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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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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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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