I try to give you the outlines of the Facebook antitrust thing, and what it might mean for tech. Airbnb makes its market debut. Crunchyroll finds a safe home away from AT&T. I bet folks at HBO are jealous. Boston Dynamics finds a new guardian as well, that hopefully can find something useful for it to do. And it really is, finally, the end of the road for Flash.
Sponsors:
- Amazon.com/ridehome
- Tinycapital.com
Links:
- The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp (The Verge)
- Lawsuits Filed by the FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History (Facebook Newsroom)
- Airbnb shares set to double in IPO — likely to be worth nearly $93 billion (CNBC)
- Sony’s Funimation acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion (Polygon)
- Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1 Billion (Gizmodo)
- Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (ZDNet)
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