Fri. 02/22 - The Most Acquisitive Unicorns

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Facebook is shutting down its controversial Onavo app, Google’s streaming gaming service might get some hardware to go along with it, the most acquisitive unicorns and the weekend longreads suggestions. Here’s what you missed today in the world of tech. Sponsors: The Castro Podcast App Legacybox.com/ride Lighstream.com/ride Links: Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo (TechCrunch) Samsung will extend Bixby button remapping to premium Galaxy phones running Android Pie (The Verge) Source: Google plans to announce long-rumored ‘Yeti’ hardware at GDC event (9to5Google) Airbnb, Automattic, And Pinterest Top Rank Of Most Acquisitive Unicorns (Crunchbase News) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Late Night Linux Podcast HOW APPLE’S ENTERPRISE APP PROGRAM BECAME THE NEW WILD WEST OF MOBILE APPS (The Verge) “SHE NEVER LOOKS BACK”: INSIDE ELIZABETH HOLMES’S CHILLING FINAL MONTHS AT THERANOS (Vanity Fair) It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town (NYTimes) Guidemaster: The least-awful Android phones (Ars Technica) The curse of the Twitter reply guy (Mashable) YouTube Story 1: Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers (The Guardian) YouTube Story 2: YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Theory Boom. Can It Be Contained? (NYTimes) YouTube Story 3: How YouTube helps flat-earthers organize (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme Ride Home for Friday, February 22nd 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.6	Today Facebook is shutting down its controversial a Navajo app.
0:13.7	Google's streaming gaming service might get some hardware to go along with it.
0:17.6	The most acquisitive unicorns and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:22.6	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:25.6	Facebook has removed its a naveau v p p napn app from the Google Play Store. Not only that, Facebook will immediately stop
0:37.0	pulling data from users who use the Onavo app for market research and will eventually shut down the app entirely.
0:45.6	The Onavo app was the one that was fingered in Tech Crunch's blockbuster investigation
0:51.1	recently at least sort of indirectly quoting from Tech
0:54.5	crunch. Facebook has also ceased to recruit new users for the Facebook research
0:58.5	app that still runs on Android but was forced off of iOS by Apple after we
1:02.0	reported that it violated Apple's enterprise certificate
1:04.8	program for employee-only apps. Existing Facebook research app studies will continue to run,
1:10.6	though.
1:11.6	Anavo billed itself as a way to limit apps from using background data and use a secure
1:16.8	VPN network for your personal info, but also noted it would collect the quote, time you spend using
1:22.1	apps, mobile, and Wi-Fi data you use. the A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the change and provided this statement, quote,
1:34.0	market research helps companies build better products for people.
1:37.0	We are shifting our focus to reward-based market research, which means we're going to end the
1:42.0	a novel program, end quote. research, which means we're going to end the Enavo program."
1:43.4	Again, Facebook acquired Enavo in 2013 for around $200 million.
1:49.4	It later came out that the data from the Enavo app was instrumental including Facebook into the rise in
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