Segments From This Episode

• Cracker Jack prizes are now a thing of the past

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  They will be replaced with QR codes for mobile games

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• How Cruz and Kasich are playing at game theory

  by Nova Safo

  

  It's a concept out of economists' — and poker players' — playbooks.

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• "Lemonade" and the business of Beyonce

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  University of Miami professor Serona Elton on Beyonce's latest surprise

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• SNL: Fewer ads, more ‘sponsored content’

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  NBC will reduce commercials in a bid to keep viewers from watching on new media platforms that let them skip the ads altogether.

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• Why corporate venture capital funds are so popular

  by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood

  Google has Google Ventures, Twitter has Twitter Ventures, Intel has Intel Capital, and the list goes on.

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• Turns out hedge funds have an incentive to control drug prices

  by Dan Gorenstein

  

  Hedge funds are joining groups who want to lower prescription prices for consumers.

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• A warning for parched China: a city runs out of water

  by Rob Schmitz

  

  A city suddenly without water highlights northern China's water shortage.

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