Wed. 04/08 – The Desktop Web Is Back (for the time being…)

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Jack Dorsey literally puts his money to work for Coronavirus relief. More details on that Airbnb lifeline raise. Details on an interesting telemedicine raise. Netflix has increased parental controls, Google is pushing a mandatory new setup for Android development and why the desktop web is back, for the time being anyway. Sponsors: Caramba.store; promocode: BRIAN50 CognitoHQ.com Links: @jack's tweet storm Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1 Billion Financing Announced Monday (WSJ) Airbnb In Talks To Raise More Debt (Bloomberg) Update on Zoom’s 90-Day Plan to Bolster Key Privacy and Security Initiatives (Zoom Blog) Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating in new update (The Verge) Google is requiring Virtual A/B on new Android 11 devices, paving the way for mandatory Seamless Updates (XDA Developers) Microsoft is freezing hiring except in some unspecified 'strategic areas' (Business Insider) All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021 (The Verge) The Virus Changed the Way We Internet (NYTimes) Restaurant management platform Toast cuts 50% of staff (TechCrunch) Tyto Care raises $50 million to grow its telehealth examination and diagnostic platform (VentureBeat) Google's video chat service adds 2 million users a day amid coronavirus (CNET) Don’t be surprised when ‘Hangouts Meet’ becomes ‘Google Meet’ (9to5Google) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Wednesday, April 8th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.1	Jack Dorsey puts his money to work for coronavirus relief. More details on that Airbnb Lifeline
0:15.2	raise, details on an interesting telemedicine raise, Netflix has increased parental
0:20.5	controls, Google is pushing a mandatory new setup for Android development, and why the
0:25.2	desktop web is back, if only for the time being anyway. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:30.8	tech. Jack Dorsey announced last night that he is moving $1 billion worth of the square equity
0:40.0	that he owns, or around 28% of his personal wealth to an LLC called Start Small, which will initially fund COVID-19 relief and once this crisis has passed will turn its efforts to focus on girls health and education
0:57.0	as well as universal basic income efforts. He also announced that the operations will all be out in the open and transparent, quoting Jack's
1:06.9	tweetstorm.
1:08.4	Grants will be made from Start Small Foundation or the LLC directly based on the beneficiary org.
1:15.0	All transfers, sales and grants will be made public in tracking sheet.
1:19.2	Why the transparency?
1:20.8	It's important to show my work so I and others can learn.
1:24.0	I've discovered and funded around $40 million worth of many
1:28.0	orgs with proven impact and efficiency in the past, mostly anonymously.
1:32.0	Going forward, all grants will be public. in the past, mostly anonymously.
1:32.5	Going forward, all grants will be public.
1:34.8	Suggestions welcome.
1:36.3	Drop your Cash App, smiley face.
1:38.6	Why pull just from Square and not Twitter?
1:41.4	Simple.
1:42.3	I own a lot more Square. And I'll need to pace the sales over some time.
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