Google Buys Fitbit, and Twitter Bans Political Ads

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TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss Google’s announcement that it’s buying Fitbit and what this tells us about the future of wearable computing. Later in the show, they discuss how Twitter and Facebook are handling political advertising.

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0:27.7	HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here with
0:47.2	Felix and me here hey guys hey Felix hey young me so this was one of those weeks where we got a lot of mail about British
0:56.0	baking. You poked the great British Bake-Off beast and you know you had no idea
1:00.8	what you were awakening. Apparently there's more than one.
1:03.7	Oh yeah.
1:04.7	There's the British Bake-Off and there's British grape baking.
1:08.3	There are many shows.
1:09.5	It is one of the best reality TV show genres there is because it is not so competitive the
1:15.4	contestants love each other it feels good you get to learn something they have these
1:20.4	wonderful characters like Paul and Mary.
1:22.6	The thing that confuses me is, are the Brits famous for their baking?
1:27.1	What?
1:28.1	Oh my God, Victoria's sponge cake?
1:30.1	Spectac? I think it's about the potential for improvement right that makes it so excited. Oh my God okay
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