Wed. 09/26 - Facebook Dirty Laundry

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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More fallout from the Instagram departures and some pretty dirty laundry aired from inside Facebook, Google reverses course on Chrome, Coinbase opens its doors to alts, and maybe I was right about Amazon Homes! Links: Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind (Forbes) Facebook’s Messing With Instagram Prompted Co-Founders’ Departure (WSJ) Product updates based on your feedback (The Google Chrome Blog) The Temptation of Apple News (Slate) Coinbase will add cryptocurrencies more rapidly, with ratings and reviews (Yahoo Finance) One third of ICOs launched in the past two years aren’t listed anywhere (TNW) Amazon Comes Up With Another Way to Get Alexa Into Your Home (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, September 26, 2018.
0:08.8	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:10.3	Today, more fallout from the Instagram departures and some pretty dirty laundry airing
0:16.4	from inside Facebook. Google reverses course on Chrome.
0:20.7	Coinbase opens its doors to al, and maybe I was right about Amazon Homes all along.
0:27.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.0	Today, Parmi Olson Today Parma Olson at Forbes dropped a bombshell story which was an interview with Brian Acton
0:40.1	co-founder of WhatsApp. In the piece Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp.
0:42.5	In the piece, Acton airs a surprisingly large pile of dirty laundry about the internal
0:48.4	workings at Facebook, about Mark Zuckerberg, Cheryl Sandberg, and other execs. So this would be a major story under normal circumstances
0:56.0	because we don't often get insiders giving us behind the scenes peaks like
1:00.4	this but given yesterday's news about the Instagram founders leaving and given that
1:05.3	act and obviously knew this would drop right on the heels of that news.
1:10.7	This is interesting to say the least.
1:14.0	You might remember that a year ago,
1:17.0	Acton walked away from $850 million in Facebook stock
1:21.0	on his way out the door of that company and now we know why.
1:25.8	He really, really didn't agree with Facebook about how to monetize WhatsApp.
1:31.2	Acton in this interview paints a picture of what's app as a company run by actual idealists
1:36.0	along with co-founder Jan Comme
1:38.0	Acton ran what's app with strict stances against advertising
1:42.0	against monetizing users' data,
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