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FCC Commissioner Calls for App Stores to Remove TikTok, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann Announces Plans to Step Down & iPhone Celebrates 15th Anniversary 6/29/22

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CNBC

Business, Technology, Management, Disruptors, Investing, Cnbc, Tech, Faang

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Our anchors begin today’s show looking at the current environment for short sellers with GGV Capital Managing Partner Jeff Richards, and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr joins after publishing a letter calling for Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores. Then, CNBC’s Frank Holland recaps his interview with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam ahead of the company’s investor day, and Greycroft Partner Kamran Ansari offers his perspective on Pinterest as founder and CEO Ben Silbermann announces plans to step down. Next, our Jon Fortt shares highlights from his conversation on the current market turbulence with Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman, and CNBC’s Leslie Picker breaks down the effects of the recent crypto collapse on the broader financial system. CNBC’s Kate Rooney also reports on customers being impacted by crypto company Celsius Network freezing withdrawals. Later, Wall Street Journal Senior Personal Technology Columnist Joanna Stern and CNBC’s Steve Kovach share their insight on Apple as the Journal debuts a new documentary marking the 15th anniversary of the iPhone. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

I'm Deerreboza, and you're listening to CNBC's Tech Check. Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m.

0:06.1

Eastern. Listen in. Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kintania with Deerbosa and

0:11.8

John Ford. Today, put a pin in it. A leadership change at Pinterest. Investors applauding

0:16.9

that decision at first, but shares are off of the highs. Is now the time to buy,

0:21.2

or is there a greater issue with the business model? Plus, could TikTok really be banned

0:25.8

from US app stores? One member of the FCC asking Google and Apple to do just that.

0:31.1

Commissioner Brendan Carr is going to be with us in just a few moments. And then finally,

0:35.0

a big call on the internet sector, J.P. Morgan slashing targets

0:39.0

for 26 names. We're going to tell you which ones they think still have the most upside, D.

0:45.0

First up, Carl, let's turn to a big short in the cloud investor Jim Chanos. He is targeting

0:49.7

data center reeds like digital, realty trust and equinix. This is the industry, next industry,

0:56.2

he says, to fall. Now, these are the funds that own the physical data centers, the giant

1:00.6

warehouses where technology companies actually store the cloud data. Chanos telling the Financial

1:05.2

Times that, quote, the story is that although the cloud is growing, the cloud is their enemy,

1:10.1

not their business. Value is

1:11.5

accruing to those cloud companies and not the brick and mortar legacy data centers. Their

1:15.8

three biggest customers, he says, are becoming their biggest competitors. Those customers,

1:21.0

of course, the cloud giants, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, which Chanoos calls three of the most vicious

1:26.8

competitors in the world. Guys, we've already seen as much from Alphabet, Microsoft, which Chano calls three of the most vicious competitors in the world.

1:28.9

Guys, we've already seen as much from Alphabet earlier this year.

1:32.1

It announced that it was going to invest nearly $10 billion in office space and data centers.

1:37.2

And even in that announcement from CEO Sundar Pichai, he alluded to the idea that he wanted to do it himself.

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