Techonomist (techonomist.email): Recent Episodes
Ben Johnson
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0:25 The Bulletin
TikTok sale paused, Tesla buys Bitcoin, Microsoft/EU support pay for news, Bumble IPO and earnings (Twitter, Uber, Softbank & Affirm)
6:34 The Feature
"Shopify's platform strategy"
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0:30 The Bulletin
Apple on Facebook and data privacy, earnings (Alphabet, Amazon, Alibaba, Snap, PayPal...)
5:32 The Feature
"The Bezos era of Amazon"
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1:03 The Bulletin
Stonks! (GameStop, Reddit & Robinhood), Ant Group’s ambitions reined in & earnings (Apple, Microsoft, Facebook & Tesla)
6:29 The Feature
"Search, social and the news business"
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0:34 The Bulletin
Netflix, Intel & IBM earnings, and Google Search threatens to leave Australia
3:43 The Feature
"Is Tesla a platform?"
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1:04 - The Bulletin
WhatsApp new terms, Parler disconnect & Airbnb cancels Washington guests
4:50 - The Feature
Social, regulation and moderation
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0:34 - The Bulletin De-platforming Trump, China tech drama & more 3:34 - The Feature Smartphones, platforms and neobanks
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SolarWinds hack, the EU publishes proposed new laws for tech companies, and Apple's new privacy labels.
By going public, we get to see a detailed case study of the food delivery business model.
Big tech is building the new interface of banking, and bringing the banks along for the ride.
Salesforce confirms Slack deal, Zoom & Snowflake earnings, Stripe Treasury and Shopify beats out Amazon for Black Friday sales.
Airbnb, DoorDash & Affirm publish S-1s, Zuckerberg and Dorsey face the senate on election content moderation and Twitter launches ‘Fleets’.
For the likes of Amazon, Uber and Airbnb, the biggest problems to solve are human, not software.
Another Apple event, Lyft turns to food delivery and the market reacts to progress on a vaccine.
Ant’s IPO suspended, Uber drivers are not employees and tech earnings from Square, PayPal & Peloton.
Growth slows for Netflix, Amazon wants your shopping receipts, and Paquiao boxes his way into payments.
With Crowdcube and Seedrs announcing an intention to merge, let's look back at how they helped create and grow the products we love.
Venmo launches a credit card, Square buys bitcoins and James Bond kills the cinema industry.
Uber gets the green light in London, Amazon wants to read your palm and Coinbase goes apolitical.
The furlough scheme, government backed loans and what’s next for “zombie companies” as the winter plan waters down stimulus.
Apple and Amazon are bundling more services together which has fuelled anti-competitive claims, but the market has proven specialists can still prevail.
The market punished Slack for not taking advantage of the pandemic, but they appear focussed on the long game.
Venmo & Zelle have had a stranglehold on American P2P mobile payments, but Jack Dorsey’s Square is making a serious challenge with Cash App.
Companies like Afterpay & Klarna are eating the traditional credit card market with better buyer experiences while avoiding regulation.
How companies like Netflix, Peloton and Deliveroo have brought the enjoyable things about cities into your home, wherever you may live.
How one of Germany's biggest post-war accounting frauds will impact the banking as a service industry.
As the pandemic and government stimulus runs riot on the credit industry, we may see businesses seek the safety of traditional banks.