This is a short summary. ↗ Open original to view full content
Legal Nerdery on Trump’s TikTok Executive Order
from blog Daring Fireball, | ↗ original
Related
More from Daring Fireball
Apple Reports Q1 FY2025 Results
31 Jan 2025 |
original ↗
Apple: Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 first quarter ended December 28, 2024. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $2.40, up 10 percent year over year. Jason Snell (with his usual assortment of charts): Probably most notable...
How to Write (and Read) Headlines in the Trump 2.0 Era, Microsoft-TikTok Edition
30 Jan 2025 |
original ↗
A Monday report from Reuters, syndicated at The Guardian, “Microsoft Is in Talks to Acquire TikTok, Trump Claims”: Donald Trump has suggested that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. When asked if Microsoft was in talks to buy the app, the US president said “I would say yes”, adding...
OpenStreetMap Community Discussion on How to Handle the U.S. Federal Government’s Imminent Designation of the Gulf of Mexico as the ‘Gulf of America’
29 Jan 2025 |
original ↗
Fascinating thread — and an almost entirely civil discussion of what has become, for obvious reasons, an inflammatory topic. These are mapping and metadata nerds approaching the dilemma in the very nerdiest of ways. I found it rather soothing, and also quite informative — particularly the posts from Minh Nguyễn, who seems to be an OpenStreetMap...
★ Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back
29 Jan 2025 |
original ↗
The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!).
Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back
29 Jan 2025 |
original ↗
David Pierce, writing at The Verge: Rather than buy another smartwatch, Migicovsky decided to try and get Pebble going again. He sold his most recent startup, a messaging app called Beeper, to Automattic last year and left the company in the fall. Since then, he’d thought about starting a Pebble-like product from scratch, figuring it’d be...