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07 May 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 05/07 – Do Lyft Earnings Mean Ride Hailing As An Industry Might Survive?

Zoom makes its first acquisition, Google Authenticator now makes it easier to switch phones, Lyft earnings gives hopes to the ride hailing industry, new Sonos gear and a deep dive into Facebook’s new Oversight Board. Sponsors: Tibco.com/ride ExpressVPN.com/techmeme Links:...

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06 May 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 05/06 – Disney+ Is Saving Mickey’s Bacon At The Moment

New Surface Gos, New Surface Books, New Surface Headphones and the Surface Buds finally arrive. The rumored layoffs come to Uber and Airbnb. Disney+ is saving Disney’s bacon at the moment. And why Peloton is one of those companies having a positive Corona moment. Sponsors: ...

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05 May 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 05/05 – UK’s Contact Tracing App Won’t Work In the Background

The virtual WWDC begins June 22! The UK hasn’t played by Google and Apple’s rules and it seems like their contact tracing app is failing because of that. And yet, are Google and Apple making decisions above their station? Uber might be bailing out Lime. Microsoft is reconsid...

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04 May 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 05/04 - Usable Keyboards Return to the 13-inch MacBook Pro

Usable keyboards return to the 13-inch MacBook Pro. What is going on at Amazon? Jio Platforms gets another huge investment. Another potential blockbuster acquisition in the Israeli transport-tech space. And can the Apple watch help with Covid-19? Sort of. Let me explain. Spo...

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01 May 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 05/01 - Sometime Sanity Wins (ICANN Edition)

ICANN finally does the right thing on the whole .org mess. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. Could Amazon face actual perjury charges? Reddit walks back those chat rooms. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: MintMobile.com/ride Links: A Private Equit...

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30 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 04/30 – Don’t Fight The Tape (Tech Earnings Edition)

Four big earnings reports for four big tech companies, but we’ll leave that to the end. Intel launches a new flagship clip line, Andreessen Horowitz launches a new crypto fund, Zoom fesses up on MAUs, and Reddit goes old school with chat rooms. Sponsors: Tovala (text ...

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29 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 04/29 – Here Come the Tech Earnings…

The biggest tech earnings season in a while kicks off and so far, it’s so good for Alphabet. Spotify says its holding up as well. Though Uber might lay off 20% of its workforce, Ford is delaying its self-driving road map, and that has me asking again, why isn’t this the perf...

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28 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 04/28 – Deepfakes As A Killer (Advertising) App

Shopify unveils its own shopping app. DJI unveils the Mavic Air 2. The Pixel Buds 2 finally arrive. Tesla pushes out a new auto driving update. What really accounts for Magic Leap’s crash and burn? And why deepfakes are probably going to be in a bunch of commercials soon.

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Shopify launches Shop, a new mobile app (TechCrunch)
NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan (BBC News)
DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time (The Verge)
GOOGLE PIXEL BUDS REVIEW: SECOND TIME’S THE CHARM (The Verge)
Tesla says cars can automatically stop for traffic lights (Associated Press)
Magic Leap's $2.6 billion bait and switch (TechCrunch)
Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (The Blog of Palmer Luckey)
An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future (NYTimes)

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27 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 04/27 – It’s Always A Good Day When Your Starship Doesn’t Explode

iPhone production might be delayed, but the launch might not be, and actually, that might bounce in Apple’s favor. Autocomplete for coding. A little more background on John Stankey. Progress on my robot burrito delivery. And a crucial SpaceX rocket passes a key test by final...

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26 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus Bonus) The Alfred P. Sloan Era of the Internet Era

This piece: John Luttig's When Tailwinds Vanish caused me to go on a random jag this afternoon. Since I had nothing better to do than post it to Medium, I read it into the microphone too...

PS: the medium piece I wrote up is here.

