Is Tesla in trouble?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On Tech Tent this week, tech journalist Charles Arthur on the troubles at Tesla. The boss of Tinder tells our reporter Shiona McCallum how she wants to make the dating platform safer. The creator of an app to help children with type diabetes on his troubles with the Google playstore. And Robert Metcalfe, associate professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, on the powerful way fake reviews warp our online shopping habits.
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| 0:41.1 | Welcome. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Welcome to TechTent with me, Zoe Kleinman, the BBC's technology editor. What a week it's |
| 0:46.0 | been for tech news. We're going to need a bigger tent. But for today, we've packed our virtual |
| 0:51.0 | canvas with a smorgasbord of the stories that we know you'll want to talk about. |
| 0:55.5 | Coming up, we've got Tesla, Tinder, and the story of a groundbreaking app for helping children |
| 1:00.2 | manage type 1 diabetes, which has accidentally fallen foul of Google's rules. |
| 1:05.7 | And as Amazon launches its latest crackdown on fake reviews, new research shows just how powerful they are |
| 1:11.9 | in persuading us to buy products online, even if they don't ring true. |
| 1:18.8 | Let's start with Tesla. The electric car giant, headed by some dude you might have heard of, |
| 1:23.5 | by the name of Elon Musk, has admitted to challenging times. I rank Charles Arthur, |
| 1:28.3 | tech journalist and former tech editor of The Guardian, to chew it all over. I'm not sure that |
| 1:33.2 | it's in trouble in an immediate sense. The news overnight was that actually its earnings |
| 1:41.7 | seem to show that it's staying up quite well. |
| 1:45.6 | It's profitable and it's still making lots of cars, |
| 1:49.8 | but it does have problems with its factory in Shanghai, |
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