Thu. 07/21 – Did Tesla Trigger The Crypto Crash?

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too. Did Tesla cause the crypto crash? And DALL-E 2 is now more widely available. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B (TechCrunch) Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge) Minecraft team says NFTs and blockchain are, well, blocked (Polygon) Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg) Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information) Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt) @CryptoKaleo Tweet TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Bride Home for Thursday, July 21st, 2022.
0:07.6	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	Amazon is acquiring actual Doctor's Offices.
0:12.4	Facebook splits the news feed to make it more tick-tock. requiring actual Doctor's offices.
0:12.5	Facebook splits the news feed to make it more tick-tocky,
0:15.5	Minecraft for swears, NFTs.
0:18.6	The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too.
0:21.5	Did Tesla cause the crypto crash and Dahl E2 is now more widely available.
0:26.6	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:28.6	Well, jeez, after weeks of slow summer news days, all the news has dropped all at once this
0:40.1	morning.
0:41.1	Let's get to as much as we can without hopefully doing a, you know, two-hour
0:44.7	episode. First up, there have been a lot of signs lately that Amazon is exploring
0:49.7	health care as a growth industry to get into, no bigger sign than this.
0:54.7	Amazon announced this morning that it will acquire primary health care provider
0:58.0	one medical for about 3.9 billion dollars in an all- cash deal, quoting Tech Crunch.
1:04.4	Amazon's interest in health care and being a major player in that industry is taking
1:08.4	one big step forward today.
1:10.3	The company has just announced that it intends to buy one medical a primary care provider
1:14.4	that leverages in person digital and virtual interactions in its services.
1:18.8	One medical went public in 2020 and Amazon said it will be paying $18 a share for the company
1:24.0	working out to an enterprise value of $3.9 billion. Amazon is so far not saying much
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