Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, October 27th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Microsoft and Google continue to report earnings that boggle the mind.

Meanwhile, Robin Hood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, you can be wounded by them too.

Will the Facebook files force some sort of FTC action?

AWS goes after Google's Tensor Processing units,

and do you think I could produce this show on MS-Doss?

Probably not.

But Dune was written on it.

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech. I want to

lead off with a quick earnings roundup today not because there have been any sort of

narrative violations like we talked about earlier in the week but

because I think we can touch based on a couple things real quickly.

Microsoft earnings first, of course, they killed it again, beat revenue expectations reporting 22% year over year growth, their

fastest growth since 2019. You know when we talk about how amazing it is that companies this big or even in Microsoft's case this old

can still be growing that they've not run into that law of large numbers wall that

a lot of people expect eventually well get this Joe Weisenthau tipped me off to the fact

that Microsoft has had 17 straight quarters now of double digit revenue growth.

This is a 46 year old company, y'all. This is a company so big that it's now

closing in on Apple's market cap crown as the biggest company of all time, and frankly that's

just insane. That's mostly due to their cloud stuff of

course though Azure revenue growth was sort of flat this quarter but also note

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