile, the Verge is blown away by the camera in the Max, but they question if the device is just too damn big to carry. 

The Verge's Nilay Patel believes the iPhone 12 Pro Max has "the best smartphone camera you can get," noting that photos shot on the device "are generally less noisy" than those shot on the...

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