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25 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Why Shopify Is #Winning With James McLeod

As you’re about to hear, I’ve wanted to do a deep dive episode discussion on Shopify and how they’re suddenly the big up and coming, potential tech behemoth… arguably the most successful tech IPO of the last five years; seemingly the only company that can challenge Amazon in ecommerce… so when James McLeod from the Financial Post got in touch wanting to talk about Shopify, it was like someone was reading my mind. You’ll see why I’ve found the Shopify story so interesting because… well, we get right into it…

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24 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 04/24 - Google Battens Down The Hatches

AT&T’s CEO rides off into the sunset is both a surprise and not a surprise at all. Whole bunch of interesting Google news all at once. More on that iOS zero-day, more data on tech industry hiring and layoffs, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: ...

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23 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 04/23 – Privacy Hypocrisy From France?

Custom Mac chips by 2021? Robot nurses already in hospitals? Bill Gurley into the sunset? Why some people are accusing France of digital privacy hypocrisy, and an interesting raise in the remote work space. Specifically: remote whiteboarding. Sponsors: F5.com/ride ...

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22 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 04/22 – Facebook’s Big Play In India

Huge Facebook investment in India. Tech earnings season is back, and this promises to be a super interesting one for all the reasons you can imagine. Two iPhone zero days found out in the wild. Patreon does do layoffs but says creator numbers are holding up. And a roundup of...

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21 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 04/21 – Sonos Radio

Sonos launches its own streaming radio service, huge trove of Facebook accounts purchased on the dark web, Google goes with free to compete with Amazon in product search, Kickstarter is seeing a huge drop in project launches and we finally have a date for the HBO Max launch....

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20 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 04/20 – Well, Your iPad IS A Laptop Now, Which Means Bigger And Heavier

Paging Farmville: Facebook takes another stab at owning mobile gaming. Rupert Murdoch's longstanding wish is granted. Dropbox had longstanding doubts about its erstwhile partner Zoom. More data on the health of tech investing, and the first reviews of the iPad as laptop are…...

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18 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Who's Right About The Economy? Wall Street Or Silcon Valley? With Alex Wilhelm @alex

I wasn’t supposed to do a weekend episode this weekend. I’ve got one scheduled for next week that I still need to record. But a few days ago, I saw Alex Wilhelm at TechCrunch tweet that he was doing a piece about why everyone in Silicon Valley and the VC world and the startu...

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17 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 04/17 - Y Combinator Gets Picky

Microsoft has some AI tech that can catch bugs 99% of the time, Y Combinator is going to be more picky about who it invests in, macOS is getting a smarter battery management system for your laptop, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency ...

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16 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 04/16 - The Video Conferencing Space Is So Hot, We’re Getting Steamy M&A Action Now.

The video conferencing space is so hot, we’re getting steamy M&A action now. Apple wants to get stylish with over the ear headphones. Robinhood bucks a couple of trends with a new round. And is Facebook’s Libra just gonna drop like a stone? Sponsors: Kiwico.com/ride Dou...

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15 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 04/15 – New iPhone SE!

Hellooooo new iPhone SE. Airbnb raises another debt round. Amazon kneecaps affiliate marketers. Now it’s Medium’s turn to face fake news (or, at least, fake experts) scrutiny. And why Houseparty is now, officially, another unlikely winner of the Coronavirus moment.

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Apple announces the new $399 iPhone SE for 2020 (The Verge)
Airbnb raises another $1bn (Financial Times)
Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives publishers a cut of sales (CNBC)
Github is now free for all teams (TechCrunch)
Washington AG sues Facebook for violating state political ad law (GeekWire)
How Medium became the best and worst place for coronavirus news (The Verge)
Houseparty Vies With Zoom to Be Homebound Chatters’ App of Choice (Bloomberg)

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14 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue, 04/14 - Seems Like Old Times! An Actual Smartphone Launch Event!

