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Mon. 08/22 – Elon Musk Raising Prices Just For Fun Aug 22, 2022

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Amazon continues to be serious about becoming your healthcare provider. Elon Musk is raising prices, I guess cause he can. Confirmation that Sam Bankman-Fried does indeed have a mountain of money. I continue to worry about stablecoins and contagion. And the kids are using FindMy as a new sort of social network.

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Fri. 08/19 – The Biggest Google Search Algo Change In Years? Aug 19, 2022

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Looks like Evan Spiegel is retrenching in his dreams of making Snap primarily a camera company. Are we about to see the biggest Google Search algorithm change in years? Does TikTok effectively have a keystroke logger, and will this lead to more calls to crack down on them? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone (WSJ)
Google search updates will prioritize real reviews over clickbait (The Verge)
New Google Helpful Content Update To Change SEO Much Like Panda Did (Search Engine Roundtable)
TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns (TechCrunch)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari (WSJ)
The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars (Intelligencer)
Streaming Is Starting to Look A Lot Like Cable TV (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Woman Pictured In The Viral 'Girl Explaining' Meme Explains The Origins And Her Reaction To Sudden Internet Fame (Know Your Meme News)
How Nokia Ringtones Became The First Viral Earworms (The Verge)

Thu. 08/18 – Does Mark Zuckerberg Have No Taste? Aug 18, 2022

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Why the date of Apple’s iPhone event is interesting. Why Netflix will take away downloads for its ad-tier. Is the VPN built into iOS a lie? Streaming has finally slain linear television. Cameo will let you actually call celebrities. And does Mark Zuckerberg have no aesthetic taste?

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Apple Targets Sept. 7 for iPhone 14 Launch in Flurry of New Devices (Bloomberg)
Netflix’s Ad-Supported Plan Will Block Downloads of Shows, Films (Bloomberg)
VPNs on iOS are a scam (Michael Horowitz)
U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says (Variety)
Windows 11’s widgets can now trigger notifications on your taskbar (The Verge)
Cameo Now Lets You Have 10-Minute Calls With Celebs (Gizmodo)
Does Mark Zuckerberg Not Understand How Bad His Metaverse Looks? (Forbes)

Wed. 08/17 – “Anti Party” Technology Aug 17, 2022

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Cracking down on house parties as a service. Apple makes moves to diversify the supply chain. Another worrying datapoint from the semiconductor industry. Have the banks been using WhatsApp to avoid scrutiny from regulators? And can large language models make our dreams of robot butlers a reality?

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Tue. 08/16 – Was The Twilio Breach A Route Into Signal? Aug 16, 2022

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Was the Twilio breach really about hacking into Signal users? Apple’s serious about returning to the office. Tired: a global chip shortage. Wired: a global chip glut? Amazon says the FTC is harassing its executives. And how far can Uber go to raise prices?

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Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach (TechCrunch)
Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays (Bloomberg)
Chipmakers’ Pandemic Boom Turns to Bust as Recession Looms (Bloomberg)
Twitter Has to Give Musk Only One Bot Checker's Data: Its Ex-Product Head (Bloomberg)
Amazon accuses FTC of harassing executives including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy (FT)
Walmart+ members will soon get Paramount+ streaming as part of their subscription (Engadget)
Uber Raises Prices by About 5% in London to Attract More Drivers (Bloomberg)

Mon. 08/15 – Adam Neumann To Take Another Crack At Real Estate Aug 15, 2022

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Galaxy Digital shows Elon Musk real reasons to terminate an acquisition deal. a16z is making its biggest ever single investment. You’ll never guess with whom. Snap has more than a million paying subscribers. Cable Internet is losing subscribers for the first time ever. And that time Apple tried to talk Facebook into creating a subscription version of its services.

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Galaxy Digital terminates its acquisition of BitGo (The Block)
Unity rejects AppLovin's takeover bid, to go ahead with ironSource buyout (Reuters)
Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer (NYTimes/DealBook)
Court Documents Confirm Xbox One Sold Less Than Half PS4 Numbers (GameLuster)
Snapchat+ Tops 1 Million Paying Customers, Adds Four New Features (Variety)
Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever (NextTV)
The Secret Talks That Could Have Prevented the Apple vs. Facebook War (WSJ)

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(Portfolio Profile) Mesha Aug 14, 2022

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Smart money management for web3 organizations.

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(TWTR SPC) Are We In A Recession @noahpinion ? Aug 13, 2022

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We speak today with Bloomberg Economics columnist Noah Smith. Are we in a recession? Are we in store for an actual shooting war with China? Is bitcoin due for one more big pump? Come for all of that, and stick around for Chris and I to hit some stories that fell through the cracks this week, like Google’s ad campaign against iMessage.

Fri. 08/12 – How Do We Feel About Arresting Open-Source Developers? Aug 12, 2022

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Dutch authorities have arrested a developer related to Tornado Cash. But is there a grey area here that is a bit messy? LinkedIn seems ready to go all in on the creator and influencer economy. Apple seems to have confidence that there’s not going to be a slowdown in iPhone sales. And of course, the weekend Longreads suggestions.

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Suspected Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam (The Block)
LinkedIn rolls out new tools to give creators more ways to share visual content (TechCrunch)
Apple Expects to Sustain iPhone Sales in 2022 as Market Slows (Bloomberg)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

How Did Two Unknown Latin Music Operators Make $23 Million From YouTube? The IRS Says They Stole It (Billboard)
Tornado Cash Crackdown Shows Limits of Regulating Cryptocurrency Services (WSJ)
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (ArsTechnica)
New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network (AWS Blog)
The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (Wired)
The End of Manual Transmission (The Atlantic)

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Thu. 08/11 – Disney Half (Plus Ads) Aug 11, 2022

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Disney embraces inflation because it kind of has to. How Facebook and Instagram are sneakily still tracking you, even after Apple’s ATT changes. The FCC has rejected SpaceX for a big rural broadband deal. And where the teens are hanging out online, these days. You kind of know the answer, but the data is still interesting.

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Disney+ Ad Plan Price and Launch Date Set — Along With Fee Hikes for Disney+ Premium, Hulu (Variety)
Cisco hacked by Yanluowang ransomware gang, 2.8GB allegedly stolen (BleepingComputer)
CISA warns of Windows and UnRAR flaws exploited in the wild (BleepingComputer)
iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser (Felix Krause)
FCC denies Starlink’s application for $885M subsidy (TechCrunch)
Ethereum's final proof-of-stake 'test merge' is live on Goerli (The Block)
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 (PEW Research Center)

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