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Nov 2019
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Google Buys Fitbit, and Twitter Bans Pol...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss Google’s announcement that it’s buying Fitbit and what this tells us about the future of wearable computing. Later in the show, they discuss how Twitter and Facebook are handling political advertising.

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