Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, February 11th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Facebook wants to copy Clubhouse, naturally. And meanwhile meanwhile I got to try out Twitter Spaces just

last night did Microsoft make a run at acquiring Pinterest and would the government

even let that happen is Peacock the sick man of the streaming wars and an

interesting raise around the creator economy. Here's what you miss today in the world

of tech. Surprising almost nobody sources are telling Mike Isaac in the New York Times that

Facebook is building an audio chat product currently in its earliest stages

of development to what do you know?

Clone Clubhouse, quote,

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive has been interested in audio communication

forms, said the people with knowledge of the matter and he appeared in the

clubhouse app on Sunday to chat about augmented and virtual reality.

Facebook executives have ordered employees to create a similar product said the

people who are not authorized to speak publicly.

The product is in its earliest stages of development they said and the product's code name could change.

We've been connecting people through audio and video technologies for many years and are always

exploring new ways to improve that experience for people. Emily Haskell, a Facebook

spokeswoman said, end quote. One important thing to take note of here, Andresen Horowitz is Clubhouse's big investor and Mark Andresen himself is on Facebook's board of directors.

If this was five years ago, I'd say

slam dunk that would mean that

clubhouse was going to get acquired by Facebook probably tomorrow.

But in this regulatory environment,

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