Mon. 04/20 – Well, Your iPad IS A Laptop Now, Which Means Bigger And Heavier

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Paging Farmville: Facebook takes another stab at owning mobile gaming. Rupert Murdoch's longstanding wish is granted. Dropbox had longstanding doubts about its erstwhile partner Zoom. More data on the health of tech investing, and the first reviews of the iPad as laptop are… mixed. Sponsors: Plume.com/techmeme Mintmobile.com/ride Links: Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming (NYTimes) Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to 'level playing field' with traditional news media (ABC News Australia) Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox (NYTimes) With Shut-In Kids Flocking to Streaming, Disney Channel Retools (Bloomberg) The Q1 2020 Global VC Report: Funding Slowly Impacted By Coronavirus (Crunchbase News) Private Equity Sees $20 Billion of Tech Deals Shelved by Virus (Bloomberg) MAGIC KEYBOARD FOR THE IPAD PRO REVIEW: THE BEST WAY TO TURN AN IPAD INTO A LAPTOP (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, April 20th, 2020.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.7	Paging Farmville.
0:10.0	Facebook takes another stab at owning mobile gaming.
0:13.0	Rupert Murdoch's long-standing wish is granted.
0:16.0	Dropbox has longstanding doubts about its erstwhile partner Zoom.
0:20.0	More data on the health of tech investing and the first reviews of the iPad as a laptop are
0:26.8	mixed. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:37.9	Facebook is launching a dedicated app for gaming which will let users create and watch live game streams. It's called the Facebook gaming app and it's available right now on Android,
0:44.4	although at the time of this writing, it's not exactly clear to me yet if Apple has approved it for iOS.
0:50.9	Quoting the New York Times. The free app caps several years of investment at Facebook, which said more
0:56.7	than 700 million of its 2.5 billion monthly users already engage with gaming content.
1:02.4	The app is designed largely for creating and
1:04.5	watching live gameplay, a fast-growing online sector where Facebook is
1:08.2	battling Amazon's Twitch, Google's YouTube and Microsoft's mixer services.
1:13.6	Although Facebook was a top gaming platform
1:15.8	a decade ago during the Farmville era,
1:17.9	the company hasn't been a dominant force in recent years.
1:20.9	In the game streaming market,
1:22.3	Facebook is number three in total hours watched behind
1:24.7	YouTube and Twitch, according to Stream Labs.
1:28.3	Viewers currently watch Facebook game streaming with the core Facebook app and on the new app in the developing markets where
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