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The Silicon Insider
by Tad Malone
A weekly overview of Silicon Valley and the tech industry, hosted by two industry veteran journalists, Michael S. Malone and Scott Budman
Episodes
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Silicon Insider Episode 56: Interview with Bill Davidow
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider, co-host Mike Malone conducts a compelling interview with Silicon Valley Pioneer, Tech Legend, and Venture Capitalist, Bill Davidow. Topics include the consequences of freeware and social media communication, the valley then versus now, and more.
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Silicon Insider Episode 55: Special Guest - Ed Clendaniel
Since co-host Scott Budman is out of town this week, Mike enlists veteran South Bay Journalist Ed Clendaniel (Editor of the Editorial Page at The San Jose Mercury News) for an conversation about the state of the Silicon Valley.
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Silicon Insider Episode 54: The Great Equalizer
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott attempt to make sense of one of the strangest and scariest weeks in modern American History.
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Silicon Insider Episode 53: You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
Topics for this week include: Elon Musk's gobsmacking profits and potential road to redemption, the deep ramifications of Presidents Trumps threats to the tech industry, particularly twitter, California Unemployment rates hit two-month low, HBO officially enters the streaming wars, and much more.
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Silicon Insider Episode 52: Has it Really Been a Year?
On this week's (one year anniversary episode!) of The Silicon Insider Podcast, hosts Mike Malone and Scott Budman discuss the latest with life under lockdown and how it's fairing for the tech industry. Topics include: a growing legion of tech companies telling employees they can work from home...
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Silicon Insider Episode 51: Paradigm Shift
On the latest episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, we switch it up. Though still covering the week's biggest tech headlines, host's Mike Malone and Scott Budman stretch their legs this time and discuss at-length the state of the outbreak and the potential resulting paradigm shifts. Other…
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Silicon Insider Episode 50
On the 50th Episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast (time flies), Mike and Scott discuss the latest in tech, including video game industry growth, Peleton success, Uber failure, Silicon Valley real estate stasis, and more.
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Silicon Insider Episode 49: Ronacoaster
On this week's episode, Mike and Scott attempt to recap a particularly wild week in Corona-stricken California and the greater tech world. Topics include: the sudden shift to driverless cars and drones for delivery work, earnings again (somehow), Musk's manic episode, more tech layoffs, NASA's...
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Silicon Insider Episode 48: Be Wary of Miracles
Mike and Scott ponder the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on culture, social interaction and our collective memory as novel concepts like ‘social distancing’ transform into the status quo. Other topics include impressive tech earnings, Zoom's continual growth even after the backlash,...
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Silicon Insider Episode 47: The Phantom Taste of Stasis
On this week's epsiode, Mike and Scott discuss the tech industry’s oddly normal news week as it sees stock market’s best week in nearly half a century. Meanwhile, unemployment grows and grows. The increasingly certain question remains: when will the economy crash? Other topics include: Google…
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Silicon Insider Episode 46: Tech Steps Up
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, hosts Mike Malone and Scott Budman are hunkered down in their respective compounds, waiting like the rest of us for the pandemic to peter out. Today's topics include: telecommuting takes over, Zoom lives down its security scarlet letter, the...
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Silicon Insider Episode 45 - Meddling with the Primal Forces of Nature
On the latest Silicon Insider Podcast, now a few weeks into the Coronavirus quarantine, Mike and Scott analyze the nation's--and tech's--response to the increasingly frightening, society disrupting pandemic. Topics include the staggering, historically high unemployment numbers, the rapid,...
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Silicon Insider Episode 44: Quarantine Blues
On this week's episode of the Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss another week of Coronavirus chaos as the virus shutters society and radically transforms the economy. Topics include record unemployment, tech companies stepping up to produce much-needed health supplies, the $2…
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Silicon Insider Episode 43: Modelovirus
Another week, another step towards the complete paralysis of society. Even though the entire state of California is under quarantine, The Silicon Insider Podcast is back with a new episode. This week, Mike and Scott survey the various ways tech companies are adapting to the new reality or...
