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A new tech guru for the Grand Old Party
David Gura Mar 18, 2013
The Republican party is looking for a chief technology officer as part of an effort to win more state and national elections.
Patent race: Patent rules switch from first-to-invent to first-to-file
Krissy Clark Mar 18, 2013
Monday is the first day on which patents will be awarded to the first filer of the patent not the first person to come up with an idea. Many worry this will favor applicants with big money behind them.
Better, stronger, faster: How close are we to becoming cyborgs?
Will Oremus Mar 15, 2013
Science fiction loves the merger of the human body and machine. In mid-March 2013, what's the status of the merger? Will Oremus, a writer for Slate who has been working on a series about using tech to build better people, joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to explain how far we've come and where we are headed.
Netflix offers $100,000 prize in cloud competition
David Brancaccio Mar 15, 2013
Netflix is waving around $100,000 dollars in prize money for people with the best ideas to tune up and improve Netflix's data cloud. Netflix cloud systems director of architecture Alex Cockcroft joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to talk through the challenges of managing the company's remote data.
@Mayor: Cory Booker on the power of technology
David Brancaccio Mar 13, 2013
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker talks to Marketplace Tech about his new social media start-up and why he tweets so much.
Internet creator Tim Berners-Lee: Copyright Alert System is bad for democracy
David Brancaccio Mar 12, 2013
Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee speaks out about the importance of an open Internet and why Internet service providers should back off from their new Copyright Alert System.
Michael Dell on taking Dell private and moving beyond PCs
David Brancaccio Mar 11, 2013
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of computer and computer services giant Dell shares his thoughts on the future of PCs and how Dell fits into an age of mobile and cloud computing.
Opening up the tech world to women
David Brancaccio Mar 8, 2013
Jessica Lawrence, director of NY Tech Meet Up, shares her views on the tech community in New York and whether or not the tech world is a boy's club.
At South by Southwest, techies are the new rock stars
David Brancaccio Mar 8, 2013
What was first known as an indie music gathering and then a music and film festival, starts out this year as very much an interactive, startup, new media hotspot.
Facebook experiments with free Wi-Fi, for a price
Queena Kim Mar 7, 2013
The social network has started offering free Internet in a few places. The catch? It makes it easier for advertisers to find you.
