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Silicon Valley Beat

by Annie Gaus

An inside look at today's tech and business news, brought to you by Silicon Valley journalist Annie Gaus | This podcast was created in Anchor. To make your own podcast for free, visit https://anchor.fm/svb

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Episodes

  1. A New CEO for Apple?

    Could Apple Have A New CEO soon? If you want 500k/year, be an AI specialist. Google Pixel users report a terrible noise.

  2. Walmart Wants to Deliver, Put Away Your Groceries

    Music Streaming Up 48% This Year, Revenues Spiking: Report • Walmart Wants to Deliver, Put Away Your Groceries For You

  3. How Bad Do You Need a $350 Smart Jean Jacket?

    Apple's Siri Dumps Bing Search for Google • Do You Need a $350 Smart Jean Jacket? • Facebook + Microsoft Complete Massive Undersea Cables

  4. Equifax CEO 'Retires', Gets $90 Million After Hacking Disgrace

    Twitter Freaks Out Over New 280-Character Limits • Equifax CEO 'Retires', Gets $90 Million • Bill Gates Reveals He's an Android Guy

  5. Amazon Shows off New Alexa Devices, Uber Shuts Down Controversial Auto Leasing Exchange

    Amazon Shows Off New Echos, Alexa Devices • Uber Shuts Down Controversial Auto Leasing Program

  6. Ex-Uber CEO Shocks Board by Naming Board Members By Surprise

    Google is Building an Echo Show Competitor, Codenamed 'Manhattan' • Ex-Uber CEO Shocks Board by Naming Two New Directors

  7. Better Go Check Your Mac's Firmware: Security Experts

    Go Check Your Mac's Firmware, Security Researchers Warn

  8. IKEA Buys On-Demand App Taskrabbit

    IKEA Buys On-Demand App Taskrabbit

  9. Mattel Cancels 'AI BabySitter' After Spying Fears, Google Intros Pixel Buds

    Google Says 'Pixel Buds' Translates 40 Languages in Real Time • Mattel Cancels 'AI BabySitter', Aristotle, After Privacy Outcry

  10. Amazon May Sell You Drugs Someday

    T-Mobile + Sprint Merger Could Happen Very Soon: REPORT • Hulu Bets on Original eSports Video • Amazon Might Sell You Drugs Someday

  11. Zuckerberg Apologies After Awkward VR Demo, Lebron James Reps Self-Driving Cars

    Oops: Security Flaw in Google Home Mini Could Listen to You 24/7 • Scared of Self-Driving Cars? Lebron James Says Don't Be • Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes After Super Awkward VR Demo

  12. Google Yanks Home Mini Feature After Embarrassing Bug; Teens Love iPhone X

    Teens are Way Excited for the iPhone X • Google Pulls Home Mini Feature After Embarrassing Bug

  13. For $36K, Amazon Wants to Sell You a House

    For $36K, You Can Buy an Entire House on Amazon • Alphabet's 'Project Loon' Wants to Beam Internet Around the World • Twitter Promises 'Aggressive' Stance on Hate, Bullying

  14. Tesla Fires 100s Of Workers

    Tesla fires hundreds, blaming poor performance, Facebook buys teen app TBH

  15. Instagram Bug Targets Celebs

    PayPal has a new cash back credit card, smartwatches are on the rise, and a bug targets "high profile" Instagram users

  16. Alexa + Cortana = New BFFs

    Alexa and Cortana are new besties, UBER CEO's IPO plans, and a massive email screwup by Essential

  17. Fitbit's New $300 Smartwatch

    Fitbit reveals $300 watch, Amazon pushes Echoes at Whole Foods, and Facebook's fake news fight

  18. Uber Picks A New CEO

    Uber has a new CEO, and why people aren't downloading apps anymore

  19. Apple to Blow $1B On Video

    Apple plans to spend $1B on original shows, Color Genomics raises $80M, and Google's pollen play

  20. Study: 67% Of You Are Sexters

    Uber agrees to 20 years of FTC privacy audits, study reveals that 67% of you sext

  21. Dota 2 Champion Defeated By AI

    Google may buy a digital health startup Senosis, and a Dota 2 champ falls to an AI

  22. Coinbase Scores $100M

    Coinbase gets $100M to bring crypto to the masses, ousted Uber CEO sued for fraud, and how Instagram posts might reveal depression.

