Episode 537
Episode 537: YOLO acquisitions
This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.
September 12, 20251h 6mExplicit
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Show Notes
This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.
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Runner-up Titles
- "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
- Matt Ray comes off the top rope
- We are in that demographic
- Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
- No Translation Needed
- Do we have a fashion channel?
- Why not us too?
- Let’s just try it
- Hooters adjacent tech story
- Pay-per-crawl.
- I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
- Cool, copyright, I love it
- Just lots of weird stuff going on.
- Y’all are weird
Rundown
- Final thought on Australia
- Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million
- VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide
- An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
- Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
- Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
- Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
- Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
- Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18
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