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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Some investors want Jack out as Twitter CEO. Apple settles a class action lawsuit for half a billion dollars. If you listen regularly, I bet you can guess why some game developers don’t want to work with Stadia. Spotify wants artists to pay to promote their own songs. And AT&T TV is a new way to re-invent the cable bundle. Sponsors: Metalab.co Zapier.com/ride Links: Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO; Pekka Lundmark to take over (TechCrunch) Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey (Bloomberg) Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones (Reuters) Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering, and it's due largely to too few games on its Stadia platform — here's why developers have held back (Business Insider) AT&T TV now available nationwide with Android TV set-top box — and a two-year contract (The Verge) Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us (Bloomberg) The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Disrupts the Industry (NYTimes) Airbnb’s Path to 2020 Stock Listing Imperiled by Coronavirus (Bloomberg) Kuo: iPhone Production Will Not Significantly Improve Until Second Quarter of 2020 (MacRumors) 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 Monday, March 2nd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Some investors want Jack out as Twitter CEO.
0:12.0	Apple settles a class action lawsuit for half a
0:15.1	billion dollars. If you listen regularly I bet you can guess why some game
0:19.3	developers don't want to work with Stadia. Spotify wants artists to pay to promote their own songs and
0:24.0	AT&T TV is a new way to reinvent the cable bundle.
0:28.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Things continue to be looking shaky over at Nokia.
0:36.0	Rajiv Suri is stepping down as Nokia CEO after half a decade.
0:41.0	Pekka Lundmark, who is currently the outgoing president and
0:45.0	CEO of an energy firm called Fortum, has been appointed to replace him as
0:49.7	CEO and president, quoting Tech Crunch.
0:52.6	The networking giant said Surrey had expressed his intention to step down from the
0:56.2	role and that they have been working to formulate a smooth transition.
1:00.6	After 25 years at Nokia, I have wanted to do something different, said Surrey, who will leave
1:05.0	his current position on August 31st and continue to serve as an advisor to the Nokia board
1:09.4	until January 1st next year.
1:11.8	Lundmark is expected to start in his new role on September 1st of this year.
1:15.9	The announcement comes days after Bloomberg News reported that Nokia was exploring a range of
1:20.8	strategic options including selling portions of its business assets
1:24.8	to potential merger deals, end quote.
1:27.2	And suddenly some turmoil for Twitter.
1:33.0	Sources told Bloomberg over the weekend that Elliot Management has taken a sizable stake in Twitter
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