We cover the Minnesota tech stories of the week including disappointing earnings from both Target and Best Buy over the holiday period. Can they compete with Amazon and other online sources? We have a few ideas. Later we discuss the Amazon S3 outage, Uber’s use of tech to evade law enforcement and Google’s rapid rise in the education market at the expense of Apple.
Hosts: Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week)
Music: Ring of Fire by Window Shop for Love under a CC by 4.0 License
The Podcast
Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
Product Recalls, Shortages Hurt Best Buy During The Holiday Period
Best Buy grew web sales faster than Amazon and Wal-Mart last year
Target Unveils $7B Makeover Plan After Weak Q4
Fledgling Minneapolis tech VC stops making investments
Macchina: The Ultimate Tool for Taking Control of Your Car!
Code 42 moves to 100 Washington
Other Top Tech Stories
Amazon AWS goes down; the internet freaks out:
AWS is investigating S3 issues, affecting Quora, Slack, Trello (updated)
Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes
How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
Nokia is back from the dead with a trio of pure Android phones
Google Assistant, its AI-based personal helper, rolls out to Nougat and Marshmallow handsets
YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, wants to sell you TV for $35 a month
IDC: Wearables grew 16.9% in Q4 2016, Fitbit still first but Xiaomi is gaining
Gang Mentality: Can Apple compete with Google’s rise in the education market?
Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms
Cool Thing of the Week
Phil: How to breach a classified network not connected to the internet.
Tim: Raspberry Pi Zero W
Julio: New Apple Watch Stand Looks Like the 128K Mac
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