First up, NY Times tech columnist Molly Wood joins us to talk about online shopping for gadgets. Then, we talk to YouTube power user Mike Tompkins about his acapella remixes of popular songs.

A lot of people are opting to avoid shopping on Black Friday altogether – or at least to stay at home and shop in their PJs. We weigh the safety of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, especially in regards to hacking. Then, robotics expert Ryan Calo enjoys us to play Silicon Tally. 

First up: European Union is voting Thursday on the extent to which Google can promote its own services in search results. Google has a 95 percent market share in Europe, and while today’s vote is nonbinding, it could build momentum to break up the tech giant. Then we take a look inside the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, quite literally: how do they get those giant balloon characters filled up every year? Finally, Ben chats with the Atlantic’s Alex Oosola about the way women of different races see opportunities in STEM fields.

First up, host Ben Johnson visits a hacker house in the Kansas City Startup Village, where he talks with Home For Hackers founder Ben Barreth and residents Chris Baran and Bryce Lenhart, from TravelingNuker.com. Then, Max Read, Editor-In-Chief of Gawker, joins us to talk about how the site moderated racist and hateful comments on a post about the Grand Jury ruling on Darren Wilson.

First up, Cesar Pérez Barnés, partner and the head of the Mexico office of the Southern Cross Group, joins us to talk about coaching and funding startups in developing markets. Then, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor in Chief of Cnet.com, talks about Google Play’s app store standards and what happens when bad apps sneak in. And Harry Coghlan, President and General Manager of Clear Channel Outdoor New York talks the largest digital display billboard in Times Square. 

On today’s show, Will Oremus, Senior Technology writer at Slate, talks about why Yahoo and Mozilla struck a deal over search for Mozilla’s Firefox browser – and why Yahoo is returning to search after so many years of stocks and sports. Plus, Eva Galperin, global policy analyst with the electronic frontier foundation, joins us to talk about a new tool that helps activists and journalists protect themselves from government malware. Last up, we explore Estonia’s announcement that they will allow foreigners to apply for a special e-residency program, giving them access to world-leading digital services from all over the world.

First up, we talk to Jeanette Hill, founder and CEO of Spot On Sciences, a company that makes at home blood sample kits. And just in time for Thanskgiving, it’s a special food-themed edition of Silicon Tally. Marty Van Ness, Supervisor of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, takes on Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson in this week’s quiz. How well have you kept up with the week in tech news?

First up, Marketplace LearningCurve’s Adriene Hill joins Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson to talk about a new report on student data spending at the state level, and why states are beginning to make bigger investments in student data systems and training. Then, Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter for the New York Times, talks about “keepsake passwords” – the passwords we encode with meaning to remind or motivate us as we do our daily login.

On today’s show: the Carnival Corp, which owns Carnival and Princess cruises, among others, wants to move beyond an image tarnished most recently by a norovirus outbreak, and it wants the public’s help, through a social media and crowd sourced campaign. Sound risky? Well it is. Plus, Brian Krebs joins us to talk about his new book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.