Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, January 28th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today we finally get to the whole Game Stop story, because Robin Hood has frozen trading for some folks looking for fresh tendies.

Apple and Facebook release absolutely killer earnings as expected, but are they about to go to war in

court. Tesla's earnings disappoint and Facebook's Oversight Board issues its

first rulings. Here's what you missed in a wild day of tech.

All right, this whole Wall Street Betts, Game Stop, stock story, is the very definition of a story that got away from me.

I think I told you before that I day traded for about a year in the late 90s.

It's how I earned enough money to launch my first company. Also I cut my teeth

on Raging Bull and Yahoo finance message boards during those years, so I'm used to this sort of shenanigans.

I cut my teeth on it plus I know folks who work on Wall Street

So I think that's why we might even have mentioned Wall Street bets in the past. I know we've discussed the whole kids trading options on Robin Hood thing in the past.

Anyway, this is all to say this whole thing was very much a story that I was aware of,

at least as soon as a week ago today. But even by Monday when this story and the

GameStop stock actually was beginning to blow up I still kind of felt like this was

too esoteric a story even though it had the whole Reddit

angle so there was a tech angle there I just was afraid that it was a story that I

cared overly about and maybe no one else would. Well now of course it's the biggest story in the land and it's been fascinating to me how

absolutely passionately interested people are in this story, like two separate people in my life.

Neither of them in tech, neither of them in finance,

reached out to me separately, out of the blue yesterday,

to talk about this story because they knew I'd be following it.

So to catch you up and give you the latest,

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