Facebook Announces In-Chat WhatsApp Shopping – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Facebook announces several updates for WhatsApp including in-chat shopping, Huawei announces the Mate 40 Pro, and Quibi announces its shutting down.

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About the Gig Economy

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Tom discusses where we’ve been, who is affected and where we may or may not be going with the legal issues surrounding the Gig Economy.

Featuring Tom Merritt.

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You’ve heard of the gig economy
It means folks can pick up extra work and make a little extra money easily right?
Or wait, does it mean big tech companies get to exploit desperate unemployed people to pay them a pittance with no benefits or workplace protections?
Also somehow the laws on what’s a gig worker and what isn’t seems to only apply to everyone BUT Uber drivers?
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Quibi Quietly Quits – DTNS 3891

PayPal will let US customers buy, sell and hold bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin. The Information’s sources say that NBCUniversal and Facebook declined to buy Quibi’s catalog of video and Quibi chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg is now considering shutting down the company. And Amazon’s Luna game streaming service opened up to users by invite only.

Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe

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Paypal Will Take Bitcoin – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Paypal gets into cryptocurrencies, Facebook clones NextDoor and Amazon’s game streaming service Luna launches.

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Social Media Anger Management – DTNS 3890


The US justice department filed an antitrust lawsuit in Washington DC federal court Tuesday, alleging Alphabet’s Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising using exclusionary and interlocking business agreements to keep out competitors.

Starring Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe

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DOJ Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google – DTH

DTH-6-150x150The US DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, the EU turns on cross-border contact tracing app interoperability, and you can now actually buy the LG rollable OLED.

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Security is Not a Game… Normally – DTNS 3889

How can a simple word game give you better insight on network security? David Spark is here to show us how.

Starring Tom Merritt, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe

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Apple Launches Apple Music TV – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Apple launches the free streaming channel Apple Music TV, Ireland’s DPC launches an investigation into Instagram’s use of children’s data, and TikTok is no longer banned in Pakistan.

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Week in Review for the Week of 10/12/20 – DTH

DTH-6-150x150Apple announces new iPhones, social media platforms react to a controversial New York Times story on Hunter Biden, and Google announces the final migration from Hangouts to Chat.

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LIDAR: Apple has it in Spads – DTNS 3888

After criticism of how Twitter applied its hacked materials policy the company announced Thursday evening it would change the policy. What’s changed and will it have any effect?

Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Sean Hollister, Joe

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