TNW 161: Slack, May the Salesforce Be with You - The Gift of Surveillance, TikTok's Testing 3-Minute Videos - a podcast by TWiT

The gift of surveillance, TikTok's testing 3-minute videos

• Alex Wilhelm from Techcrunch discussed Salesforce's acquisition of Slack and what kind of competition they face from Microsoft Teams.


• Thomas Smith from Debugger warns gift-givers of buying their loved ones tech gifts that also act as potential surveillance devices.


• Abrar Al-Heeti from CNET shares an experimental feature in TikTok that is bringing three minute videos to the platform for the first time.


• Warner Brothers announced that it would release its entire 2021 film on HBO Max on the same day as movie theaters.


• Twitter has put the new threaded replies feature to bed after users complained they were difficult to follow.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Thomas Smith, and Abrar Al-Heeti

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