Episode 338: Time Machine and Index Funds

This week we discuss why cloud numbers don’t add up, Oracle buys Cerner and the demise of BlackBerry. Plus, Matt gives advice for keeping up with Web3.

Rundown

• Cloud numbers don’t add up


• A Look Back at Q3 '21 Public Cloud Software Earnings


• Oracle to buy medical records company Cerner in its biggest acquisition ever


• Apple hits $3 trillion market cap, becoming first company to hit the mark


• If you're clinging to an old BlackBerry, it will officially stop working on Jan. 4

Relevant to your Interests

• AWS
  
  
  • Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan’s FTC
  
  
  • You have asked for this, it is basically your fault!
  
  
  • MongoDB Poaches Top Amazon Executives to Compete With AWS
  
  
  • AWS DynamoDB architect who recently left for MongoDB
  
  
  • Enterprise Strategy Blog 2021: Year-End Roundup
  
  
  • Amazon announces broad cloud and AI collaboration with auto giant Stellantis
  
  


• M&A and VC
  
  
  • Google confirms it acquired cybersecurity specialist Siemplify, reportedly for $500M, to become part of Google Cloud’s Chronicle
  
  
  • Google confirms it acquired cybersecurity specialist Siemplify, reportedly for $500M, to become part of Google Cloud’s Chronicle
  
  
  • PitchBook: seed and early stage startups in the US raised $93B in 2021 through December 15, up from $52B in 2020 and $30B in 2016
  
  
  • Spotify acquires podcast tech company Whooshkaa which turns radio broadcasts into on-demand audio
  
  
  • Cal.com, Inc. raises $7.4m Seed
  
  
  • Redpoint Ventures is Launching a Media Operation—And Embracing TikTok
  
  
  • Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreesen are still working
  
  


• Crypto
  
  
  • Money in the Metaverse
  
  
  • The Block Unicorn Index
  
  
  • RadioShack goes Crypto
  
  


• Pay
  
  
  • Google will pay top execs $1 million each after declining to boost workers’ pay
  
  
  • Apple Pays Its Engineers $180,000 Bonuses to Stop Them From Joining Meta
  
  


• Apple
  
  
  • Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a full native app with macOS 12.2 beta
  
  
  • Apple is reportedly going to make more of its own chips
  
  


• Alexa
  
  
  • Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show
  
  
  • Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket
  
  


• Security
  
  
  • LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
  
  
  • Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp users targeted in phishing scheme
  
  


• Misc
  
  
  • TikTok is accused of violating GPL with new live streaming software
  
  
  • Retailers To Lose $828 Million Of Sales Over Christmas Due To Inaccessible Websites
  
  
  • What’s next for Cloud Foundry
  
  
  • A big video game company enters the metaverse
  
  
  • IBM has restarted attempts to sell its unprofitable Watson Health division
  
  
  • Minecraft as a k8s admin tool
  
  
  • Web3 For and Against
  
  
  • Jack Dorsey says VCs really own Web3 (and Web3 boosters are pretty mad about it)
  
  

Nonsense

• U Refill Toner | Laser printer cartridge refills you do yourself


• Pedant-friendly millipede discovered: First with 1,000+ legs


• Largest ever giant millipede fossil found on UK beach


• A DAO wants to make Blockbuster a decentralized film streaming service


• Marvel Cinematic Universe is taking over the box office


• Researchers make world's thinnest Christmas tree


• Dieser Tortilla ist köstlich! Kein Öl, kein Backofen! Einfaches und leckeres Frühstück # 110


• Crypto CEO Brian Armstrong Buys Los Angeles Home for $133 Million


• Taco Bell launches taco-a-day subscription program nationwide to drive visits


• North Koreans enjoy burritos after paper bizarrely claims Kim Jong-il invented them
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Station Eleven on HBO
  
  
  • Book originally recommend on episode 137
  
  


• Matt: State of the World 2022

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