Marketplace Tech for Thursday, August 14, 2014
First up, Susan Crawford, a visiting professor at Harvard Law school and author of "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," talks about the FCC’s plans to overturn state laws that prohibit cities from offering municipal broadband services. Then, Will Oremus, Senior Tech Correspondent at Slate, stops by to talk about tracking mobile users across apps for advertising purposes. Finally, we examine the shift to digital projection in movie theaters.
First up, Susan Crawford, a visiting professor at Harvard Law school and author of “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age,” talks about the FCC’s plans to overturn state laws that prohibit cities from offering municipal broadband services. Then, Will Oremus, Senior Tech Correspondent at Slate, stops by to talk about tracking mobile users across apps for advertising purposes. Finally, we examine the shift to digital projection in movie theaters.
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