Rivals Facebook & Apple Crush Their Earnings, Amazon’s Workplace Culture & Qualcomm’s CEO-Elect

A massive day for mega cap tech: Apple and Facebook reported blowout earnings last night, in the midst of their privacy fight over the new iOS 14.5 software update. We cover what Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg had to say on their earnings calls. And the Qualcomm earnings are no slouch either—incoming CEO Cristiano Amon joins us for the first time on TechCheck to break down their quarter. On those Apple earnings, we had this to ask of our audience: what’s the bear case for this stock that just won’t quit? And who needs a reality check? Well, that would be Amazon, as LinkedIn names the company as the top place where Americans want to work, despite the company facing its biggest unionization effort at an Alabama warehouse earlier this month. More on the labor concerns and workplace culture at Amazon on the show today. Then, we’re joined by the CEO of one of the most successful SPACs— John Carrington of Stem. And Julia Boorstin joins the rest of the TechCheck gang to explain Verizon’s latest effort to potentially sell off Yahoo and AOL for about half what they bought them for not long ago. Don’t miss all this and more of today’s tech headlines.