Episode 537: YOLO acquisitions

This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 537

Runner-up Titles

"I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
Matt Ray comes off the top rope
We are in that demographic
Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
No Translation Needed
Do we have a fashion channel?
Why not us too?
Let’s just try it
Hooters adjacent tech story
Pay-per-crawl.
I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
Cool, copyright, I love it
Just lots of weird stuff going on.
Y’all are weird

Rundown

Final thought on Australia
Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million
VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide
An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18

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SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
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Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
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Listener Feedback

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Conferences

VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

SDT News & Community

Join our Slack community
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YOLO acquisitions

Episode 537

September 12th, 2025

1 hr 6 mins

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About this Episode

This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 537

Runner-up Titles

• "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”

• Matt Ray comes off the top rope

• We are in that demographic

• Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.

• No Translation Needed

• Do we have a fashion channel?

• Why not us too?

• Let’s just try it

• Hooters adjacent tech story

• Pay-per-crawl.

• I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does

• Cool, copyright, I love it

• Just lots of weird stuff going on.

• Y’all are weird

Rundown

• Final thought on Australia

• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million

• VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide

• An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl

• Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights

• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature

• Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue

• Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18

Relevant to your Interests

• Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost

• Privacy Nightmare: Your Doorbell Camera Is Snitching to Insurance Companies

• Broadcom Stock Soars as AI Demand Drives Strong Earnings—Crucial Price Levels to Monitor

• Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

• Exclusive | Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate

• SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service

• Google Cloud CEO sees sunny prospects thanks to AI demand

• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights

• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature

• Claude can now create and use files

• The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time

Nonsense

• 2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year

• Ground staff strike: KLM cancels over 100 flights on Wednesday - DutchNews.nl

Listener Feedback

• Carless People

• What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t

Conferences

• VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.

• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.

• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.

• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.

• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.

• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19

• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community

• Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com

• Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com

• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky

• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté

• Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com

Recommendations

• Brandon: Python: The Documentary | An origin story

• Matt: macOS - Sound Output → another computer beats using a headphone switcher

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