Episode Description
Another earnings round up leads me to ask, what if the Covid era really is a historical inflection point for tech? AT&T has decided what to charge for HBO with ads, while Verizon is try to get someone to take AOL and Yahoo of their hands. What if we did streaming gaming, but just for browsing the web? Say hello to Mighty. And odds are, you’ve probably never gotten millimeter wave 5G on you fancy new phone.
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- Facebook Revenue Grows 48% as Ad Prices Increase (The Information)
- Apple warns of supply shortages likely to impact iPad and Mac in Q3 (9to5 Mac)
- WarnerMedia plans to charge $9.99 per month for ad-supported HBO Max (CNBC)
- Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL (Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon to spend $1B to boost pay for 500k operations workers by as much as $3 an hour (Geek Wire)
- Mighty wants to ‘make Chrome faster’ by streaming a browser from the cloud, starting on macOS (9to5 Google)
- Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8% (Ars Technica)
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