From Law to Tech: A CEO's Unconventional Journey

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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• 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
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• The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time

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