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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

  • Japanese researchers have developed a new camera that can swim in your colon, if that's something that sounds like a good idea in your mind. The…

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  • Social gaming giant Zynga plans to file for an initial public offering this week — hoping to raise up to $2 billion from investors. Marketplace Tech Report's John Moe explains.

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  • Jun 29, 2011

    Google + debuts

    Remember that +1 button Google introduced a few weeks back? Remember how nobody really knew what, exactly, +1-ing a site would do? Google+ is the…

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  • Jun 29, 2011

    Myspace update

    Looks like Specific Media is the front runner in the bid to acquire Myspace. Specific Media made a fortune, get this, as creators of the pop under…

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  • Jun 29, 2011

    Zynga going public

    The casual game maker is preparing for an IPO this week. That's all the rage with tech companies these days after LinkedIn's recent offering and…

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  • Jun 29, 2011

    Biz gets Obvious

    Biz Stone announced he's leaving Twitter and starting up his old start-up he had started before starting Twitter. Startling! Stone says he'll be…

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  • So what, so it's a video game that's on a phone, big deal. Yeah yeah, I know. But I think this says a lot about Microsoft right now. Angry Birds…

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  • No jokes please about New York always having an element of Risk. A group of hackers (the fun kind, not the steal your credit card kind) have…

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  • As discussed on Marketplace Morning Report this morning, Microsoft is launching another effort to take on Google in the area of cloud computing, t…

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  • If that was Microsoft or Google, you wouldn't think twice about it. But Myspace only has about 400 employees as of today and by end of day tomorrow…

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