Weekend listening - Fitbit IPO, Dave Goldberg, tech investing
Paste BN tech podcast collection includes roundtables and interviews
LOS ANGELES - This week our tech podcasts brought you to the Collision conference in Las Vegas, we remembered Dave Goldberg and we talked about the future of streaming and live TV.
Welcome to our annual collection of the week's Tech podcasts, and we begin with our Roundtable, which now broadcasts live every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. And speaking of live, on this week's show, we looked at all those free live streams that showed up during the big boxing match last weekend on apps like Periscope and Meerkat. Are big live TV sports events doomed if folks are going to hold up their smartphone and beam it out for free? We also introduce you to three new on-demand apps, for dry cleaning, dog walking and messenger services, Washio, Zingy and Schlep and Fetch.
Is there a tech bubble? Our Jon Swartz, John Shinal and Laura Mandaro discuss whether the multi-year tech boom is losing air; Fitbit's IPO and what we learned from Alibaba this week.
Swartz and I attended the Collision conference in Las Vegas this week, where many young startups hoped to run into those elusive investors and strike it rich. We put a roundtable together at Collision to talk the conference, diversity in tech and the future of food. Our guests: Chet Pipkin (Belkin), Josh Tetrick (Hampton Creek) Cathryn Posey (Tech Superwomen) Daniel Saks (App Direct) and Greg Lull (Credit Karma.)
Last weekend, beloved SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg died in a tragic accident. The husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is remembered by friends and family, as reported by our Marco della Cava.
Rich DeMuro is a tech reporter for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, and hosts the syndicated "Tech Report," which goes out to 30 TV stations. We compare notes about covering tech, and DeMuro explains how he got his start, and choses what to cover, in this TalkingTech interview.
The Talking Tech Roundtable now airs live every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. You can listen via Paste BN's channel on Tunein.com, subscribe on iTunes or play back the archived shows on SoundCloud, and Stitcher.