It’s earnings season and The Verge has been paying close attention to the impact of COVID-19 on the tech world. This week on The Vergecast, co-hosts Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss the takeaways from earnings reports by Twitter, Tesla, Facebook, and other big tech companies.
Vergecast: the new CEOs of America’s mobile carriers, and Big Tech’s quarterly earnings
Lots of numbers in this episode
Lots of numbers in this episode
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In the second half of the show, the big topic is the recent shift in CEOs at the three big mobile carriers in the United States: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. How will things change under a new oligopoly and the launch of new streaming services they own?
There’s a whole lot more in between all of that — like Zoom’s awkward correction to its user count, Paul’s weekly segment “Display port alt mode 2.0: a memoir,” and the influence of Trolls World Tour on the movie theater industry — so listen here or in your favorite podcast player to hear it all.
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Stories discussed this week:
- More than 1 million people in the US have tested positive for COVID-19
- No one knows when the COVID-19 pandemic will end
- It’s impossible to count everyone with COVID-19
- Elon Musk is dangerously wrong about the novel coronavirus
- Elon Musk says shelter-in-place orders during COVID-19 are ‘fascist’
- Americans are surprisingly open to letting their phones be used for coronavirus tracking
- Apple and Google have begun testing their COVID-19 exposure notification API
- How a team of NASA engineers developed a ventilator for COVID-19 patients in just a month
- Apple’s latest iOS beta makes it easier to unlock an iPhone while wearing a face mask
- Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims
- Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
- Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic
- Microsoft Teams jumps 70 percent to 75 million daily active users
- Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better
- Facebook usage is surging, but the company warns it may be temporary
- New DisplayPort spec enables 16K video over USB-C
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is stepping down, John Stankey to serve as new CEO
- John Legere abruptly resigns from T-Mobile board of directors ‘to pursue other options’
- Trolls World Tour made nearly $100 million without theaters, but theaters aren’t obsolete
- AMC Theaters will no longer play Universal movies after Trolls World Tour’s on-demand Next year’s Oscars will allow streaming-only movies to qualify, but with heavy restrictionssuccess
- Regal Cinemas warns Universal over Trolls World Tour skipping theaters
- WarnerMedia expands free HBO Max deal to HBO subscribers who pay through Apple’s services
- Oppo Find X2 Pro review: supercar smartphone
- Intel NUC 9 Extreme review: small size, big potential
- Google Pixel Buds review: second time’s the charm
- DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time
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