FeedCity: Techmeme Ride Home

Techmeme Ride Home
04 Jan 2021 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 01/04 – Some Google Workers Say Union YES!

15:40

Google/Alphabet workers launch an official union drive. We’ve got a date for the Galaxy Unpacked event. Microsoft wants to give Windows a good scrubbing this year. Everyone wants a piece of ShareChat. Gazelle is getting out of the trade-in business. And LG doesn’t want to gi...

Techmeme Ride Home
30 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 12/30 – Apple Loses A Copyright Lawsuit

20:06

Apple loses an interesting copyright law case. Get ready to see TikToks in your Google searches. Amazon’s “other” business unit is becoming a monster. The tech consumers did, and did not AS MUCH partake in over the holidays. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. ...

Techmeme Ride Home
29 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 12/29 – Coinbase To Suspend Trading of XRP

17:44

Coinbase is suspending trading of XRP. Ant Group tries to appease the CCP. Will we soon see immunity passports on our phones? We now know the identity of the first tech IPO of the new year. And why, if you’re doing to do some dirt, you might want to know that your car is pro...

Techmeme Ride Home
28 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 12/28 – After Jack Ma, Is China Freezing Its Entire Tech Sector?

18:53

The Chinese Communist Party is throwing serious cold water on its entire tech sector by continuing to target Jack Ma. Did Elon Musk once try to sell Tesla to Apple? Drones are getting digital license plates, of a sort. And a look at the generation of search engine startups h...

Techmeme Ride Home
23 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 12/23 – XRP, The 3rd Biggest Cryptocurrency Might Be In Big Trouble

19:29

The SEC does indeed sue Ripple, and that could be a bigger deal than I thought. Twitter won’t hand over the @Potus Twitter followers to Biden. What Zoom wants to do for its next act beyond video. Controlling your AirPods with your teeth. And, special for this week, a Long Ho...

Techmeme Ride Home
22 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 12/22 – Why I Think The Apple Car Is For Real

18:12

See… I had a feeling. Reuters says Apple really is revealing an Apple Car in the coming years. More details on that suit charging Facebook and Google allegedly agreed to divvy up the ad market. The third biggest cryptocurrency says the SEC is coming after it. And the crazy s...

Techmeme Ride Home
21 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 12/21 – Big Day For Real Estate Tech

17:05

Huge day for Real Estate tech with Opendoor going public to a soaring valuation and RealPage getting bought for a ton of money. Microsoft might design its own custom silicon, cause, why not (to quote Vincent Hanna)? Is the first under the display selfie camera basically a fa...

Techmeme Ride Home
18 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 12/18 – Chinese Drone Maker DJI Blacklisted By The US

20:34

Drone maker DJI is blacklisted by the commerce department. Group video comes to Echo devices. Twitter launches Spaces. Sony offers refunds for Cyberpunk 2077. Coinbase files to go public. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Masterworks.io, promocod...

Techmeme Ride Home
17 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 12/17 – The Apple-Facebook Cold War Is Getting Hot

16:56

Mommy and Daddy are fighting. This time it’s Apple and Facebook and it’s getting pretty heated. The EU okays Google’s acquisition of Fitbit. Substack has resurrected Google Reader, in spirit at least. And why the new antitrust lawsuit against Google is maybe the most serious...

Techmeme Ride Home
16 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 12/16 – Google’s Stadia Arrives on iOS and iPadOS In Beta

19:28

Day three of the SolarWinds hack fallout sees major investors unloading stock at a suspicious time. M1 chip support comes to some major apps. Periscope joins the Deadpool. Bitcoin crosses $20k. An AirPods Max review. And what if you could make a digital platform for board ga...

Techmeme Ride Home
15 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 12/15 – Europe’s Big New Rules for Big Tech

17:02

Europe’s big new regulatory regime for big tech. More fallout from what looks like the biggest hack our government has ever seen. The FTC asks basically everyone in tech how they get their data. A ‘faraday fabric’ that can serve as an invisibility cloak for radio waves. An i...

Techmeme Ride Home
14 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 12/14 – The “10-out-of-10” US Treasury/SolarWinds Hack

16:44

Hackers attack the US Treasury in an attack so severe one person called it a 10 out of 10. Pornhub has removed millions of videos. Amazon’s Zoox has a robo electric taxi. Are the recent IPO pops sign of a bubble? And could Jony Ive’s next job be as the head of luxury automak...

Techmeme Ride Home
12 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) - The Future of Video With A16Z's Connie Chan

33:20

Connie Chan, from Andreessen Horowitz, talking about: Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video

Sponsors:

Techmeme Ride Home
11 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 12/11 - Disney+ Is About to Get a Bit More Expensive

18:25

Disney+ is about to get a bit more expensive, but you’re also gonna get a lot more stuff to watch. Are we in a tech IPO bubble? X64 emulation comes to Windows. Apple whispers that it will likely be dropping Qualcomm like it dropped Intel. And of course, the weekend longreads...

Techmeme Ride Home
10 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 12/10 – The Big Facebook Antitrust Cases, Explained

17:45

I try to give you the outlines of the Facebook antitrust thing, and what it might mean for tech. Airbnb makes its market debut. Crunchyroll finds a safe home away from AT&T. I bet folks at HBO are jealous. Boston Dynamics finds a new guardian as well, that hopefully can ...

