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Episode 292: Wrap Around Analysis


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This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop?

Rundown
  • Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT
  • Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord
  • Amazon Twitter War
  • Work / Life
    • Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager?
    • Solomon Hykes is back
    • McKinsey’s advice to European banks: don’t bring an entourage to meetings.
    • Relevant to your interests
      • IBM doubles down on OpenShift
      • VMware Cloud announcement
      • The New York Times x NFT | Foundation
      • Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft
      • Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have
      • Fintech comes to America at last
      • Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call
      • PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code
      • T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app
      • Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
      • Introducing the Echo subsea cable
      • LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too
      • SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects
      • Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
      • Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm
      • ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade
      • Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore
      • Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work
      • Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
      • Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding
      • Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time
      • GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
      • Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
      • Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom
      • Nonsense
        • 'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia
        • Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team
        • Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day
        • Steer through the Suez Canal
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