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July 23, 2022 (TWTR SPC) - Fake Review Economies And How Social Networks Win
Saoud Kalifah of FakeSpot.com joins us to discuss what I guess we could call, the fake review economy. Chris made a compelling case for the new Browser Company browser Arc. I try to find my way to a Brian’s Unified Theory of what makes new social networks succeed.
1 hr 34 min
July 22, 2022Fri. 07/22 – Not Great, Bob! Snap And Twitter Edition
Well, things weren’t so rosy with Twitter earnings, and downright abysmal over at Snap. The Feds bring the first ever case for insider trading in the crypto space. Your next smart lock might draw its power from your phone as you use it. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid (CNBC)
Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report (CNBC)
Ex-Coinbase Manager Arrested in US Crypto Insider-Trading Case (Bloomberg)
Your next smart lock could ditch the battery by harvesting energy from your phone (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Chiplets helped save AMD. They might also help save Moore’s law and head off an energy crisis. (Protocol)
Meta’s next big bet: The ‘metaversity’ (Protocol)
Amazon C.E.O. Andy Jassy Breaks From the Bezos Way (NYTimes)
The Great Fiction of AI (The Verge)
The Re-Reinvention of the Travel Agent (Skift)
17 min
July 21, 2022Thu. 07/21 – Did Tesla Trigger The Crypto Crash?
Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too. Did Tesla cause the crypto crash? And DALL-E 2 is now more widely available.
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Links:
Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B (TechCrunch)
Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge)
Minecraft team says NFTs and blockchain are, well, blocked (Polygon)
Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg)
Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information)
Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt)
@CryptoKaleo Tweet
TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch)
OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch)
18 min
July 20, 2022Wed. 07/20 – Netflix Earnings Not SO Bad
Netflix reported earnings that weren’t as bad as even they had been telegraphing. So that’s something. The court case is already going against how Elon Musk hoped it would go. What’s up with everyone leaving Neuralink? And a deep-dive look at BeReal. Is it the next big thing or just the latest fad?
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Netflix loses fewer subscribers than expected and says cheaper ad tier is coming in early 2023 (CNBC)
Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay (CNBC)
A Neuralink cofounder left Elon Musk's brain-chip company, leaving it with just 2 of its 8 founding members (Insider)
Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses (CNET)
Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now (FastCompany)
Why BeReal is breaking out (Platformer)
19 min
July 19, 2022Tue. 07/19 – Amazon Sues Facebook (Group Admins)
Amazon is stepping up its war against bogus product reviews. Netflix is testing more crackdowns on password sharing. Slack is raising prices. ESPN+ is raising prices. But one streaming service is actually LOWERING prices? And mark your calendars, cause the Fall product launch season is upon us.
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Links:
Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews (TechCrunch)
Netflix Tests Another Way to Charge for Password Sharing (Bloomberg)
Apple Sued Over Apple Pay, Accused of Antitrust Violations (Bloomberg)
Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works (TechCrunch)
ESPN+ Monthly Subscription to Rise $3 as Disney Strives for Streaming Profits (Variety)
Crunchyroll is lowering monthly subscription fees in almost 100 regions (Engadget)
Samsung confirms August 10th Unpacked event date with ‘cryptic’ puzzle (The Verge)
WD begins shipping 22TB Red Pro, Purple Pro and Gold HDDs (Club386)
17 min
July 18, 2022Mon. 07/18 – It’s Vibe Shifts All The Way Down
Everything we cover is in a full vibe shift of… pulling back. Coinbase sent some eyebrows up over the weekend, but insolvency is off the table. Right? Right? Adam Newmann’s crypto startup is hitting the pause button. All the rapid delivery startups that flooded New York City last year seem to be done. Poof. And is Silicon Valley itself definitively shrinking?
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Links:
Snap launches Snapchat for Web to bring the app's core features to desktop (TechCrunch)
Leaked emails: Crypto exchange Coinbase is 'temporarily shutting down' its US affiliate-marketing program (Insider)
Coinbase stirs rumors of liquidity woes as it halts affiliate-marketing program (Insider Bitcoins)
Crypto Crash Stalls WeWork Founder Adam Neumann’s Climate Venture (WSJ)
The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups (Wired)
Tiger Global-backed Missfresh faces fight for survival (FT)
71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. (WSJ)
19 min
July 16, 2022 (Portfolio Profile) ArcX
Ride Home Fund's latest investment: the smart ring/device controller ArcX! More at https://arcx.fit/
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29 min
July 15, 2022Fri. 07/15 – The “Vibe Shift” At Amazon
Now the haircuts have come for Stripe, but they took theirs voluntarily. Who’s responsible for the big hole on Celsius’ balance sheet? Twitter wants to let devs make their own timelines. Will Amazon voluntarily exit the white label business. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28% (WSJ)
Celsius Discloses $1.19 Billion Deficit in Bankruptcy Filing (Bloomberg)
Twitter is testing custom timelines, and first one is about The Bachelorette (TechCrunch)
Amazon Has Been Slashing Private-Label Selection Amid Weak Sales (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How Three Arrows Capital Blew Up and Set Off a Crypto Contagion (Bloomberg)
The Standards Innovation Paradox (Michael Mignano Medium)
Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. (NYTimes)
Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production (NYTimes)
How the Webb sends its hundred-megapixel images a million miles back to Earth (TechCrunch)
The Webb Space Telescope’s Profound Data Challenges (iee Spectrum)
19 min
July 14, 2022Thu. 07/14 – Is TikTok A Threat To Google Search?
Celsius files for bankruptcy. Tesla loses a key Autopilot exec. Netflix chooses Microsoft for it’s ads partnership. Could TikTok be a long-term problem for Google Search? And the reviews are in for the new Macbook Airs with M2 chips.
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Links:
Embattled crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy protection (CNBC)
Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt (Financial Times)
Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he’s leaving the company (CNBC)
Netflix is partnering with Microsoft for its new ad-supported tier (The Verge)
Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs (TechCrunch)
Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps (TechCrunch)
APPLE’S NEW MACBOOK AIR M2 IS THE START OF A WHOLE NEW AIR-A (The Verge)
16 min
July 13, 2022Wed. 07/13 – Twitter Takes The Gloves Off
Twitter officially sues Elon Musk and by the sound of things, has decided to go to the mattresses. Has Apple officially cut ties with Jony Ive? Here come the tech mergers and acquisitions. How streaming has officially killed traditional tv by at least one measure. And an interesting new gadget. Nothing. I’ll explain.
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Links:
Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal (NYTimes)
15 Revelations in Twitter’s Suit Against Elon Musk (Intelligencer)
Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader (NYTimes)
Unity is merging with Ironsource in an all-stock deal valuing Ironsource at $4.4B in a big consolidation play for gaming (TechCrunch)
Read the memo Google’s CEO sent employees about a hiring slowdown (The Verge)
Nothing officially announces flashy Phone 1, starting at £399 (The Verge)
HBO & HBO Max Smash Past Netflix In Total Emmy Nominations As Hulu & Apple Score Strong Showings (Deadline)
17 min