Fri. 05/15 – Facebook Buys GIPHY

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The US strikes at Huawei again. Apple acquires a VR startup and there’s conflicting rumors on those AR glasses. Is Silicon Valley really about to become a ghost town? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Classified Ad: IbisWritingAcademy.com Links: U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers as China eyes retaliation (Reuters) Scoop: Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million (Axios) Apple Acquires Startup NextVR that Broadcasts VR Content (Bloomberg) Apple’s computerized glasses won’t be ready until 2022 ‘at the earliest,’ top analyst says (Bloomberg) Latest leak has "sleek" Apple Glasses coming out in 2021 instead of 2022 (Apple Insider) Uber’s CEO, a Seasoned Dealmaker, Pursues His Biggest One Yet (Bloomberg) Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August (VentureBeat) Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents (Bloomberg Businessweek) Weekend Longreads: OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic (Elle.com) How Sporcle followed trivia fans from bars to Zoom and built a $2.5M business (Protocol) Founder Of Borders Bookstores, Webvan Returns With Dreams Of Beating Amazon At Food Delivery (Forbes) Inside HBO Max, the $4 Billion Bet to Stand Out in the Streaming Wars (Variety) The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (Wired) Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models (MIT Technology Review) Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar (The Conversation) Link to zoom meeting, 1pm eastern time Saturday: https://zoom.us/j/92079645112 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, May 15th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.0	Facebook buys Jiffy. The U.S. strikes at Huawei again. Apple acquires a VR startup.
0:14.4	Is Silicon Valley really about to become a ghost town?
0:17.6	And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:20.3	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:23.0	The U.S. is banning the sale of semiconductor and semiconductor designs using US software to
0:35.0	Huawei, quoting Reuters. The US Commerce Department said it was amending an
0:39.2	export rule to strategically target Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product
0:44.8	of certain U.S. software and technology.
0:47.3	The reaction from China was Swift, with a report saying it was ready to put U.S. companies
0:51.6	on an unreliable entity list as part of countermeasures in response
0:56.2	to the new limits on Huawei. China's Global Times reported on Friday.
1:00.1	The measures include launching investigations and imposing restrictions on U.S. companies such as Apple,
1:04.3	Cisco, Qualcomm, as well as suspending purchase of Boeing airplanes, the report said, citing a source.
1:11.5	Reuters first reported the news ahead of the Commerce Department's release.
1:15.0	The department said its announcement cuts off Huawei's efforts to undermine U.S. export controls, end quote.
1:21.0	The rule change is a blow to Huawei, the world's number two smartphone maker as well as to Taiwan's Taiwan
1:26.7	semi-conductor manufacturing a major producer of chips for Huawei's high
1:31.2	silicon unit as well as mobile phone rivals Apple and Qualcomm.
1:35.0	Taiwan Semiconductor announced late Thursday it would build a 12 billion
1:39.0	dollar chip factory in the US state of Arizona.
1:42.0	Taiwan Semiconductor said Friday, it is quote,
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