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The Dish will stop publishing on Andrew Sullivan's exit (story) Goodbye Radio Shack (story) Switzerland's big boys getting in on smart watches (story) Changes Satya Nadella has made to Microsoft (story) Dropcam churn: when management teams clash post acquisition (story) Cable viewing declines 12% in January (story) ReadWriteWeb sold to Wearable World (story) Amazon's Kindle Convert can Turn paper library into e-books (story) Getting passed around: FiOS users (story) NEST, the overpriced thermometer claims three studies that their thermometers pay for themselves in three years. (story) Michael is going to be more organized about using Evernote. David is already organized, to a degree using OneNote. Michael recommends the final season of Kroll Show. David hasn’t tried it, but would like a SF listener with an iPhone to try out the Detour app for an audio tour of San Francisco. 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

What Silicon Valley thinks of women (story) Andrew Sullivan quits blogging (story, story 2) Marshawn Lynch and the NFL One week of harassment for Anita Sarkeesian (story) Here's what harassers do when they're not attacking Anita (story) 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming (video) Anita Sarekeesian on Colbert (video) Goodbye Joystiq (story) And Sega lays off 300 (story) How to Win Any Hackathon and why they're important - Jason Calacanis for LAUNCH (story) Vine is becoming a key ingredient in sports news (story) Microsoft releases Office apps for Android. They're out of beta. (story) Outlook which is supposedly a great Gmail app (story) Tumblr cleaning up interface Free Swift programming (or 50% off) at Udemy Getting addicted to Match Game with my wife, and watched the documentary, "Behind the Blank" (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

On this week's show, Mike and David discuss the following: -Windows 10 a free upgrade and the new MSFT glasses (story) -Microsoft introduces cool product, lamely completely mistitles it for marketing purposes (story) -GoPro and Pro sports: awesome. NHL Outfitted with GoPros (story) -Virtual Reality Million Man March as news report (story) -Box goes public: My story with Aaron, the CEO (story) -The rise of the unicorns. $1 billion private startups. Google and Amazon were never worth $1 billion when they were private. 39 in 11/13, today there are 80. the median valuation of a Series A round of funding soared 135% between 2012 and 2014 (story) -MIchael Dell on being private (story) -Dreamworks in Redwood City shuts down. Going from 3 movies to 2 movies per year. (story) -Twitter's while you were away feature (story) -Four different types of audio people like to share. (story) -David recommends the Circa News App Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

TDS #69: It's Just the Tech and Media News...Nothing Else On this week's show, Mike and David discuss the following: Marco details his finances from Overcast (story) Can't purchase Google Glass anymore. Other Google failures? Google Wave. Jaiku. Video player. Google Notebook. Google Answers. (story) Amazon making moves for theaters (story) Jeff Bezos' purchase of Washington Post. How's it doing so far? (story) Plaxo cofounder arrested for murder (story) YouTube producing its own halftime show to promote its stars (story) The cognitive tax of multitasking (story) Spike Lee selling his movie on Vimeo one month before theater release (story) Space internet is a big thing suddenly (story) KeySweeper can log all keystrokes from a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard (story) HBO's Togetherness Mike learns to code with his son at Code School David recommends LEGO Movie Xbox Game, "The Memory Palace" podcast, and Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC. Our sponsor this week is Protect Your Bubble. 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

David and Michael talk about CES. What happened. What was cool and what was not. Here are some roundup articles from CES we recommend you check out. The Wirecutter Paste Magazine PCWorld TIME Cnet Entrepreneur And if you haven't started watching it already, start watching Veep on HBO. 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

TDS #67: Our Tech and Media Predictions for 2015 -David and Michael discuss their trends for the New Year. Here's what we discuss. -Cyberterrorism, hacking, whatever you call it, it will define the year -Same day delivery wars. Biggest players - Google and Amazon, but could there be a dark horse? An Uber or Lyft to take down the kings? -Amazon will need to focus (for once) – NYTimes story -Context aware systems, e.g. Google Now, will level up. -Economy will be strong unless major catastrophe (cyber, natural or otherwise) -Liquidity of all computing. Software defined networking and all other computing. Everything will be able to be moved digitally. We won't be constrained by anything physical. -Facebook as company becomes less and less about Facebook, because nobody likes Facebook -Audio continues momentum, but gets crowded like ebooks -3D printing will not go mainstream, neither will smart home. People will say its a failure. But it isn't. -Drone will be overhyped. Will be movement for regulation. -Agile social marketing. Just in time marketing. -Betting on the phenomenon of viral is officially ending.Content marketing must also include paying for distribution. -Reply All podcast -BoJack Horseman (Wikipedia) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 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

Mike and David hash out the week's tech and media news. Our sponsor this week is Protect Your Bubble (www.protectyourbubble.com/teardown). Here's what we discuss: -Serial ends and Mailkimp (sic) is the advertising winner (story) -Sony hack is the story of the year. U.S. seeks China's help to block N. Korea from more cyberattacks (story) -Journalists need to understand the business and the product. (story) -Journalists working w/product/devs (story) -Goodbye Colbert Report (story) -Instagram worth $35 billion - 27 million to 300 million (story) -How much can you make being a Lyft driver/Uber driver? (story) -Are best of lists worth doing anymore? -Why Jackie Chan's action comedy works (video) -Bots outnumber humans on the web - 56 percent of web visits are from bots. Of the bots, 20% estimated are malicious. (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.

