Mon. 03/21 – Telegram Was Banned In Brazil Until It Wasn’t

An alternative title to today’s show could be Schrödinger’s Brazilian Telegram Ban. I’ll explain. Ukrainians say Elon Musk’s Starlink donation is proving quite useful. Toronto has become the third-largest tech hub in North America. Should Apple make routers again? And where will the advertising dollars go in 2022?

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Links:

• Telegram forgot to check its email and now it’s banned in Brazil (The Verge)
• Brazil Lifts Its Ban on Telegram After Two Days (NYTimes)
• Elon Musk’s Starlink is keeping Ukrainians online when traditional Internet fails (Washington Post)
• Chipmakers face two-year shortage of critical equipment (FT)
• Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town (NYTimes)
• Apple Should Make Home Wi-Fi Routers Again as Part of Mac Reboot (Bloomberg)
• TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising (Ben-Evans.com)

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