The TikTok Acquisition Saga and Current Trends

As many headlines from the Amazon hardware event as I can manage to squeeze in. Facebook defines the Metaverse as it sees it. Cloudflare wants to be the 4th big player in the cloud. And Satya Nadella himself dishes on that time Microsoft almost bought Tik Tok. His words, the “strangest thing I’ve ever sort of worked on.”

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Links:

• Amazon introduces Amazon Glow, an interactive, video calling device for kids and families (TechCrunch)
• SAY HELLO TO ASTRO, ALEXA ON WHEELS (The Verge)
• Astro Intro YouTube Video
• Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud’ (Protocol)
• Facebook will publish some of its research on teens and Instagram (Engadget)
• Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts (CNBC)
• 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (Engadget)
• Trump pushing Microsoft to buy TikTok was ‘strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,’ says Satya Nadella (The Verge)

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