Microsoft's Commercial Success and HBO Max's Streaming Surge

Microsoft earnings are insane, as expected. Wonder Woman might have made HBOMax a contender. YouTube is still the king of getting creators paid. What if I told you Atari doesn’t want to be left out of the game streaming wars. And listen to the end of this episode for the big podcast announcement I’ve been promising.

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Links:

• Microsoft profits jump 33 percent as pandemic continues shift to cloud computing. (NYTimes)
• AT&T Q4: HBO Max Activations Double to 17.2 Million, Warner Bros. Revenue Declines 21% (Variety)
• Apple fixes another three iOS zero-days exploited in the wild (ZDNet)
• Apple just had its best quarter in India (TechCrunch)
• YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years (The Verge)
• Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games (The Verge)
• Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it shuts down internal development (TechCrunch)

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