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April 29, 2022Fri. 04/29 – Snap’s Pixy Drone Is A Flying Camera
Snap’s Pixy, is a new sort of done/camera hybrid. We wrap up tech earnings week with Apple and Amazon. I continue to wonder if the one click checkout space is all it’s cracked up to be. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy (TechCrunch)
Snap Pixy Review: Don’t Call It a Drone or a Selfie Stick—Even Though It’s Both (WSJ)
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
The Twitter Thread With The Charts On Amazon (@juokaz)
Bolt, a Checkout Startup Worth $11 Billion, Lost Customers as Revenue Stalled (The Information)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™
Elon's Giant Package (Margins Substack)
Weather Prediction Startups Grow as More Volatile Storms Loom (Bloomberg)
As Polaroid’s SX-70 turns 50, instant photography is booming (Fast Company)
21 min
April 28, 2022Thu. 04/28 – Twitter’s Last Ever Earnings Report?
Twitter reports earnings, for maybe the last time, publicly. Meta’s earnings weren’t THAT bad but that’s mostly because the set the table for it. Apple faces antitrust charges in the EU as soon as next week. Another country adopts bitcoin as currency. And would you like a dedicated metaverse room in your next house?
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Links:
Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk’s takeover bid (CNBC)
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (The Verge)
Meta's Bleak Q1; Spotify's Netflix Moment (The Information)
Apple to face fresh antitrust charges in Brussels (FT)
Google may now remove search results that dox you (The Verge)
Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic (BBCNews)
NSA Re-awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (NextGov)
How the pandemic is changing home design (Axios)
16 min
April 27, 2022Wed. 04/27 – Earnings Quick Hits
Quick summation of Alphabet and Microsoft earnings. DJI is trying to prevent its drones from being used in the Ukraine war. Google has released tools to make it easier to spin up your own YouTube. Apple wants you to repair your iPhone yourself. And a deep dive into why autocorrect can’t ducking get it right sometimes. Ducking. I said ducking, which is the iPhone autocorrect version of that word.
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Links:
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (Alphabet)
Earnings Release FY22 Q3 (Microsoft)
Robinhood lays off nine percent of its full-time employees (Engadget)
DJI Becomes Most Prominent Chinese Firm to Halt Russia Business (Bloomberg)
Google launches Media CDN to compete on content delivery (TechCrunch)
Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE (CNET)
Apple’s Studio Display’s poor webcam quality is not a software bug after all (9to5Mac)
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (WSJ)
18 min
April 26, 2022Tue. 04/26 – Twitter, Now Under New Management
You did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it. You know what that’s referring to, of course. Fidelity lets you allocate some of your 401(k) to bitcoin. More Bored Apes got swiped. And with the F-150 Lightning actually shipping today, another glimpse at the precarious reality of the electric car revolution.
Links:
Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal (CNBC)
Elon Musk buys Twitter (Platformer/Casey Newton)
From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (Financial Times)
Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts (WSJ)
Bored Ape Instagram account hacked: NFTs worth $2.8 million stolen (The Block)
SoftBank Cuts Back Spending, Leaving Startups Desperate for Cash (Bloomberg)
THE F-150 LIGHTNING IS FINALLY SHIPPING — IS FORD READY? (The Verge)
18 min
April 25, 2022Mon. 04/25 – Wherein I Race Elon On Breaking News
By the time you hear these words, Elon Musk might already own Twitter. A big Java vulnerability. All of Mark Gurman’s expectations for the iPhone 14. Where and by how much, tech worker salaries are rising. And why the struggles at Netflix might lead to worse television across the board.
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Links:
Twitter Eyes Deal With Musk as Soon as Monday (Bloomberg)
Analysis: Musk tears up buyout playbook with $46.5 billion Twitter financing (Reuters)
Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries (ArsTechnica)
The iPhone 14 Is Less Than Six Months Away. Here’s What to Expect (Bloomberg)
Tech Wage Inflation Puts Pressure on Companies (WSJ)
Netflix and Facebook have given up most of the last few years’ gains since tech’s November peak (CNBC)
The Netflix Nightmare: What Happens When an Industry Becomes a Squid Game (Vanity Fair)
18 min
April 24, 2022 (Portfolio Profile) OpenAxis
Founder Alex Damianou tells us about OpenAxis, which tells stories with data. If a picture tells a thousand words, how many does a chart tell? Easily and beautifully visualize data with an accessible point-and-click, no-code, no-pivot-table tool.

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28 min
April 23, 2022 (TWTR SPC) - WTF Netflix? W/ @loudmouthjulia
The great Julia Alexander (@loudmouthjulia) joins us to talk about Netflix's big earnings bomb, CNN+ biting the big one, and the state of the streaming wars.
1 hr 27 min
April 22, 2022Fri. 04/22 – The Demise Of CNN+ Makes Quibi Look Good
CNN+ only made it, what, 1/8th of a Quibi? There’s blood on the streaming wars dance floor. a16z’s new crypto research lab makes me feel like I have to start covering them like a startup or a conglomerate. More bad news for Meta: they’re way behind in the payments race in India. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
CNN+ Streaming Service Will Shut Down Weeks After Its Start (NYTimes)
a16z Crypto is launching an academic research lab focused on web3 (The Block)
How Meta Platforms Fell Behind in Indian Mobile Payments (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
ApeCoin & the death of staking (Cobie Substack)
Cutting-Edge Crypto Coins Tout Stability. Critics Call Them Dangerous. (WSJ)
Rivian CEO Warns of Looming Electric-Vehicle Battery Shortage (WSJ)
Video Game Junkie Quietly Builds $3 Billion Payments Powerhouse (Bloomberg)
The Sidekick Was the Best Smartphone Ever (Debugger)
18 min
April 21, 2022Thu. 04/21 – Ok. Funding Actually Secured?
Ok. Funding actually secured, Elon? For real this time? A look at Tesla’s good earnings and monster margins. Unions are coming for big tech, it seems. A reckoning is coming for the lightning cable, it seems. And advertising in your console games is inevitable, it seems.
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Links:
Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Says He Has Commitments for $46.5 Billion in Financing for Twitter Deal (WSJ)
Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover (The Verge)
Tesla record profit blows away estimates (CNN Business)
Tesla reports $18.76 billion in revenue and record margins in Q1 (CNBC)
Apple Store workers in Atlanta are the first to formally seek a union. (NYTimes)
Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS (CNBC)
PlayStation Wants Ads In Its Games, Too (IGN)
MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules (TechCrunch)
Zoom’s thumbs-up and raise-hand gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps (The Verge)
18 min
April 20, 2022Wed. 04/20 – Netflix Earnings Bomb; Ads To The Rescue?
Netflix shares crater after earnings, and the company might be turning to ad-supported streaming to eke out some growth. Coinbase’s NFT marketplace is live. Why crypto stocks are uncoupled from the underlying crypto market. Why the surge in zero days might actually be good news. And the tech bubble that would never burst. So far.
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Links:
Netflix Q1 net subscribers unexpectedly decline, revenue misses expectations (Yahoo!Finance)
Netflix Plans to Launch Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans (The Hollywood Reporter)
Just Eat Weighs Grubhub Sale in Tough Food Delivery Market (Bloomberg)
Coinbase NFT marketplace goes live in beta for select customers (The Block)
Crypto Stocks Perform Worse Than Cryptocurrencies (WSJ)
Google: 2021 was a Banner Year for Exploited 0-Day Bugs (ThreatPost)
Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’ (The Verge)
The Tech Bubble That Never Burst (NYTimes)
18 min