Mike and David talk about the news. This week: -Cable is Dying! Or maybe it isn't? -Uber says what controversy, raises a billion or so -Microsoft Nook end loveless marriage -VC dollars getting all up in your inbox -David talks getting a case of the business owner Mondays -More! Plus, we have a sponsor this week. Check out www.protectyourbubble.com/teardown Listen to more Tear Down at www.teardownshow.com

We discuss the evolution of tech and energy economics with Adam Lesser (@adamdlesser), cleantech curator at GigaOM and lead researcher at Blueshift Research. At the beginning of the show, Michael and David discuss the following: -Michael's take on Re/Code zapping all their comments (story) -Uber hysteria. How we're so reactive to bad behavior. (story) -Magic Leap - $500 million in VC worlds to turn us into WallE people (story) -Aereo files chapter 11. That was inevitable, wasn't it? (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 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

Phil Kaplan, aka Pud, is the founder of "F'ed Company" and many other businesses such as AdBrite, the social media commerce follow tool Blippy. Most recently he launched the musician-only social network Fandalism which gave rise to Distrokid, a low-cost tool to submit your music to all the digital music hosting sites. At the beginning of the show, Michael and David discuss the following: iPads in seats in terminal (story) Amazon Echo, the device that answers all the questions you never planned on asking. (Michael's story on Forbes) Bill Simmons is trying to get fired, and ESPN coworkers are helping him (story) 25% of people would undergo surgery to have their brains connected to the Internet (story) Man arrested for $4.5 million Ponzi Scheme. SEC (story) Once Upon a Time: Disney is Brilliant (watch the show) Serial: Podcasts about the podcast (guide to Serial podcast) If you're new to gaming, don't get Titanfall. David's $43 mistake which should have only been a $25 mistake. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Mike and David discuss the latest tech and media news. -Is Space Tourism Dead? (story) -Microsoft Band. Health tracker. (story) -$12 annual band from Pivotal Living (story) -The Rise, Fall, Rise of Virtual Reality (story) -Gawker's snarky take on surviving media brands. What's our take? What media brand would you start now? (story) -Rafat Ali's commentary on the state of the media (story) -The launch of Ellentube. A space for safe videos. (story) -College course through the History Channel. (story) -Are webinars still cool or a thing of the past? -Inside NYTimes video strategy (story) -Virgin America's Nearly 6 Hour Warholesque Video (story) -Walking Dead -Watch 23 Free Hitchcock movies (story) -How to rip YouTube videos. -Use TruPwr to extend battery life on your iOS device while watching videos. DISCLOSURE: TruPwr is a client of Spark Media Solutions. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 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

Carlos Rodela (www.twitter.com/onawa), Video Producer for Big Fish Games, joins us for a discussion about GamerGate and demands from the gaming world. Watch Carlos' videos at the Big Fish Games YouTube channel. For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: Deezer buys Stitcher (story) GamerGate, GamerGate, GamerGate (story 1, story 2) Amazon's Fire phone a heaping pile of burning trash (story) Quora Q&A optioned as potential TV series (story) Videogame Break (GamerGate discussion) (podcast) Open Broadcaster Software Xsplit Our Five Favorite Trade Show Gimmicks Drivingfast.net Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Last week we talked about marketing for startups. This week we discuss PR for startups with Murray Newlands (www.twitter.com/MurrayNewlands), co-author of "How to Get PR for Your Startup" which will be available in just two weeks. Murray is also a writer for Entrepreneur and Inc, plus he's an instructor at the Academy of Art University on Entrepreneurship. For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: -The hardware crowdfunding revolution continues to crash (story) -HBO is FINALLY going to offer A LA CARTE. But not until next year. (story) -Cable bundling unraveling. CBS also offering à la carte (story) -Podcasts in tweets. Works with Soundcloud. Not locked to a tweet as you listen. Called AudioCards. (story) -Twitpic shutting down on 10/25 (story) -Hardcore History podcast -Sparkletack podcast for San Francisco history -Bowery Boys podcast -Serial podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

We talk marketing tactics for startups with guest Bob Knorpp (@BobKnorpp), host of The Beancast Marketing Podcast, strategic consultant at Cool Beans Group, and adjunct professor at NYU. For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: Bill Simmons and ESPN - would he be able to spin off (story) Legality of Cloud DVR. Comcast rolling out regardless. Like Slingbox. (story) Ello: will is make it? (site) London phone booths being turned into mobile phone charging stations (story) Google gives SF free WiFi in public places - Wasn't municipal WiFi a big thing a while ago? What happened? - 32 locations for a cost of $608K (story) Passenger Shaming on Facebook - My experience on a plane (Facebook site) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 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.

Guest: Ian McCarthy (www.twitter.com/ianmccarthy), Co-Founder of BrightSky Labs, creator of the 10 mobile app for sharing highlights from GoPro videos. Great conversation about trying to take advantage of this new platform. You can find Brightsky Lab's new 10 app at: http://www.get10app.com/ For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: -The Oatmeal and the power of Internet celebrity w/crowdfunding. (story) Amtrak writer residency begins (story) -Amazon keeps trying w/original series (story) -Andreesen Tweetstorm (story) -Kevin Mitnick selling zero day exploits for $100K (story) -Bittorrent adding a pay gate for its bundles (story) -Good article on Fast Company on the podcast network evolution (story) -TV networks offering more on demand programming to avoid ad skipping (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 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.