Amazon just purchased MGM for $9 billion dollars. In this deal, they’ve added 4,000 films and 17,000 hours of TV to Prime TV, including James Bond, one of the highest-grossing film franchises ever.

This purchase got me thinking, what do big tech (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) actually own and why... let's discuss!

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📺 0:00 - Intro - Amazon purchased MGM studies | The difference between a brand and a company
📺 1:18 - Part 1 - Amazons acquisitions (Goodreads, Audible, AbeBooks, Shelfari, Whole Foods, Zappos, PillPack, Twitch, IMDB etc)
📺 2:54 - Part 2 - Nash Holdings (Washington Post, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, Clock of Long Now)
📺 4:15 - Part 3 - Facebook / META acquisitions (Oculus VR, Whatsapp, Threadsy, Giphy)
📺 4:55 - Part 4 - Alphabet / Google acquisitions (Fitbit, Nest, YouTube, Tenor, goats)
📺 6:29 - Part 5 - Apple acquisitions (Shazam, Beats headphnoes, land etc)
📺 6:29 - Part 6 - Microsoft acquisitions (Skype, Nokia, Hotmail.com, Github, Yammer, LinkedIn, Activision Blizzard, MikeRoweSoft.com)

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Facebook -

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👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - [ Ссылка ]

Amazon -

👉 Amazon Go's toxic longterm plan - [ Ссылка ]
👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - [ Ссылка ]

Twitter -

👉 Why is Twitter so toxic - [ Ссылка ]

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Simon Caine is an English award-winning comedian, writer, author, podcaster and human based in Edinburgh Scotland. He makes a video a week, released every Sunday.

Over the last decade, he's performed all over the world, from London to NYC to Australia. His most recent show "every room becomes a panic room when you overthink enough" got 5* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe where he sold out the run.

Previously he opened for Trevor Lock, Ben Miller and Henry Ginsberg as well as gigged on the same bill as people like Terry Alderton, Mark Dolan, Matthew Crosby and Bec Hill.

He's been featured in the Huffington Post “Tweets of the Week” feature several times and had jokes/writing appeared in The Poke and other publications. He hates writing in the third person.

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