Facebook pushes e-commerce business, Uber in trouble, eyes on Amazon Media Group… and a prediction: Sonos gets acquired

Pivot

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Technology, News Commentary, News, Tech News

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott talk about Facebook earnings during the pandemic and the company's push into e-commerce. They discuss Uber's reported lay-offs and other issues facing the ride-share company as their longtime CTO steps down. In Listener Mail and fan from New Zealand asks what the US can do to salvage our brand after our failure to deal with COVID-19 effectively. In predictions, Scott says Amazon is about to be the 2nd most valuable company in the world and that Sonos will get acquired. Meanwhile, Kara thinks movie theaters will get bought by and vertically integrated into studio systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.9	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:08.4	And I am nauseous.
0:09.4	You're going to the New York Times to do a podcast.
0:12.3	I brought up the New York Times.
0:14.2	This is just an extension of our relationship.
0:18.6	That's like MSNBC eight Bernie Sanders and then threw up and created this monster called
0:24.4	the New York Times Podcast with Cara Swisher.
0:26.9	Listen to me.
0:27.9	This is just...
0:28.9	Let me just say.
0:30.6	What's it called?
0:31.6	What's it called?
0:32.6	It's called, I love Scott Galaway and other stories of my life.
0:35.2	Yeah.
0:36.2	No.
0:37.2	It has no name.
0:38.2	It has no name yet.
0:39.2	It is unnamed.
0:40.2	Remember how we named Pivot?
0:41.2	So you know what we are?
0:42.2	How do we name Pivot?
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