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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Spotify officially buys The Ringer, we have the official Disney+ subscriber numbers, Jeff Weiner is officially stepping down as LinkedIn CEO, a Rockstar Games co-founder is apparently leaving the company, and what languages do most developers say they want to learn next? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com NetGear.com/bestwifi Links: Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (Recode) Disney earnings beat expectations, fueled by strong Disney+ subscriptions (Yahoo! Finance) LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge) NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ) Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg) Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired) Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company (The Verge) Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet) Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes) Steve Jobs' personality changed after Apple's success, Wozniak says (CNET) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, February 5th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Spotify officially buys the ringer. We have the official Disney Plus subscriber numbers.
0:14.3	Jeff Wiener is officially stepping down as LinkedIn CEO. A rock-star games co-founder
0:19.9	is apparently leaving that company?
0:22.6	And what languages do most developers say
0:24.8	they want to learn next?
0:26.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.1	Well, I guess I know now why there hasn't been a rewatchables podcast in a while.
0:37.0	Spotify is officially buying the Ringer.
0:41.0	The podcast-centric media company run by Bill Simmons is staying
0:45.9	on board and all of the 90 Ringer employees will be hired by Spotify and it seems
0:51.2	like Spotify will continue to keep the Ringer website running, even though clearly they're
0:56.1	in this for the podcast.
0:58.0	Quote, the companies didn't disclose a sale price. The deal is supposed to close in the first quarter of 2020.
1:05.5	With the ringer, we're basically getting the new ESPN, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, told
1:10.6	Recode in an interview after the deal was announced.
1:14.0	What Simmons has accomplished in just a few short years, it's nothing short of extraordinary.
1:18.0	It's not just his own podcast, but his whole network that he's doing really well.
1:22.1	He's a talent magnet."
1:23.4	End quote.
1:24.4	Aside from the continuation of the website, what everybody is asking is, does this mean
1:28.9	the podcasts will eventually go behind a paywell? Well, here's what Peter Kafka tweeted this morning.
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