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Silicon Insider Episode 42: No End in Sight
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott reckon with another week of increasingly concerning news about the coronavirus pandemic. What was speculation has quickly transformed into sober reality, with the virus effectively grinding the tech world, the economy, and...
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Silicon Insider Episode 41: Is It Cancelled Yet (.com)?
On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss the increasing coronavirus disruptions to tech, media festivals, the stock market, and more. Other topics include increasing scrutiny over Twitter, particularly its leadership, the unveiling of TCL's bendable screen cellphones, HP's rebuff of Xerox's...
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Episode 40: Tech and a Global Pandemic
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott reckon with everything from the tech fallout from the coronavirus pandemic to a potentially landmark case ruling private forums like YouTube are not protected by the First Amendment, and much more.
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Silicon Insider Episode 39: Space, Epidemics, and Litigation
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss space travel, coronavirus and its increasing effects on Silicon Valley, a new lawsuit against Google, and much more.
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Silicon Insider Episode 38: Valentine's Day
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast (Valentine's Day Edition), Mike and Scott discuss the growing prosperity in tech, particularly in Silicon Valley, its paradoxical consequences, and much more.
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Silicon Insider Episode 37: Pandemonium, the App
On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss the fiasco surrounding the app used for voting in the Iowa Caucus, the tech ramifications of the Corona Virus chaos, and more.
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The Silicon Insider Episode 35: Earnings Abound
On this week's episode Mike and Scott delve deep into the just-released earnings reports for the major tech companies. How did they figure? Guess you will just have to listen and find out!
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Silicon Insider Episode 35 - Even Lex Luthor Has a Kryptonite
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss the hacking of Jeff Bezos, its ties to the Saudi Royal Family--all just rife for conspiracy theory, earnings reports from Intel (surprisingly good) and Netflix (still showing growth but with the enemy looming larger and...
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Silicon Insider Episode 34: Nothing is Free
On the latest episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss the revelation that dating sites like Tinder have been selling intimate information to advertisers, the streaming wars heating up even more, the lack of tact in tech when it comes to the job application process, and much...
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The Silicon Insider Podcast Episode 33: I Want My Flying Car!
On this week's episode (recorded on new fancy microphones), Mike and Scott discuss flying cars and other CES notables, now-expected Facebook follies, major Tesla success, and Airbnb's new Santa Clara home, among many other topics.
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The Silicon Insider Episode 32
New year, same outlandish, bordering on absurd developments in Silicon Valley and greater tech. This week, Mike and Scott discuss everything from the long-overdue ousting of Travis Kalinack from UBER, Tesla's opening of a factory in China, how everyone is getting screwed out of fiber-optic...
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The Silicon Insider Episode 31: Happy Holidays
On this week's episode and the last of 2019, Mike and Scott dive into the latest in tech and the Valley. Topics include the implausibly prosperous US economy including stock market highs thanks to tech companies, Facebook revealing the (presumably record-breaking) hack of over 250 million user's...
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Silicon Insider Episode 30: Mergers and Malpositions
On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss Zuckerberg's aim of merging Instagram and Whatsapp plus possible FTC interference, the motives behind Tesla's Aztec-inspired Cybertruck, Apple's new Macbook and it's absurd $50,000 price tag, and much more.
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The Silicon Insider Episode 29: Silicon Valley Heads to Court
On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss Google founders Sergey and Larry stepping down from Google's parent company, Alphabet, the Aramco IPO and its Saudi connections, Uber's internal classism, the sexual harassment case against Lyft, Elon Musk's increasingly absurd 'Pedo Guy Trial, the...
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Episode 28: Tesla's Ugly Truck, Google's Chaotic Stadia, and WeWork's Continual Fall from Grace
On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss the unveiling of Tesla's new Brutalist Architecture/Pontiac Aztek-inspired pick-up truck, the disastrous launch of Google's cloud gaming service, Stadia, even more alarming and potentially fraudulent chaos left in the...
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A weekly overview of Silicon Valley and the tech industry, hosted by two industry veteran journalists, Michael S. Malone and Scott Budman
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Tad Malone
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