Spotify: cancelled | JOMO for 31st Jan
In today’s JOMO: Spotify faces its Facebook moment, why you are unlikely to see Indian ‘tech’ IPOs anytime soon and Hagrid answers some questions
🗞In the news
Is Mr Grover inspiring others too? Or is it just that these founders are looking for some self validation?
Spotify faces its Facebook moment as musicians boycott platform over Joe Rogan podcast - CNBC
Spotify on Sunday said it would add disclaimers to any podcast episodes that include a discussion about Covid, and direct users to public health sites for more information. CEO Daniel Ek said the platform didn’t want to “take on the position of being content censor,” but would ensure there are consequences for creators who break its rules.
The cookie crumbles, oh so quickly. Related: Why Spotify can’t afford to lose Joe Rogan
🤩New products, features, launches
Meta adds 3D avatars to Instagram Stories, with updates for Messenger and Facebook - Verge
Yuck
🤔Interesting read
While some workers were excited about Meta's new direction, others have taken issue with the company's approach toward employees and questioned whether the company was sidelining existing problems.
Excellent and inevitable
Paytm’s crash and the puzzling future of Indian tech stocks - Rest of World
“I don’t think, in the next six months, you’re going to see many new-age business IPOs coming up,” said Amit Kumar Gupta, portfolio advisor at financial markets services firm Adroit Financial Services. Several startups that were poised to hit the market until last month “have now pushed their IPOs because of what happened with Paytm,” Kumar said.
Delhi dethrones Bengaluru as startup capital of India - ET
The survey said more than 5,000 recognised startups were added in Delhi while 4,514 startups were added in Bengaluru between April 2019 and December 2021. With a total of 11,308, Maharashtra has more recognised startups than any other state.
Quite the headline. Reality, well is a bit different
Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results - Via HN
The post critiques the practice of displaying ads above search results, a method used by some of Google's competitors back then. At the time Google published this, it only put ads in the sidebar to the right of search results
Hypocrisy ki bhi …..
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What an unforgettable name for a product. And an interesting twist to FAQs
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📊Poll for the day
Is this Spotify’s Facebook moment?
Er what happened?
Yes, an important moment
This too shall pass
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