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112: Spending Billions in a Snap

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Companies are spending billions of dollars in an effort to set themselves apart from the competition. For example, Apple is spending billions in specialized manufacturing parts. Facebook is trying to spend billions of buy competing mobile apps.

We also talk about graphene’s super capacitor potential, Coin’s card that lets you hold 8 cards at once, Sony’s Playstation 4, Dropbox’s new business accounts, Android’s market share and the overall mobile fight, Facebook’s attempt to buy SnapChat, Apple’s massive investments in manufacturing, Automatic’s car data tracker, and MIT’s dynamic shape display called inFORM.

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106: Surprise Expectations

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This week’s episode contained many surprises. Not! In reality, everything is falling together just as we expected.

Facebook finally updates Graph Search to include posts, Snapchat allows pictures to live for 24 hours in Stories, Intel shows off their new Arduino computer, the Silk Road gets busted by the FBI, and Tesla’s Model S catches on fire, Samsung’s Galaxy Gear gets reviewed, HTC in talks with Microsoft about dual booting to Windows Phone 8, and Twitter’s IPO details go public.

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102d: Are you ready for Tuesday?

We sure are. So is the rest of the tech community. Apple managed to wait long enough that now expectations are super high, or super low, depending on what you read.

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102: Fiscal Responsibility

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Buying all the latest tech can get pretty expensive fast. Despite all our excitement for everything new coming out, we still encourage people, can companies, to practice fiscal responsibility.

Elon Musk shows off how SpaceX using Leap Motion, North Carolina University invents strong glue for solar panels, Microsoft buys Nokia, Samsung officially unveils the Galaxy Gear, we pine over Apple’s new iPhone, we try to guess which start up will be the next big thing (Spoiler: Oculus Rift), HDMI 2.0 for 3D 4K video transfer and Intel’s fiber optic breakthrough.

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88d: Yahoo wants to sell you based on data

In order to get data, they need to have services. Hence the buying spree.

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88: The Unbearable Lightness of Advertising

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We managed to almost completely ignore D11 this week. Though, we did stick in a couple stores about Apple and Mary Meeker.

We also talked about light canceling fiber optics, the 49er’s new stadium, HTC’s advertising problem, Yahoo’s strategy of buying a ton of companies, Freescale’s ant-sized SoC, Apple’s new iPod Touch, Sony’s electronic loses, the Sun-Times photographer firing, and Intel’s new Haswell chips.

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85d: If you don’t turn your device off during take-off, you’re a horrible person

But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Actually, the rule is kind of horrible.

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85: Electrical Storm Cloud

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Despite storm clouds facing Tesla, the automaker turned a profit for the first time. Congrats! Now hurry up and make the autopilot cars for under $30K.

Until then, we’ll get excited about RunKeeper’s Pebble app, Facebook and Google changing Intel’s CPU technology, Adobe’s shift to the cloud, Apple’s success in Japan, and the FAA potentially lifting electronic use bans during takeoff and landing.

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Why Is This Fun?

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Episode 65! Mayans were wrong! Netflix encodes each movie 120 times, Kodak sells their patents to everyone, Facebook copies Snapchat with Poke, IBM predicts what will happen in 5 years, the new SimCity requires an Internet connections, Instagram changes their TOS.

 

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