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scott budman
@scottbudman
Covering Technology, Business, AI, Venture Capital and Housing for NBC, drummer, @UCLA Bruin.
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Joined January 2009
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    #New: Yearly salary now needed to buy a median home in: San Jose: $458,503 San Francisco: $321,462 San Diego: $235,343 Los Angeles: $224,190 New York: $200,279 Boston: $190,858 Seattle: $188,158 Wash, DC: $161,522 Source: @HSHassociates
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    Spotify lost $4 billion in market value this week.
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    This is ridiculous. The Asian community is suffering from a rise in hate crimes due to the pandemic, both locally and globally. This radio host owes @bts_twt an apology.
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    #Breaking: Steve Bannon's Twitter and YouTube accounts have been suspended.
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    Text messages between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani today at the #Theranos trial. Holmes: "You are the breeze in desert for me." "My water." "And ocean." "Meant to be only together tiger." Balwani: "OK"
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    3.42 million is trending, because @BTS_twt says it has sold that many copies of its new album in a week. That would break Adele’s 2015 record of 3.38 million.
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    Another tech company using @BTS_twt members in a tech presentation .. last year it was Google, this year at the #SamsungEvent
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    #New: Lyft says it will cover all legal fees for drivers sued under Texas’ abortion law. The company says it will also donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood.
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    That was a costly @60Minutes interview. Facebook has lost $50 billion in market value so far this morning. $FB
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    Confirmed: Yes, Apple and Google require social media apps to have a block feature: From Apple App Store guidelines: "The ability to block abusive users from the service." So, X/Twitter should not be able to remove the block feature.
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    Had a rough day? Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.6 billion today. Jeff Bezos lost $3.2 billion. Google's founders lost $2.3 billion, each. Bill Gates lost $2.2 billion. (Source: Bloomberg)
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    Two people proven right years later: 1. The inventor of the QR Code. 2. John Mulaney's realtor.
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    Just asked a group of young techies what their favorite part of Google’s #io19 was. They said “when they mentioned @bts_bighit in the keynote!” And that’s a wrap on day one.