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Every Tuesday and Friday, tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp,

Episodes

Total: 617

Disney open doors to the NBA, NYSE rings the bell, plus former Facebook Exec on Zuckerberg's WFH move
2020/5/26

Kara and Scott talk about Disney open its doors to the NBA as professional sports leagues attempt to

Spotify’s podcast boom, Amazon checks out JCPenny, Kara loves TikTok and a prediction on Shopify
2020/5/22

Kara and Scott talk about Spotify's new deal with Joe Rogan and the implications for the podcast ind

The DOJ readies a lawsuit against Google, Amazon tries to get into designer retail again, and a Friend of Pivot on the “plandemic”
2020/5/19

Kara and Scott talk about Facebook purchasing Giphy and reports the DOJ is likely to sue Google for

Uber offers to gobble up GrubHub, Elon Musk is “Re-open America guy”, and a prediction on mergers in digital media
2020/5/15

Kara and Scott talk about Uber's offer to buy GrubHub, which would give the company a majority of fo

Amazon might acquire AMC theaters and Friend of Pivot Stephanie Ruhle on business, CARES Act, wins and fails
2020/5/12

Kara and Scott talk about Amazon in talks to acquire AMC theaters, Uber earnings and how education w

Facebook's oversight board is the "League of Nations", Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's master class on leadership, and a prediction about Uber's numbers
2020/5/8

Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's new oversight board and whether it will be effective in control

Congress weighs liability for businesses, Amazon will put its $4billion profit into its supply chain, and Anand Giridharadas on "Rich Corona; Poor Corona"
2020/5/5

Kara and Scott talk about whether or not Congress should give businesses legal protections against l

Facebook pushes e-commerce business, Uber in trouble, eyes on Amazon Media Group… and a prediction: Sonos gets acquired
2020/5/1

Kara and Scott talk about Facebook earnings during the pandemic and the company's push into e-commer

Amazon under scrutiny; Zoom security expert Alex Stamos explains it all (and talks Facebook), plus some special Wins and Fails
2020/4/28

Kara and Scott talk about Senate Democrats being vocal about breaking up Amazon, after a report that

Netflix’s Reed Hastings has a huge quarter, Facebook makes big investment in India, Bezos takes the reins at Amazon
2020/4/24

Kara and Scott talk about Netflix's biggest quarter yet. The company doubled its projections for how

Andreessen tells Silicon Valley it’s “time to build”, Facebook/Google’s ad market hit, Friend of Pivot Rebecca Traister on women’s leadership
2020/4/21

Kara and Scott talk about Marc Andreessen's manifesto to Silicon Valley. They also discuss the PPP a

World Health Organization in the crosshairs, the robot revolution, Softbank's struggling Vision Fund and a big prediction: Amazon is going to be a $2 trillion company by 2020
2020/4/17

Kara and Scott evaluate President Trump's recent business decisions from defunding the W.H.O., to hi

Google and Apple team up to track COVID-19, Uber drivers face unemployment hurdles, and Robert Reich says 30% of people may be out of work by summer
2020/4/14

Kara and Scott talk about tech giants Google and Apple teaming up to track COVID-19 cases on iPhones

Dorsey donates 28% of his wealth to COVID-19, Zoom as the poster child for tech privacy and the video-game industry as Amazon enters the production game
2020/4/10

Kara and Scott talk about Jack Dorsey's $1 billion donation to fight COVID-19, as well as other tech

Zoom isn’t as “encrypted” as you think, tech regulation amidst COVID-19, and economist Gene Sperling on being in a “jobs depression”
2020/4/7

Kara and Scott talk about privacy issues at Zoom as we move our doctor's appointments, work, therapy

Sean Hannity has a meltdown. Twitter, Facebook and Google tackle misinformation. Softbank abandons WeWork. PLUS Quibi gets a break.
2020/4/3

Kara and Scott talk about Sean Hannity defending his work at Fox News (after Kara called him out for

The Internet is buckling under COVID-19 pressure, Esther Perel on our relationships in quarantine, and the possible Fox News reckoning
2020/3/31

Kara and Scott talk about Internet slow downs and how companies are coping as the country starts liv

Zoom stock surpasses airlines; MLB, NBA, Olympics are on pause — what happens to the media that covers them? And a Listener Mail about relief package guardrails.
2020/3/27

Kara and Scott talk about Zoom's immense stock value in this moment and what the company should do w

Stimulus package stalled, how Airbnb, Tesla and Uber fare during COVID-19, and Corey Johnson (NYC Speaker) on small businesses and New York on “PAUSE"
2020/3/24

Kara and Scott talk about the stimulus package in limbo and the Defense Production Act. They break d

Addressing the US economy (a note from Andrew Yang), data privacy in a public health emergency, and a listener question on the "great WFH-experiment”
2020/3/20

Kara and Scott talk about stimulus packages and possible emergency checks to deal with the US econom