Software Defined Talk

Episode 537: YOLO acquisitions


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This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

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Runner-up Titles
  • "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
  • Matt Ray comes off the top rope
  • We are in that demographic
  • Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
  • No Translation Needed
  • Do we have a fashion channel?
  • Why not us too?
  • Let’s just try it
  • Hooters adjacent tech story
  • Pay-per-crawl.
  • I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
  • Cool, copyright, I love it
  • Just lots of weird stuff going on.
  • Y’all are weird
  • Rundown
    • Final thought on Australia
    • Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million
    • VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide
    • An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
    • Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
    • Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
    • Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
    • Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
    • Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
    • Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18
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