Segments From This Episode

• Quibi is shutting down already

  “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks with “Marketplace Tech” host Molly Wood about mobile-focused Quibi shutting down after just six months of operation.

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• Are businesses automating at a faster rate thanks to COVID-19?

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  A forced digitization is taking place, as is a rethinking of how business should get done.

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• Customers want it now, and some apps are catering to those desires

  by Erika Beras

  

  Customers want their stuff on the same day they buy it. Instacart can make that happen for some smaller retailers.

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• “You work twice as hard to make half as much”

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  For Puerto Rico’s restaurant industry, COVID-19 is just the latest in a series of challenges.

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• New Baltimore development raises questions about what progress really means

  by Amy Scott

  

  Neighbors fear the affordable housing project will further concentrate poverty in a distressed neighborhood.

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• Satirist Tom Lehrer has put his songs into the public domain

  by Justin Ho

  

  Anyone’s now free to record or perform the 92-year-old songwriter’s parodies without owing royalties or consulting lawyers. And that’s not a joke.

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