Tue. 03/30 – Spotify To Spin Up Clubhouse Competitor

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It’s actually a nutso butso news day. Spotify is launching a Clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon. Big updates to Google Maps. We know the dates for WWDC. Amazon seems to be doing some Twitter sock puppetry. A bunch of new phones from Xiaomi. Substack is raising another big round. And that’s not all. There’s so much that happened today in the world of tech, that I can’t even promo it all, so let’s just get to it. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Metalab.com Links: Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge) Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios) Amazon Steps Up Silicon Ambitions With New Networking Chip (The Information) Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge) Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac) Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles (Insider) There's Something Fishy About Amazon's Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated] (Gizmodo) Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion (WSJ) Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America (The Verge) Xiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once again, if you're not listening to our sister podcast, The Kotke Ride Home,
0:04.1	here's what you're missing out on today.
0:06.2	Jack's got a brief history of a super popular medieval fruit that had to be eaten rotten
0:11.1	and then just suddenly disappeared from history.
0:14.4	The newly discovered zombie brain cells that stay active for hours after you die, one of
0:19.2	Twitch's most popular streams right now is a live feed of a stop sign that no one stops at.
0:24.0	Again, our sister show, the Kotky Ride Home, is just like this show, but it's all the cool stuff you
0:29.7	miss today, not just in the world of tech.
0:32.1	K-O-T-T-T-K-E-E, K-O-T-T-K-E, Ride Home,
0:35.6	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.3	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, March 30th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:46.2	Today, it's actually a nutso butso news day.
0:49.2	Spotify is launching a clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon.
0:54.8	Big updates to Google Maps. We know the dates for
0:58.1	W. W. D.C. Amazon seems to be doing some Twitter sock puppetry, a whole bunch of new phones from
1:03.7	Jowmee, Substack is raising another big round and that's not all there's just
1:08.0	so much happening today in the world of tech that I can't even promo it so let's just
1:12.2	get to it.
1:16.0	Spotify is probably launching its own clubhouse competitor Toot Sweet.
1:21.0	Spotify has acquired app developer Betty Labs, creator of
1:24.3	locker room, a live social audio app where fans can talk about sports, quoting
1:30.0	Axios. Spotify said in a statement that in coming months it will
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