  23. Tech Hiring In The Trump Era

    Silicon Valley is Spooked on Hiring Foreign Tech Workers: Study • Hired CEO Mehul Patel on Tech Hiring in the Trump Era

  24. Facebook Kills App For Teens

    Google CEO's Vacation Ruined by Viral Manifesto • CALL IN: Google's Free Speech Policies • Facebook Kills Teen App, 'Lifestage' • CALL IN: Snap Drones a Good Move? • Snap: Is the hardware play a good idea?? 💭 💭 💭

  25. Googler Fired For Viral Screed

    Netflix Makes First-Ever Acquisition – of Comic Book Maker • Hackers Demand $6M Ransom for HBO 'Game of Thrones' Leaks • Google Engineer Fired for Strange, Viral Manifesto

  26. Yelp Sells Eat24 For $287M

    Yelp is Selling Off Delivery Service Eat24 for $287M • Google Offered $30 Billion To Buy Snap in 2016: Report • Trackr Raises $50 Million for 'Personal Organization'

  27. $1200 'Red Phone' All Hype?

    Is the $1200 'Red Phone' Worth the Hype? • Fitbit is Launching an 'App Gallery' + Smartwatch for Fall • PSA: Glittery iPhone Cases are Giving People Chemical Burns

  28. Bitcoin 'Forks' Into Two

    Snap Is Looking to Buy 'Selfie Drone' Maker: Report • Facebook is Building a 'Video Chat' Device for Your Living Room • Bitcoin Feud, 'Hard Fork' Splits the Currency into Two • CALL IN: Google a Monopoly? • Reply to Google Monopoly

  29. RIP, Microsoft Paint 🙏

    WebMD Sells For $2.8 Billion • Surprise: Alphabet is Still Making Mega Bucks • Microsoft Paint is Going Away...Or is it?

  30. Go To Space With Google Earth

    Delta Lets You Board Flights with Your Fingerprints • Google Earth Now Takes You to Space • any advice for others trying to document the startup scene in other cities? • CALL IN: Advice on Covering Tech?

  31. YouTube Has A New King

    Alphabet Launches New AI-Focused Venture Fund • Twitter Gets a New CFO (Finally) • Logitech Buys Astro Gaming for $85M, Aiming at Consoles • 'Gangnam Style' is No Longer the Most-Watched Youtube Video

  32. $35K Tesla Debuts, Snap Sinks

    Tesla's New $35K Model 3 Makes its Debut • Twitter Releases New Anti-Troll Blocking Tools • Snap's Shares Sink Below IPO Price, Worrying Investors • CALL IN: Can Snap Survive Long-Term?

  33. 2 Layoffs and a Liquidation: Soundcloud Cuts 40%, Jawbone Dies, and Microsoft Confirms Job C

    SoundCloud Lays Off 40% of Staff, Shuts Offices • How does pandora even think they have a viable biz model? • Jawbone is Going out of Business, Liquidating Assets • Microsoft Confirms Layoffs of 10% of Sales Force • Really great content!

  34. Uber Fires 20 After Harassment Probe, Apple's Reality Show, and Do Entrepreneurs Need to Be in Silic

    Uber Fires 20 People After Harassment Allegations • So Yeah, Apple Has a Reality Show Now • Homepod - Can they may a truly iHome • Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need to be in Silicon Valley? • Do SV investors care where the startup is? • Nope, Entrepreneurs Don't Need to be in Silicon Valley

  35. New Report Explains Why Siri is So Dumb

    Why is Siri Still So Dumb? New Report Explains • Sounds similar to Google Home

  36. Amazon Offers 45% Discount to Low-Income Consumers, Apple Vendors Caught Selling User Data on Black

    Amazon To Give 45% Discount to Lower-Income Consumers • Chinese Apple Vendors Caught Selling User Data for $7 Million on Black Market • More Than 2,000 Layoffs Expected in Yahoo/AOL Merger (Here Comes Oath)! • Uber to Buy Engineering Team at Struggling On-Demand Valet, Luxe

  37. Netflix Still Dominates Streaming Market, Texting + Walking Makes You Walk Weird (Says Science)

    Study: Texting While Walking Makes You Walk Funny • Screentime Addiction • Netflix is #1 Among Streamers by a Huge Margin: Comscore • Youtube tv vs netflix -The Peoples Paradise • Can Netflix + YouTube TV Coexist?

