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Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Oct 14, 2015

Episodes 2671 - 2680 of 4268

  • Airing on Tuesday, October 13, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Chinese private equity groups investing in early-stage tech startups; the government and big heads of tech companies’ meeting on the sharing economy; and what creating a sound design palette means for companies like Skype.

  • Airing on Monday, October 12, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about the generation that’s never paid for cable; why so many companies are chasing YouTube’s ad revenue; and the virtual reality film festival that’s heading to New York.

  • Airing on Friday, October 9, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Dell entering the cloud computing arena; Verizon raising the cost of unlimited data; and we’ll play Silicon Tally with David Plotz, CEO of Atlas Obscura.

  • Airing on Thursday, October 8, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Google’s so-called Accelerated Mobile Pages; Pandora’s acquisition of live event ticketing company TicketFly; and Kim Dotcom’s extradition trial in New Zealand.  

  • Airing on Wednesday, October 7, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Microsoft’s big new hardware event with Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate VP of Window and Devices Group at Microsoft; and the return of one of Reddit’s co-founders. 

  • Airing on Tuesday, October 6, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Microsoft’s newest phones; news that Jack Dorsey will serve as Twitter CEO; and a possible bus strike in San Francisco.

  • Airing on Monday, October 5, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Netflix teaming up with airlines to offer streaming on certain flights; new tech used to date 170,000 year old fossils; and we’ll take a look at digital breadcrumbs possibly left on 4chan by the Oregon gunman.

  • Airing on Friday, October 2, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about the data train of ads when viewing news sites on mobile; and Ina Fried, senior editor at Re/code, joins us to play Silicon Tally.

  • Airing on Thursday, October 1, 2015: On today’s show, we’ll talk about the challenge of running two companies at once; why Google wants its cars to drive less perfectly; and why Michelin stars are a great honor, but not as helpful to the average diner as Yelp.

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Every weekday morning, Marketplace Tech demystifies the digital economy. The radio show and podcast explain how tech influences our lives in unexpected ways and provides context for listeners who care about the impact of tech, business and the digital world.

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