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Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Microsoft rejects Slack acquisition idea (story) Ashley Madison Fallout (story) Meerkat pivots. This isn't going to end well (story) New Yorker using snapchat (story) Amazon adds Dot and Tap (story) Spotify's Fresh Finds (story) Intuit Sells Quicken. This makes me sad. (story) Student forwards nude photos of teacher from her phone (story) Calacanis gets reality show. Can he finally make VCTV work? (story) The Internet is Rigged (story) Virtual Reality on Rollercoasters (story) k-poparazzi - Radiolab Great Trailer: It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road Horrible Trailer: New Ghostbusters Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what David and Michael talk about during the show: Google's Neural network image search is scary (story) Apple-FBI iPhone hack isn't about privacy-security (story) Google docs let you voice type - and edit, format – now (story) Kevin Roose invited two hackers to hack him (story) What's your reaction to Facebook reactions? (story) Zuckerberg dealing with a form of racism at Facebook (story) Amidst VR mania, Google apparently has Project Tango (story) Computer Science Is Now A High School Graduation Requirement In Chicago’s Public School District (story) 4G for drones (story) Amazon pays $15 million for Woody Allen's film unseen (story) Netflix changing the model of TV (story) Len Peralta's Poster (story) Smithsonian photo contest (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: The great iPhone hack debate. Can tech companies just defy court orders? This will be a landmark case. (story) Trump wants boycott, McAfee wants to hack iPhone (story) A unified IoT standard (story) The launch of Cheddar - a Millennial focused finance streaming show. (story) Cofounder of YouTube starting video network about food (story) Men make more money on ebay than women (story) Yahoo Originals shut down (story) The secret lives of Tumblr teens (story) Star Wars Fan Films (story) Vinyl Togetherness - Duplass Brothers Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Photo Credit: Kendra Pierroz - http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2016-01-14/lifestyle/rotten-to-the-core-donald-trump/

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Apple's Creating a Dr. Dre scripted series (story) Zenefits created a backdoor program to bypass the required 52 hour course to get a license to sell health insurance (story) The Fitness app rollup is about done (story1) (story2) Sony hackers still alive and well. Are they from N. Korea? Evidence shows common tools, techniques and procedures or TTPs (story) Twitter puts recommended tweets on top of timeline (story) Independent newspapers closing and going digital (story) Andy Rubin unleashing AI: good piece in Wired (story) NOOOO. Experiments with vertical video (story) NBC launchd a pay reality TV streaming service. Really. (story) James Woods gets the green light to go after the twitter defamer in court (story) Mad Dogs on Amazon Wild (screenplay) Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Creative Commons photo attribution to Bernard Goldbach.

Here’s what Michael and David discuss in this episode: Man spends $21k on Super Bowl tickets, does interview and says to keep a secret from his wife (story) Hashtags used in 45% of Super Bowl ads. (story) uber, Dominos Pizza, and Spotify via Echo (story) Amazon plans to open 400 brick and mortar bookstores (story) Technologies to watch in 2016 (story) About time: Instagram announces account switching (story) Google Hangouts Confirms it will use P2P connections to improve call quality and speed (story) New York Times launched Latin America edition (story) The New York Times’ new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers’ questions straight to the newsroom (story) Verizon exploring buy of Yahoo (story) Bustle and the Industrialization of Confession (story) Hail Caesar! Funny Tweeter Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Special guest for this episode is Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk), Founder of Little Bird. Here’s what Michael, David, and Marshall discuss in this episode: Amazon investing in podcasts (story) Future is conversational commerce (story) Is creative arts the future to success in age of automation? (story) Twitter CMO You Share. I “Like.” Is That the Extent of Our Friendship? (story) The VR and AI Rollups by Apple, Google and Amazon (story) Remote work is not about productivity (story) What My Wife and I Lost and Gained Running a Business Together (story) Is Martin Shkreli punking us? (story) HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage (story) What's cool/not cool with teens - Apps (story) Little Bird, the influencer discovery and relationship tool, just had a big update. Subscribe at GetLittleBird.com Bob's Burgers Latest Season of Project Greenlight The Future of the Future - Bonnie Graham - podcast - SAP sponsored "Overweight Sensation" and rediscovering Allan Sherman on Spotify Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Samsung and VR in Restaurants (story) Facebook Sports Stadium (story) We're all Hunter S. Thompson Now: F Bombs on Medium - Just look at top stories in Medium The recurring bad password story (story) Apple releases Music Memos, for those annoyed with Garage band (story) Tech layoffs. VC funding drops (story) About.Me Redesign (story) Violating restraining order by tagging ex in-law on Facebook (story) Baskets with Zach G Master of None Boston Accent Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Creative Commons photo attribution to He who would be lost.

