Software Defined Talk Episode 338: Time Machine and Index Funds
Jan 7, 2022
55:35
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
- Pay
- Apple
- Alexa
- Security
- 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 ****## Sponsors
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- CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Station Eleven on HBO
- Matt: State of the World 2022
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