Episode 537: YOLO acquisitions

This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

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Runner-up Titles

• "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”


• Matt Ray comes off the top rope


• We are in that demographic


• Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.


• No Translation Needed


• Do we have a fashion channel?


• Why not us too?


• Let’s just try it


• Hooters adjacent tech story


• Pay-per-crawl.


• I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does


• Cool, copyright, I love it


• Just lots of weird stuff going on.


• Y’all are weird

Rundown

• Final thought on Australia


• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million


• VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide


• An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl


• Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors


• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max


• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights


• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature


• Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue


• Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18

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