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EJ Ying

on Behind the Intel-Apple Modem Divorce

Intel undoubtedly bungled on execution, but it has really smart engineers and $10bn of R&D is no joke. Apple may yet learn from Intel's mistakes, but it should also be clear that Apple's chances of success at in-housing the modem is far from guaranteed.

Mallikarjunadas Coimbatore

on Uber Makes Big Promises in IPO ‘Road Show’

That SoftBank itself is planning to IPO it’s Vision Fund should be sending shivers down one’s spine. Why the sudden spate to cash out - Lyft, Zoom, Uber and Softbank in 1 month. Are the rivers drying up? Big Short anyone?

Aaron Wall

on Bug Juice, Amazon Envy: Inside Airbnb’s Engineering Challenges

There might be an inability to sell hotel rooms aggressively on the Airbnb site without eroding the perceived difference between hotels & what their core market originally was.

Jinhong Chen

on Lyft Threatened Morgan Stanley With Legal Action Over Short-Selling Trades

Never heard of someone using TRS to circumvent lockups. If this works, it's most likely Lyft's lockup agreement has some peculiar features that allow people to do this.

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on What Will Happen to the Social Wealth of Instagram Influencers as They Age?

It looks like new generations explicitly do not want to use the same social networks as their fuddy-duddy parents and a new social network will emerge for Gen Z. ...Facebook won't be able to co-opt them the way it did Instagram because government antitrust authorities won't be caught napping at the switch again.

Imran Maskatia

on As Netflix Cancels Shows Faster, Fan Favorites Quickly Disappear

So who's going to pick up shows dropped by Netflix? Is there a service who can find an audience they can't, or justify the costs for a show that they won't?

Jeff Kirk

on Uber Pays $20 Million to Settle Driver-Classification Lawsuits

This was always the most likely outcome. The Supreme Court's jurisprudence with respect to upholding use of the Federal Arbitration Act in nearly all instances was well-established over a decade ago. The only possible change in this regard would've been if Merrick Garland had been confirmed as the late Justice Scalia's replacement on the bench. That said, Justice Ginsburg wrote an extremely thorough dissent on the topic...one that a future court could readily use as a roadmap for identifying reasonable grounds to do a 180 on the topic.

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