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Dec 30, 2019

The tech trends of the 2010s

Plus: the trade deficit in goods shrank for the third straight month, California’s new data privacy law kicks in at the start of the new year and a nurse navigates finances in her semiretirement.

Visitors take images of Huawei's foldable 5G smartphone, the Mate X, at the Mobile World Congress in February in Barcelona.
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Segments From This Episode

The year in the tech economy
by Molly Wood
Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
That was challenging. Now for tech’s next act…
Figuring out how to spend free time after retiring from nursing
by Bennett Purser
Arthur Tanner/Fox Photos/Getty Images
After a busy life as a registered nurse, Patricia Carney is taking time for herself.
A flower shop in Maine roots for newly arrived refugees
by Bridget Bodnar and Kimberly Adams
Amy Toensing
In Cynthia Anderson’s “Home Now,” Somalis and Congolese transform a former mill town. At a flower shop there, wariness turns to warmth.
Trade gap in goods sinks for third consecutive month
by Andy Uhler
Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
The causes? The trade war and a slowing global economy.