Mon. 11/05 - iPad Pro Reviews Are Mixed

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🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Has Amazon decided on the location of its new HQ? What do people think of the new iPad Pros? Why are recently IPO’d tech companies hoarding cash? And why you might want to think twice about taking a selfie in the voting booth tomorrow. Links: Amazon in Late-Stage Talks With Cities Including Crystal City, Va., Dallas, New York City for HQ2 (WSJ) Amazon waives $25 minimum spend to offer free Christmas deliveries for all U.S. customers (Venture Beat) APPLE IPAD PRO REVIEW 2018: THE FASTEST IPAD IS STILL AN IPAD (The Verge) Apple’s first 5G iPhone will arrive in 2020 (Fast Company) YOU TOO CAN BUILD YOUR OWN CHIP – FOR ONLY $30 MILLION (Digits to Dollars) Newly Public Tech Firms Race Back to Market as IPO Frenzy Continues (WSJ) Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) (NYTimes) You can't take a 'ballot selfie' in Illinois, Florida, or 25 other states — see where it's illegal to take a photo in the voting booth (Business Insider) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home from Monday, November 5th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, has Amazon decided on the location of its new HQ.
0:13.0	What do people think of the new iPad pros?
0:16.0	Why are recently IPO tech companies hoarding cash
0:19.0	and why you might want to think twice about taking a selfie in the voting booth tomorrow.
0:24.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.2	Over the weekend there was some serious chatter that Amazon was in heated late stage
0:36.8	talks with several cities still in the running for its so-called HQ2 the new
0:42.4	headquarters it's been shopping around to various
0:44.8	municipalities for a while now. According to various outlets, various sources,
0:50.9	those still in the running include Dallas and New York City, though other
0:55.3	contenders such as Atlanta, Denver, and Toronto have, quote, cooled. A lot of the
1:01.2	chatter, at least on Saturday Saturday surrounded Crystal City, Virginia, which is outside of
1:06.2	Washington, D.C., where Jeff Bezos has a house, and where, of course, his Washington Post
1:11.8	newspaper is based.
1:14.0	According to the journal, quote,
1:15.9	negotiations with the top candidates are likely in slightly different phases
1:19.9	according to the knowledgeable people.
1:22.6	In Northern Virginia, Amazon is negotiating
1:24.7	with government officials on incentives.
1:26.9	While it's also talking with JBG Smith properties,
1:31.3	a publicly traded real estate investment trust about the Crystal City real estate
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