We have an actual smartphone launch event to report on! Google is apparently close to powering it’s devices with its own custom-design silicon. Microsoft Teams is getting closer to Zoom in a good, feature-wise way. An update on the venture funding environment and new gaming ...

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13 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 04/13 – Back To The iPhone 5 Design Future?

Deeper dives into that Google/Apple contact tracing project, solid rumors about the new iPhone design, the telecom industry might lose $25 billion dollars this year and international roaming charges are to blame, and an open source live streaming and video streaming app that...

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11 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

(Bonus) Tech Giant Psychoanalysis With Alex Kantrowitz

I couldn’t tell you the amount of times, over the last two years, I’ve quoted pieces from Alex Kantrowitz on this show. Hundreds of times? Easy? Alex is the senior tech reporter at Buzzfeed News, and, while I don’t have favorite people to quote from on this show (I shouldn’t...

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10 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 04/10 – HUGE: Apple and Google Join Forces For Coronavirus Contact Tracing

Amazon is creating a system to test its own employees for Coronavirus, Google creates a system to help with unemployment claims, one more attempt to keep track of the Google messaging branding mess, more evidence Zuckerberg really is jealous of Instagram, and, of course, the...

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09 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 04/09 – Why The Pandemic Might Be Long-Term Good For The Internet

Disney+ continues to blow the doors off the place. Good old phone calls are back, along with the Desktop web. Don’t expect to see new emoji for a while. Stadia is free for anyone with a Gmail account, COBAL skills are in high demand and why the pandemic might be a long-term ...

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08 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Wed. 04/08 – The Desktop Web Is Back (for the time being…)

Jack Dorsey literally puts his money to work for Coronavirus relief. More details on that Airbnb lifeline raise. Details on an interesting telemedicine raise. Netflix has increased parental controls, Google is pushing a mandatory new setup for Android development and why the...

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07 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Tue. 04/07 - The Latest Startup Gunning For Gmail

WhatsApp wants to make it harder for things to go viral. Airbnb buys some runway. Foursquare merges with another location data company. Checking in with Masa Son. And the latest startup to say it wants to blow up email and unseat Gmail.

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WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news (The Guardian)
Airbnb is raising $1 billion amid fallout from coronanvirus (CNBC)
Foursquare Merges With Factual, Another Location-Data Provider (WSJ)
Masayoshi Son Talks WeWork, Vision Fund and Softbank Under Siege (Forbes)
Pixel April updates land, bringing eyes-open face unlock setting to the Pixel 4 (Android Police)
Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t (KrebsonSecurity)
This tiny startup thinks it can do email better than Google (Protocol)

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06 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Mon. 04/06 – Happy Quibi Day!

Happy Quibi day everybody. Check out your Quick Bites for free while you can! Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is a hella powerful laptop, but that’s apparently why the battery life sucks. And the Covid-related conspiracy theory inspiring people to set cellphone towe...

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03 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Fri. 04/03 - It’s An 80’s Style Free HBO Bonanza!

Tech companies are, in fact, stepping up to track Covid-19. We have a name for the new low-end iPhone. Tesla soars but the Space X Starship doesn’t. Watch some free HBO this weekend, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: No Parking Podcast TinyCapital....

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02 Apr 2020 • Ride Home Media

Thu. 04/02 - Zoom Apologizes And Wow's On DAUs

Zoom apologizes, but also reveals some INSANE growth numbers. Facebook Messenger comes to desktop. YouTube wants to clone TikTok. Apple let’s some people avoid the App Store tax. More gross firings by teleconference and a timely interesting raise.

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A Message to Our Users (Zoom Blog)
Facebook debuts standalone Messenger app on Mac and PC (Engadget)
'Content network effect' makes TikTok tough to copy (TechCrunch)
YouTube Plans ‘Shorts’ to Rival TikTok (The Information)
Apple Lets Some Video Apps Sell Shows Without Taking 30% Cut (Bloomberg)
'It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode' The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar (dot.LA)
Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million (NYTimes)