Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGoogle is the latest FAANG to invest in India, Facebook might ban political ads, and civil rights advocate Rashad Robinson on the ad boycott
Episode 121
Kara and Scott talk about Google's big investment in India; it's the latest big tech company to make big moves in the country this year. They also di…
6 years, 2 months ago
Facebook fails a civil rights audit, college campuses will be "mini-Wuhans", and can the Trump admin ban TikTok?
Episode 120
Kara and Scott talk about an audit released about Facebook's lack of civil rights practices, the groups that have pushed them on moderating their pla…
6 years, 2 months ago
Uber buys Postmates, Taylor Lorenz talks Clubhouse, and Big Tech will testify in Congress — but Congress has already lost
Episode 119
Kara and Scott talk about Uber's acquisition of the food delivery company Postmates and what that means for the future of that market and the ride-ha…
6 years, 2 months ago
Facebook changes its speech policy, Amazon moves into driverless cars, and a Friend of Pivot on how suspension of visas will affect Silicon Valley
Episode 118
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook announcing it would change its policies around hate speech on the platform after mounting pressures from Civil Rig…
6 years, 2 months ago
Square withholds from its merchants; Twitch’s female streamers have had enough and a Listener Mail on contact tracing apps
Episode 117
Kara and Scott talk about how Square has been taking about 20% off of merchant transactions, as Jack Dorsey helms both Twitter and Square. Meanwhile,…
6 years, 2 months ago
TikTokers take down Trump in Tulsa, a former-Google exec starts an anti-Google Google and John Rice on how to get more Black people in leadership
Episode 117
Kara and Scott talk about TikTokers pranking Trump out of rally goers and a new potential competitor to Google's search engine. They also discuss mor…
6 years, 3 months ago
Twitter’s new audio innovation, Apple’s dominance gets a closer look and a prediction on the impact of online trading apps on mental health
Episode 116
Kara and Scott talk about Twitter's new feature that allows certain users to post audio recordings. They also get talk about Pinterest reconciling wi…
6 years, 3 months ago
Bezos offers to testify, COVID-19 infections are up and Suze Orman on why emergency savings are more important than ever
Episode 115
Kara and Scott talk about the possibility that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos might speak to the House Judiciary Committee as a part of a broad antitrust inve…
6 years, 3 months ago
Amazon suspends facial recognition technology, Starbuck’s closes 400 stores and a prediction on Apple and search
Episode 114
Kara and Scott talk about Amazon and IBM moving away from their facial recognition technology because of algorithm's known racial biases. They also d…
6 years, 3 months ago
Amazon warehouse workers issue lawsuit, Alexis Ohanian steps down from Reddit board and a deeper debate on Section 230
Episode 113
Kara and Scott talk about a new lawsuit waged by Amazon warehouse workers alleging the company did not follow CDC protocol well enough to stop the sp…
6 years, 3 months ago