Google fires an engineer, France and Germany team up on US tech company tax avoidance, and why we overestimate progress in two years and underestimate ten. With Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt.

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Show Notes
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• Breaking News
  •  Disney will acquire majority ownership of BAMTech
• News You Should Know
  •  Uber plans to close Xchange Leasing program
  •  Spotify arrives on XBox One
• More Top Stories
  •  Google fires engineer who criticized diversity policies
    • Fired Google memo writer draws jeers, cheers and a job offer – Reuters
    • Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech – recode
    • Exclusive: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google – Gizmodo
    • The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo – The Atlantic
    • The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond – Quillette
  •  France, Germany among countries closing tax loopholes
  •  Ming-Chi Kuo updates iPhone release expectations
  •  Google Pixel 2 leaks allege curved glass, dual flash
  •  HBO attackers release more internal data, 3-day deadline
• Discussion
  •  We tend to tend to over estimate what can be achieved in 2 years and underestimate what can be done in 10
• Message of the Day
  •  Rolando – Mailvelope