Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, July 29th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Tech companies dip their toes into vaccine mandate waters.

Facebook, in so many words, says Apple's privacy changes are about to impact their earnings.

Will D.D. take itself private again to please the Chinese government?

Is Peacock doing better than I at least thought it was?

And a crypto startup is sliding into the biggest growth market I've seen in this space yet.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Okay, keeping a watch on Silicon Valley, maybe or maybe not being the leading edge in current COVID times once again.

Google has announced that anyone coming to work at its campuses must be vaccinated

starting in the US and Google will also delay the general return to offices from

September until mid-October. Facebook says it will require its US staff to be

vaccinated before returning to offices this fall, and will work

around medical or other vaccine exemptions.

Twitter closed its New York and San Francisco offices a mere two weeks after reopening them and

paused further office reopening after quote consideration of the

CDC's updated guidelines. Finally in a memo Apple says it plans to restore a mask requirement for staff and customers

at most of its U.S. retail stores beginning today due to rising COVID cases. Let's start with this Apple news and then circle back to the vaccine requirement news, quoting Bloomberg.

The company informed retail staff of the move Wednesday in a memo obtained by Bloomberg News.

Apple already started requiring masks for employees at select stores earlier this month

and it pushed back a return to office deadline for corporate employees.

It also began requiring masks for customers in a few counties

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