Reading the Trump tea leaves for the tech industry is kind of tricky.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

We've got a new president-elect, who's also a former president, and a fixture of the political scene for the last decade.

But predicting what Donald Trump might have in mind for the tech industry based on that history, well, it's a tough bet.

But we're going all in for today's Marketplace

Techbytes week in review. Donald Trump has at times had strong words for some Tech Titans,

cozied up to others, pushed for and then against the banning of TikTok, and recently expressed

skepticism about the potential breakup of Google in an antitrust

case that ruled its search business a monopoly. Here to discuss the future of tech policy in the

second Trump term is Pereshtaveh, a senior writer at Wired. We know he often says one thing and

does another, and he also changes his minds on many things.

So I guess I'm not sold that he's definitely not going to move forward with trying to push for a breakup of Google.

We'll get an indication, perhaps later this month, when the Department of Justice is expected to lay out exactly what remedy

it seeks against Google now that it won the case in court. But we could also get an indication

if that filing deadline, if the DOJ asked for an extension into next year after January 20th when

President Trump takes office, that could be an indication that they're

going to defer to what he wants. But we have to remember here that these cases against Google,

against meta, against Amazon, they all began back in the Trump administration in many ways.

He was the one who really kicked off this aggressive enforcement against big tech companies that President Biden only

continued. That's important to bear in mind. And one of the big question marks, I think, is the future

of Federal Trade Commission chair, Lena Kahn, who has been probably in the Biden administration,

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