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John Moe

John Moe is the host of Marketplace Tech Report and handles web content for the program.  Every day, he provides an insightful overview of the latest tech news using his witty and approachable style of reporting.  Moe began working for Marketplace in May 2010, when he took over hosting Future Tense, which became Marketplace Tech Report four months later. Before joining Marketplace, he hosted Weekend America and hosted and produced programs at KUOW, the public radio station in Seattle.  Prior to working in public radio, he was a senior editor at Amazon.com. Moe has lived most of his life in Seattle, a perfect location to feed his long-standing fascination with technology.  Over the years he has worked on projects for Microsoft and has even wrote scripts for video games.  Moe holds a bachelor’s degree in Dramatic Arts from Whitman College, but because he gained such a broad education at the small liberal arts college, he considers himself a degree-holder in the school of “Being Curious.” Moe is currently based in St. Paul, Minn. and enjoys spending as much time as possible with his wife and three kids.  He is a widely published author, often focused on humor writings, and is the host of Wits™, a stage and radio series based out of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

Latest from John Moe

  • PayPal showed off its new payment system yesterday to a select group of retailers.. The company is betting that merchants will be more likely to…

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  • Sep 15, 2011

    Broadband grumbles

    Sure, everyone likes the IDEA of improved rural broadband. How to roll it out and pay for it? Well that's a bit of a sticky issue. Politico is…

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  • In July, Netflix said it expected to have 25 million customers by the end of the third quarter. But now the company says it will be more like 24…

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  • At a conference yesterday, Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer admitted for the first time that the Windows Phone hasn't been selling all that well. No…

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  • Google = Pac Man. Patents = little white pellets. Google's hope = some of those patents are the big blinking white pellets. Everyone Google's…

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  • I don't claim to be a mergers and acquisitions expert but it looks like Google's been buying its groceries at the convenience store. In other words…

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  • The Department of Justice has opened a case against eBay to see whether some of its employees used information from Craigslist to build a similar,…

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  • Researchers at Stanford University have invented a pain detector. They can now tell if someone is in pain using brain scans and that means they don…

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  • Fashionista-bargainistas, and apparently there is such a thing, crashed the Target site yesterday. The store launched a line for high-fashion brand…

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  • Sep 14, 2011

    Google takes off

    Google launched Flight Search yesterday. It's a Kayak-like service that shows flight information when you type departure and landing points into…

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