  38. Microsoft Layoffs on the Horizon, Apple Wants to Scan Your Face, and Facebook' Wifi Locator

    Microsoft Could Lay Off Thousands To Focus on Cloud Biz: Reports • New iPhone May Have Face Scanning Security Features • Facebook Helps You Find Free Wifi Hotspots

  39. Facebook Fake News Crackdown, Apple's New 'Mothership' Is Open for Visitors (Someday)

    Facebook Buries Spam Accounts That Post 50+ Times Per Day • Apple Park ! • CALL IN: Visiting Apple's New 'Mothership'

  40. The iPhone Turns 10, and Tech Investors Accused of Sexual Misconduct

    As the iPhone Turns 10, Its Creators Say We're Too Addicted to Screens • App Economy Will Pass $6 Trillion By 2021, Report Says • Prominent Tech Investors Accused of Sexual Misconduct • CALL IN: Is Blue Apron Worth It? • My Blue Apron Experience

  41. Google Sells off Scary Robot Maker to Softbank, Facebook Sharpens Up Political Targeting

    Bandwidth Use Will Triple in Next 5 Years, Thanks to Video Streaming (Report) • Google is Selling Terrifying Robot Makers to Japanese Telecom • Facebook Makes it Easier for Politicians to Target Constituents

  42. Houzz Raises $400M, SiriusXM Buys 19% of Pandora, and Uber CEO May Go on Leave

    SiriusXM Buys 19% of Struggling Pandora • Houzz Raises $400 Million • Uber CEO May Take Leave of Absence

  43. Billion-Dollar SF Startup Ditches Office, 'Sleep Tech' Explodes, More Details on 'Essential' Phone f

    Android Creator's 'Essential' Phone Will Be Sold Exclusively on Sprint • Sleep Tracker Sense Shuts Down, but Sleep Tech is Exploding • Billion-dollar S.F. Startup Gets Rid of its Office Entirely

  44. $4B Verizon + Yahoo Deal Closes, Uber CEO Takes 'Indefinite Leave of Absence'

    $4.5B Yahoo + Verizon Deal Finally Closes, Marissa Mayer Gets $186 Million • Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Takes "Indefinite" Leave of Absence • On Instagram, 93% of Celebrity Sponsored Posts Aren't Disclosed

  45. Instagram Cracks Down on Celebrity Shills, Facebook is Making Reality TV

    Instagram Cracks Down on Paid Celebrity Shills • No Shit: 77% of Consumers Want 'a la Carte' TV, According to TiVo • Now Facebook is Making Reality TV

  46. Slack Raises $500M, Facebook's Lying AI, and Snap's Sinking Stock

    Slack Raises $500M; Amazon Wants to Buy it, Reportedly • Facebook Built a Lying AI • Snap's Stock is Tanking, Freaking Out Investors

  47. Amazon Buys Whole Foods for $14B, Jeff Bezos Asks Twitter for Charity Ideas

    $14B Amazon + Whole Foods Deal Could Kill Delivery Startups • Jeff Bezos is Crowdsourcing Charity Ideas

  48. Alphabet Drops $30M on Worker Housing, Snap's $100M Content Deal, and Best Tech News Sites

    Snap + Time Warner Ink $100M Deal for Original Shows • A la carte tv • Alphabet is Dropping $30M on 'Modular Housing' for Employees • I'm sort of in between... You know? • Wherw are some places I can find great, fast, and accurate news? • Viewer Q: What are the Best Tech News Sites?

  49. Uber CEO Resigns, Google Helps You Find Work and New Anti-Aging Tech

    Travis Kalanick is Out as Uber CEO • Google Wants to Help You Find a Job • Why yes I do have a thought! • Viewer Q: Silicon Valley Takes on Anti-Aging Tech

  50. New Snapchat Feature Freaks out Parents, and Youtube TV Expands to 10 More Markets

    Why Snapchat's New SnapMaps Feature is Freaking People Out • Youtube TV Expands to 10 More Markets

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An inside look at today's tech and business news, brought to you by Silicon Valley journalist Annie Gaus | This podcast was created in Anchor. To make your own podcast for free, visit https://anchor.fm/svb

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