Mon. 03/11 - How TikTok Is Different

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🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Nvidia buys Mellanox, Tesla reverses course, a handy primer on how TikTok is different, and we check in on the smart takes from last week’s big stories. Subscribe to the Premium, Ad-Free Podcast Feed! Sponsors: DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Tiny.website Links: Nvidia to Buy Mellanox for $6.9 Billion in Data Center Push (Bloomberg) Landlords to Tesla: You’re Still on the Hook for Your Store Leases (WSJ) How TikTok Is Rewriting the World (NYTimes) Facebook vs. Apple (Slate) Facebook has a big, terrifying dream to be the communication backbone for the Western world (Business Insider) ELIZABETH WARREN WANTS TO BREAK UP APPLE, TOO (The Verge) Elizabeth Warren Wants To Break Up Amazon, Google And Facebook; But Does Her Plan Make Any Sense? (TechDirt) How to Enable Dark Mode Nearly Everywhere It's Available Right Now (Gizmodo) 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 Monday, March 11th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.6	Today, Inv video buys Melanox. Tesla reverses course, a handy primer on how Tik-Toc is different, and we check
0:16.8	in on the smart takes from last week's big stories. Here's what you missed today in the world of
0:21.5	tech. Invidia has agreed to buy Melanox Technologies for 6.9 billion dollars, offering Melanox shareholders $125 per share in an all-cash
0:37.2	deal. This is NVIDIA's biggest ever acquisition. If you've never heard of Melanox, don't worry.
0:45.2	Neither had I.
0:46.6	The American Israeli company makes chips used to speed the flow of information across data center servers,
0:53.6	and apparently the bidding for Melanox was, quote,
0:56.8	very competitive.
0:58.5	Invidia beat out a slate of rivals,
1:00.8	including Intel, to snap up the company. Why?
1:05.3	Quoting from Bloomberg.
1:06.9	For NVIDIA, it's all about, quote, accelerating momentum for one of Chief Executive
1:11.4	Officer Jensen Huang's most successful initiatives.
1:15.0	The company's founder built a multi-billion dollar business in under three years by persuading
1:19.6	owners of data centers that his graphics chips are the right solution for processing the increasingly
1:24.8	large amounts of information needed for artificial intelligence work, such as image recognition.
1:31.3	The data center is more important than ever, Huang said in an interview.
1:35.1	This combination allows us to innovate faster, end quote.
1:39.0	For even more on that, quoting again from Bloomberg from later in the piece,
1:42.8	the growing reams of data generated
1:44.8	means work on AI and large databases
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