Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015

Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, February 24, 2015

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Airing on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015: Comcast, the country's  largest cable operator reports its earnings today. But the merger with Time Warner is still hanging in the balance? We'll talk about how that's going. Next, we have Nitasha Tikku, senior writer at The Verge, on the Unicorn Startup Explosion, how it affects us and where companies could fail. And then we speak with Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain about his open letter to Prime Minister Cameron explaining why banning encrypted messaging apps is a bad idea. 

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Who should have the key to your messages?

Feb 24, 2015
When it comes to accessing encrypted apps, some say it's double or nothing.

Airing on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015: Comcast, the country’s  largest cable operator reports its earnings today. But the merger with Time Warner is still hanging in the balance? We’ll talk about how that’s going. Next, we have Nitasha Tikku, senior writer at The Verge, on the Unicorn Startup Explosion, how it affects us and where companies could fail. And then we speak with Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain about his open letter to Prime Minister Cameron explaining why banning encrypted messaging apps is a bad idea. 

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