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Aug 4, 2016
Marketplace Tech for Thursday, August 4, 2016
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On today's show, we'll talk about the possibility that Wal-Mart may purchase Jet.com — an e-commerce company — for $3 billion; a new report that says an increasing number of people are buying goods without a bank account; and the death of Seymour Papert, a mathematician and educational theorist who co-created the programming language LOGO.
On today’s show, we’ll talk about the possibility that Wal-Mart may purchase Jet.com — an e-commerce company — for $3 billion; a new report that says an increasing number of people are buying goods without a bank account; and the death of Seymour Papert, a mathematician and educational theorist who co-created the programming language LOGO.
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