Techmeme Ride Home
09 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 12/09 – FireEye Says It Got Hacked By A Nation State

19:05

FireEye says it got hacked by a nation state. Microsoft’s cloud gaming is coming to iOS in the spring. Samsung’s unpacked event is coming in about a month, and we already got plenty of leaks about the phones we expect to see. Is Apple’s self-driving project still on track? A...

Techmeme Ride Home
08 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 12/08 – Apple’s $549 AirPods Max

17:06

Say hello to AirPods Max. Cloudflare and Apple have developed a new internet privacy protocol. Google’s Stadia is finally flipping the switch on one of its biggest selling points. Uber is exiting the self-driving sweepstakes, but what does that mean for its future? And more ...

Techmeme Ride Home
07 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 12/7 – ARMpocalypse Soon For The Entire Mac Lineup?

19:42

Apple isn’t wasting any time when it comes to ARM-ing up its entire Mac lineup, according to Mark Gurman. Wish is about to go public too. Airbnb and DoorDash are lifting their ranges. Is email signatures a bigger market than I ever imagined? And how drone deliveries might ch...

Techmeme Ride Home
05 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Peter Kafka on Media, Hollywood, Substack and TikTok

29:29

As promised, here’s Recode’s Peter Kafka, the dean of the media reporters, someone we should have had on the podcast a long time before this. Do checkout his podcast, Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

Sponsors:

Techmeme Ride Home
04 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 12/04 – CRACK! Warners Blows Up The (Traditional) Hollywood Business Model

18:25

Another monumental crack across the land as Warner Brothers has maybe signaled the death of the business model Hollywood has relied on for 100 years. Is Stripe signaling it wants to completely rewire the global monetary system? Have Chinese scientists achieved Quantum Suprem...

Techmeme Ride Home
03 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 12/03 – A Law To Turn Crypto Basic?

16:50

A new bill could regulate crypto in a way that crypto folks say would defeat the point of decentralization. Facebook antitrust could be coming next week. Loon is the first to turn the skies over to artificial intelligence. Hackers are targeting the vaccine rollout. And now, ...

Techmeme Ride Home
02 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 12/2 – A Salesforce/Slack Deal Analysis

17:51

A full analysis of the huge Salesforce/Slack deal. What HPE leaving Silicon Valley means, even if only symbolically. Qualcomm’s new flagship Snapdragon chip. All the announcements from AWS re:Invent. A smartwatch with a 9 day battery life and putting holograms right on your ...

Techmeme Ride Home
01 Dec 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 12/01 - Amazon Launches EC2 Mac Instances

18:06

Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances. Don’t call it Libra. At least, not the Libra Association. Is Samsung thinking about discontinuing the Galaxy Note line? Why DeepMind solving the protein folding problem is such a big deal. Are VR and AR about to blend? And the interesting c...

Techmeme Ride Home
30 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 11/30 – DoorDash’s IPO Seems To Be Cresting The Wave

17:02

DoorDash lines up for its IPO and seems to be cresting the wave perfectly. Airbnb is right behind it, swelling a bit as well. Salesforce looks like it will be buying Slack as soon as tomorrow. The UK finally, officially bans Huawei. The monster computer display I want very b...

Techmeme Ride Home
25 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 11/25 – The Blue Checkmarks Are Returning To Twitter

18:59

Twitter is revving the little blue checkmark engine back up, but it will work slightly differently than before. Stripe is either already impossibly big, or not nearly as big as it should be, depending on your point of view. Are you ready to speculate about the next generatio...

Techmeme Ride Home
24 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 11/24 – Apple’s Head Of Global Security Indicted On Bribery Charges

15:23

Apple’s head of global security is indicted on bribery charges. But… it’s a little nuanced. Facebook turned back the dial on divisive news stories after the election. Forget Substack; why OnlyFans might be the biggest story in terms of creator platforms right now. How Elon M...

Techmeme Ride Home
23 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 11/23 - Snapchat Launches Spotlight, A TikTok Clone

18:22

Cloning Snapchat isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Cloning TikTok. Even Snapchat has joined the bandwagon with Spotlight. Are people fleeing ads in feeds because the market is saturated? I break down all of last week’s big moves in Digital Media. And why the Covid Tracking Project deserves a friggin Nobel Prize.

Sponsors:

Links:

Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators (TechCrunch)
Facebook Ads Could Be Reaching Saturation Point (WSJ)
BuzzFeed to Acquire HuffPost in Stock Deal With Verizon Media (WSJ)
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism (NYTimes)
Bots Grade Your Kids’ Schoolwork—and They’re Often Wrong (WSJ)
Data Heroes of Covid Tracking Project Are Still Filling U.S. Government Void (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Techmeme Ride Home
21 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Office Hours With Chris Messina

01:20:34

A deep-dive conversation with hashtag inventor Chris Messina about what makes good product design, how to Product Hunt effectively, and his unique advice about finding success in the Tech Industry.

Sponsors:

Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vekRLZcnfpU

Techmeme Ride Home
20 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 11/20 – Facebook And Apple Trade Schoolyard Taunts

19:22

Facebook and Apple are calling each other names again. “Privacy Thief!” “Monopolist!” And why we might see more of this in the coming years. Roblox files maybe the most exciting S-1 of this IPO batch. Stadia is going to work around the App Store too. Another big milestone cr...

Techmeme Ride Home
19 Nov 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 11/19 – Google Pay Pivots In An Interesting Way

20:14

A major strategy shift for Google Pay might be a big deal. But a minor shift in YouTube monetization is the same old, same old. Apple pays to settle an investigation into iPhone throttling. Affirm files for its IPO. Apple Silicon continues to absolutely wow people, and by th...