Speaking in Tech #340 - Bricked

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01/08/20 • 50 min

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Tara Kelly (@TKtechnow), CEO and Founder of Splice Software (@SPLICESoftware). The trio talk about Google's tax woes, Amazon's initiatives to help homeless people in Seattle - as well as the startup scene in that city, Sonos's controversial new trade-in process, using AI for breast cancer diagnosis, LibreOffice's first decade, how Splice Software can help customers and more! 00:00 Christmas, waxworks and Star Wars 02:24 Introducing Tara... and a bit more Star Wars 03:39 Google's Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich are off the menu 08:15 Gimme shelter, Amazon 12:47 Seattle's stupendous startups 16:45 Sonos says 'brick me' 27:11 AI is best for breast 33:40 LibreOffice chalks up ten years 36:23 Tara talks Splice Software 48:24 Next week's plans

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Speaking in Tech #339 - Must have more Disruption

In the second of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Please note this is a live event recoring and audio quality will be affected by that. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:10 Innovative apps for NASA and others with Charlie Regis (@CharlieRegis), Co-Founder, Styliff Tech (@stylifftech / https://styliff.com) 00:06:19 Wearable technology to prevent industrial injuries with Matthew Hart, Founder, Soter Analytics (@SoterAnalytics / https://www.soteranalytics.com) 00:15:57 Software development for cloud computing, mobile apps, IoT and BLE with Grzegorz Kapusta (@gkapusta), CEO and Piotr Herstowski, Business Development Lead, Polidea (@polidea / https://www.polidea.com) 00:22:33 Data labelling for AI with Lars Wulfken (@wulfskin), VP Product, Canotic (@canoticai / https://canotic.com) 00:33:01 Hyperlocal video streaming with Christian Walther, Director Product, Joyn (@JoynDeutschland / https://www.joyn.de) 00:36:51 Automated cloud security with Manuela Ticudean, Co-Founder, Cyscale (@cyscale / https://www.cyscale.com) 00:42:14 Financial wellbeing with Alexander Brouwer (@alexanderbrwr), Founder and CEO and Veronica Fresneau (@verofresneau), Head of Marketing and Communications, Vive (@Vive_App / https://www.viveapp.com) 00:49:18 Winners of Startup Battlefield announced!

Next Episode

Speaking in Tech #341 - Caught in a Web

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Jerry Vasquez of Liquid Web (@LiquidWeb). The trio talk Mac vs Windows on malware; Google removing the ToTok messaging app from its Play store; Russia banning Tutanota secure email; what's happening with enterprise SSD and HDD sales; the latest on Xerox's attempted acquisition of HP Inc; and more! 00:00 AWOL in Seattle 02:02 Jerry joins in 03:20 Mac beats Windows... on malware 07:14 ToTok gets the chop 09:45 Tutanota is no Russian doll 13:01 SSDs are sooo last quarter 16:56 Xerox gets grubby with HP Inc 22:12 Jerry talks Liquid Web 35:15 What next week brings