NBC's streaming service launches without Roku or Amazon Fire TV, Apple wins a tax battle, and a prediction on Netflix earnings

Pivot

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News, News Commentary, Tech News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about the launch of NBC's new streaming service and why it isn't on major streaming devices. They also discuss Apple's big tax battle win in the European Union and what it may mean for upcoming antitrust hearings in the United States. In Listener Mail, Kara and Scott answer a question about what technology is having a positive impact on our psychology. In predictions, Kara foresees some new media collaborations and Scott thinks Netflix is going to have major earnings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:06.6	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.6	And I'm Scott Galway.
0:09.0	How are you Cara?
0:10.0	Good.
0:11.0	Guess what?
0:12.0	Walmart is announcing a little require of US customers where face masks go, Doug McMillan.
0:16.8	I think this is a good thing because Walmart often leads the way in these kinds of things
0:20.5	as do many businesses.
0:21.8	What do you think?
0:22.8	Yeah, it fills us if, I mean, there's a vacuum of leadership here that's pretty dramatic
0:28.5	and a lot of, whether it's Starbucks or Walmart or Best Buy, trying to set protocols that
0:36.8	in many ways, in many ways, any action from Walmart impacts more and more directly than
0:42.5	anything the federal government does.
0:43.9	Yeah, we did it on guns, if you remember.
0:46.2	Remember?
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:48.2	With the shootings, they have a lot of impact in a lot of ways.
0:49.8	They did it in certain areas.
0:51.3	And so I think it's really important.
0:52.5	I think Walmart has a real opportunity.
0:54.3	I mean, they have their obviously, their labor issues and everything else, so that it
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