Soap Operas and Other TV Shows

In this episode we Segway effortlessly to the opera side of the tech world: Lawsuits, purchases and people leaving. Yep, we’re talking about Pandora, Aereo, Net Neutrality, Google+ and Nokia.

More specifically we talk about: James’ experience on a Segway, Graphene going into mass production, Pandora surviving the music industry, the FCC’s weird definition of net neutrality, Aereo’s fight for survival, Google+’s fight for survival, Nokia’s lost fight for survival, Apple’s massive stock split, Weight Watcher’s purchase of Wello, and HBO GO on Amazon.

• Wello Being Bought By Weight Watchers
• Why the music industry is trying—and failing—to crush Pandora
• Pandora reports Q1 loss, guidance hits sour note again
• Large Scale Graphene Manufacturing
• Apple Takes A Swing A Samsung In Full Page Ad
• Apple Will Do A 7 To 1 Stock Split In June
• HBO GO on Amazon Prime
• Is net neutrality dying? Has the FCC killed it? What comes next? Here’s what you need to know
• The FCC’s new net neutrality rules will kill Aereo, even if the Supreme Court doesn’t
• Microsoft Completed Nokia Acquisition
• Nokia’s Hardware Division To Become Microsoft Mobile
• Google+ Is Walking Dead
• Minus Its Leader, What’s Left at Google+?