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Tech Brew Ride Home

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Now you can’t get Facebook on new Huawei phones, Barnes and Noble waives the white flag, WarnerMedia abandons that tiered streaming plan idea, Walmart wants to deliver directly to your refrigerator and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Tiny.website Pantheon.io/ride Vistaprint.com/RIDE Links: Exclusive: Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones (Reuters) Elliott Management to acquire Barnes & Noble for $683 million (CNBC) Amazon’s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements (Motherboard) AT&T Eyes $16- to $17-a-Month Streaming Service in Strategy Shift (WSJ) Walmart employees will soon deliver groceries directly into your fridge (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Solotshi, The Creator Of Encryption Software E4M And TrueCrypt (InvestInBlockchain.com) The Stanford connections behind Latin America's multibillion-dollar startup renaissance (TechCrunch) When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire (The Atlantic) Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them? (NYTimes) The Big Challenge for Policy Makers: Policing American Tech Giants (WSJ) Not Your Daddy’s Regulation: Tech Giants Face A Complicated Reckoning In Washington (BuzzFeed.news) The Day When Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, June 7th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Now you can't get Facebook on new Huawei phones. Barnes and Noble waves the
0:16.2	white flag. Warner Media abandons that tier streaming plan idea. Walmart
0:21.8	wants to deliver directly to your refrigerator and the weekend long
0:26.0	reads suggestions.
0:27.4	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:31.9	So the whole Huawei mess just keeps rolling on and on.
0:36.0	Facebook is apparently no longer allowing pre-installation of its Facebook,
0:40.7	WhatsApp, or Instagram apps on new Huawei phones.
0:45.0	Quoting from Reuters, customers who already have Huawei phones will still be able to use its
0:50.9	apps and receive updates, Facebook told Reuters.
0:54.0	But new Huawei phones will no longer be able to have Facebook,
0:57.1	WhatsApp, and Instagram apps pre-install.
1:00.4	Smart phone vendors often enter business deals to pre-install popular apps such as Facebook.
1:05.0	Apps including Twitter and booking.com also come pre-installed on Huaweiphones in many markets.
1:10.0	Twitter declined to comment and booking did not respond to a request.
1:15.4	The move by Facebook dampens the sales outlook for Huawei, whose smartphone business became
1:20.7	its biggest revenue generator last year, powered by strong growth in Europe and
1:24.4	Asia."
1:27.1	And on top of that, sources are saying that Google is pushing the Trump administration
1:31.9	to exempt it from a ban on exports to
1:35.2	Huawei warning that it could compromise national security. You'll recall that the
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