Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015

Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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Airing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015: First up on today's show, we'll talk about a sex discrimination suit in Silicon Valley involving the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins which opens another window on complaints that women are treated unequally in the tech world. We'll also talk to Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Michigan, about why cable companies aren’t worried about cord cutters. And Steve Gannon, one of the authors selected for the Kindle Scouts program, talks about being an author on Amazon.

 

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Crowd-sourcing hits the bookshelf

Feb 25, 2015
Kindle Scout, Amazon’s new online publishing platform, to release books.

Airing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk about a sex discrimination suit in Silicon Valley involving the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins which opens another window on complaints that women are treated unequally in the tech world. We’ll also talk to Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Michigan, about why cable companies aren’t worried about cord cutters. And Steve Gannon, one of the authors selected for the Kindle Scouts program, talks about being an author on Amazon.

 

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