This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about YouTube’s $100m to support Black contributors and users; Google’s countersuit against Sonos; Facebook’s misstep on Workplace; Twitter’s takedown of accounts supporting the Chinese government; Microsoft, IBM and Amazon on facial recognition technology; Kahoot’s success; an investigation into Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy; and more!  

Seattle vs England 03:09 YouTube gets generous 08:17 Google vs Sonos: like The War of the Roses except no Danny DeVito 12:59 Facebook Workplace won’t be unionising anytime soon 16:53 How many Twitter accounts does China need anyway 20:57 Facial freedom? 25:59 Kahoot’s a unicorn 29:27 UK to Facebook: Giphy might be iffy 33:20 Conferences and customers

Speaking in Tech #348 - Bailing Out

Speaking in Tech: "Where Enterprise Tech meets Consumer Tech...". Speaking in Tech is hosted by Peter Smallbone, Josh Atwell and Melissa Gurney Greene. Topics include popular tech, data storage, cloud computing, networking, storage virtualization, server virtualization, backup, disaster recovery and anything else interesting in the tech world.

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