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Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Apr 22, 2015

Episodes 3021 - 3030 of 4493

  • Airing on Tuesday, April 21, 2015: First up, we’ll talk with Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of cnet.com, about Mobilegeddon. Then, David Chao, Co-Founder and General Partner at DCM Ventures, join us to talk about investing in the marijuana market. And Keith McCarty, CEO and founder of Eaze (“Uber for pot”), on building technology for the marijuana market.

  • Airing on Monday, April 20, 2015:  First up, we speak with Chester Wisniewski, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos, about the RSA security conference, which starts today. Next, Jenna Wortham, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, joins us to talk about The Shade Room, Instagram’s TMZ.   

  • Airing on Friday, April 17, 2015:  First, we talk with Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman of the FTC, about regulating the sharing economy. And this week, we play Silicon Tally with Annalee Newitz, Editor-In-Chief of Gizmodo. 

  • Airing on Thursday, April 16, 2015:  First up, we talk to Santosh Rao, head of research at Manhattan Venture Partners, about Etsy’s IPO. Next up is James Grimmelmann, Law Professor at the University of Maryland, talking about the antitrust charges Google is facing in the EU. Finally, we take a look at what happens when PayPal is incompatible with another country’s banking system.

  • Airing on Wednesday, April 15, 2015: First up, we talk to Carissa Christensen, managing partner at the Tauri Group, about the Space X launching and landing. Next, Marketplace’s Molly Wood explains why the Apple Watch is a beta version of smartwatches to come. We’ll also talk to Walter Woodman, co-director of the short film Noah, about the challenges of directing a movie where every scene unfolds on a computer screen. 

  • Airing on Tuesday, April 14, 2015: First up, we talk to Dan Hutcheson, CEO of VLSI research, about Intel and the chip market for the Internet of Things. We also talk with Kelly Goldsmith, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University, about The Reddit Button. And Sara Sorcher, Cybersecurity Editor at The Christian Science Monitor, joins us to talk about why states are trying to lure companies to create the Silicon Valley of Cybersecurity.

  • Airing on Monday, April 13, 2015: First up, we talk with Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Michigan, about Google’s anti-spoiler patent. Next, we hear about a bill passed last week in Gerogia to renew tax credit for video gaming companies for another three years. WABE’s Tasnim Shamma reports on why that’s just one reason more and more gamers are choosing to call metro-Atlanta home. We’ll also hear from Marketplace’s Meg Cramer about the circus at the Apple Store on the first day of Apple Watch try-ons.   

  • Airing on Friday, April 10, 2015:  First up, we talk with Lindsey Turrentine, editor-in-chief of CNET.com, about the Apple Watch showroom, and why the company wants you to shop for a smart watch the same way you shop for new kitchen cabinets. And for this week’s edition of Silicon Tally, we are joined by Jason Scott, the curator of the Internet Arcade.  

  • Airing on Thursday, April 9, 2015: The big book publisher of the world who have battled ferociously with Amazon over issues like e-book pricing might rather you start shopping with another company. Oysterbooks.com is described as the Netflix of books, the subscription e-book service now has a place where you can actually buy e-books. We check whether it can compete with Amazon. Next, we watch the movie Ex Machina, an independent film about artificial intelligence and deadly robots that hits theaters this weekend. For that, we talk to the director and writer Alex Garland on all things sci-fi and AI. 

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