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Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Jul 29, 2015

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  • Airing on Tuesday, July 28, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Will Oremus, Senior Tech Writer at Slate, about Twitter’s hunt for a new CEO ahead of the company’s earnings report. And, Dan Ackerman, Editor at CNET, will explain why Microsoft is taking the Apple approach to its newest software update. We’ll also hear from Amy Grace, Head of Wind research at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, about the Deepwater Wind project off the coast of Block Island in Rhode Island. 

  • Airing on Monday, July 27, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with John Wheeler, Director of Research at Gartner, about the growth of the cyber insurance market, and uncertainties about how it will change. Next, we’ll look at Gawker’s business model after news that the site will be re-launched next week as a kinder, gentler version of itself. And sound artist Sabisha Friedberg talks about machines and accidental music for the next installment in our Noise Makers series.

  • Airing on Friday, July 24, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Marketplace’s Adriene Hill about Hollywood’s many failed video game tie-ins. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for another installment of Silicon Tally. Marketplace’s Molly Wood will try to stump Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, with numbers from the week’s tech news.

  • Airing on Thursday, July 23, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Sucharita Mulpuru, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, about Amazon ahead of its earnings call. We’ll also pay a visit to Minnie Ingersoll, Co-founder and COO of the secondhand car company Shift, at the company’s used-car warehouse. And Portland Oregon’s two defining cultures — tech and bikes — have come together to improve transportation infrastructure, in the face of the city’s exceeding growth. A new app will anonymously track behaviors, preferred routes of cyclists along with 200 underground sensors placed throughout Portland to count all the cyclists who roll over them – with or without the app. 

  • Airing on Wednesday, July 22, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Van Baker, Research VP at Gartner, about Apple earnings. We’ll also hear from Christopher Koopman, research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, about the shutdown of the Uber-like cleaning company Homejoy. We’ll also talk about an advocacy group in Chicago creating a Yelp-like service for transgender people. 

  • Airing on Tuesday, July 21, 2015: First up, we’ll ask what will people be watching for Apples reports quarter earnings, and where the Watch figures in. We’ll also talk to Ryan Calo, Assistant Law Professor at the University of Washington and an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, about why it’s so difficult to enforce drone regulations. And Kyle Wiens, CEO of the computer repair site iFixit, joins us to talk about why PC users won’t need to upgrade their hardware when they make the switch to Windows 10.

  • Airing on Monday, July 20, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Richard Fichera, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, about IBM’s plan shit to strategic partnerships and away running costly businesses in-house. Next: by the end of the year, some 106 million Blue Cross Blue Shield consumers will have identity protection services that include credit monitoring, fraud detection and fraud resolution. We look at the costs, and whether this amounts to an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. Plus, we’ll take a tour of the visible internet infrastructure in Lower Manhattan with Ingrid Burrington, a fellow at the Data & Society Institute.

  • Airing on Friday, July 17, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Pai-Ling Yin, from the Stanford Center for Economic Policy Research, about Google earnings. Next, singer-songwriter Neko Case talks about her favorite piece of gear, a Fender Jazzmaster guitar, as part of Marketplace Tech’s “Noise Makers” series. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, host Ben Johnson takes on Alex Fitzpatrick, Deputy Tech Editor at Time.  

  • Airing on Thursday, July 16, 2015: First up, we’ll hear about if Google’s reigning in its costs after indications this week that the company may be hiring fewer people. We’ll also speak with Michael Liimatta, President of Connecting for Good, about connecting low-income communities to broadband services. And we’ll talk with Matt Novak of Gizmodo’s Paleofuture Blog about Holofilms for our Back to the Future Part II series.  

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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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