TDS #109: Michael and David Penalized in League of Legends for Unnecessary Roughness Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: CES: smart home, smart food, and IoT everywhere. Some cool drones too ESPN covering e-sports (story) PewDiePie Launches on Content Network with Disney, Revelmode (story) Nest outage (story) Udacity offers guaranteed jobs or your money back for four specific courses (story) Crowley and Foursquare (story) Social media isn't the biggest distraction at work (story) Intel invests in robotics company (story) Vidmob - at CES - Like Magisto, but with real editors, for a small cost (about $55-$65) Serial going bi-weekly (story) Blue apron review Bob and Dave shows on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Michael and David look back and the biggest stories of 2015: Ashley Madison – The story that kept giving and giving. Amazon's IoT Strategy Year of the drone personal/commercial - Fireworks video. The Car Hack - Jeep Cherokee AI comes into its own: Alexa, Siri, acquisition binges, Innit Google's Reorg: Confusing but important Year that Internet programming hit mainstream. Unbelievably great programming on Netflix. Podcast industry maturity: related trend: Midroll acquired, Gimlet gest more money. The struggles of independent tech media (Gigaom, ReCode gets bought, ReadWrite, Pando) Rise of Uber and Lyft and death of taxi. Windows 10 - A free OS, and a hassle free upgrade. Terms we didn't use until 2015: Unicorn, Selfie Stick, and the poop emoticon. Awareness of online harassment of women in gaming. Anita Sarkeesian. Lack of diversity in Silicon Valley and being aggressive to change that. Ellen Pao and Kleiner Perkins. Late night changed and stop being so pointlessly vicious. Rise of investigative comedy (Daily Show and John Oliver) Death of Radio Shack. How can any retail brick and mortar tech outlet survive? Michael and David also offer up their favorite books, movies, TV shows and podcasts for 2015. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Creative Commons photo courtesy of Ognian Mladenov.

Tear Down Show #107. David and Michael Summon the Internet's Reaction via Facebook Messenger Here's what Michael and David talk about on the show: Internet's loop of action and reaction – For every news story we get additional stories of the reactions. (story) Cult of Likability - We're imprisoned by reviews (story) Obama going on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (story) 21% of Americans online almost constantly (story) Google upgrades robots and drones to Google X (story) Even Apple doesn't want to use Final Cut Pro X (story) Stern reups with Sirius for 5 years (story) WhatsApp blocked in Brazil for 48 hours for not complying to a criminal case (story) Summon an Uber from within Facebook Messenger (story) 10 Best Memes of 2016 (story) Top 10 Viral Sports Videos of 2016 (story) Serial Season 2 is back (story) Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook (story) Top 25 News Photos of 2015 (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Creative Commons photo courtesty of Ognian Mladenov.

Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Recap of the Smart Kitchen Summit Draft Kings and FanDuel sue NY Attorney General for unilateral cease and desist letter (story) Fossil buys Misfit as Watch Makers try to get smart (story) The Breakup Shop - $10 for a text or email to end your relationship (story) One of the father's of the mainframe has died (story) Beats Music shutting down - Fully Apple Music YouTube Music App now available (story) Unicorn problems: Zenefits tanks after revenue short fall (story) Pornhub's traffic dips on the day Fallout 4 comes out (story) Marissa Mayer's attempt to boost employee morale through $70K executive photo shoot (story) It's Sonos's world, and you're just living in it: Wireless speaker startups running into trouble (story) Muppets Freaks and Geeks Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Stories for the week: -SXSW dumping the gaming and harassment panel, Then the backlash from the community. Vox Media, Verge, and Buzzfeed threatened to boycott the event. -Twitch launches Twitch Creative -Microsoft dumping Sunrise. -MIT working on RF capture, which will be killer for distributed gaming -Twitter alerts me about the World Series and runs ads during the World Series -Founder of defunct company takes user credit card info w/him -Uber Surge pricing study -11 Year old sells secure passwords for $2 -Fan TV has $7k in revenue in three quarters, then Rovi still spent $12 million on them -Watch the NBA in VR

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show. YouTube ad free (story) $1 pill makes life hard for a bropreneur (story) Guy plays Fantasy Football full time (story) Venmo, the social payment service, is a little late on joke investigations (story) Google employee lives in a truck in the parking lot (story) Google hides math joke in stock repurchase (story) Silicon Valley health issues (story) Jack is giving $200 million to Twitter employees (story) Kaufman and Foxx on tour again as holograms (story) Martin Sexton Hate watching Quantico Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: No more nudes for Playboy. (story) Match Group files to go public: a love connection super IPO (story) Is texting just as addictive as gambling for teenage girls? (story) Netflix growth slows on...chip enabled credit cards? (story) Google Books wins. Not copyright infringement (story) August will let your dog walker in for you (story) Top 13 YouTube stars made $54.5 million collectively (story) Twitter layoffs (story) Yahoo Mail relaunching without passwords. Verifications to smartphone or smartwatch. (story) Amazon has patent for smart glasses (story) Michael’s podcast: Smart Kitchen Show David’s book! Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show. MIcrosoft Suface Book, HoloLens, and other hardware (story) How could Microsoft steal phone market share from Apple and Google? (story) Google truly owns the Alphabet (story) Insider trading in Fantasy Sports: DraftKings – FanDuel (story) What exactly is Medium becoming (story) Information stored on your boarding pass (story) We're past the age of smartphones as hot tech category, and VCs are looking for what's next (story) Facebook's new "like" button is out. It's Reactions. In test now. (story) Federal lawsuit of intellectual property theft to launch adtech startup Gravity4 (story) John Cook of Gawker: "What I care about is ensuring that this organization wakes up every morning with the intention of doing some fucking damage on the internet. That you continue to move faster than your competitors." (story) 5 Creative Tripod Tricks (video) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show