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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
  • Money in the Metaverse
  • The Block Unicorn Index
  • RadioShack goes Crypto
• Pay
  • Google will pay top execs $1 million each after declining to boost workers’ pay
  • Apple Pays Its Engineers $180,000 Bonuses to Stop Them From Joining Meta
• Apple
  • Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a full native app with macOS 12.2 beta
  • Apple is reportedly going to make more of its own chips
• Alexa
  • Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show
  • Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket
• Security
  • LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
  • Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp users targeted in phishing scheme
• 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
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Station Eleven on HBO
  • Book originally recommend on episode 137
• Matt: State of the World 2022

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