Hollywood Deals and Digital Futures

Cloudflare has a successful IPO, but will WeWork’s planned IPO be considered a success even if it actually has one? Is another investment bubble popping in the AR/VR space? Will the streaming wars kill the back-end deal in Hollywood? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Cloudflare stock pops 20% in first day of trading (CNBC)
• WeWork’s valuation could fall to below $15 billion in IPO, down from $47 billion private valuation (CNBC)
• House lawmakers ask Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe (The Washington Post)
• Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down (TechCrunch)
• J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The end of the backend? Disney wants to limit profit participation on its new TV shows (Los Angeles Times)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (NYTimes)
• As sex toys continue to get hacked, the defin­i­tion of sexual assault is under question (Screen Shot)
• What Happened to Urban Dictionary? (Wired)
• TONY HAWK ON HOW HIS GAMES CHANGED SKATEBOARDING (The Verge)
• From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire (Forbes)
• Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (Science)

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