Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 12:49PM News Roundtable with Thomas Korte and Luke Beatty-TWiST #E352
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Big news this week from Google's IO event and Yahoo with its reported bid for Tumblr. Lucky us that we had ex-Googler Thomas Korte, founder of AngelPad, and ex-Yahoo exec Luke Beatty, now managing director of TechStars, on the program. We also discussed Andrew Mason's post-Groupon plans, Blackberry Messenger for Android and iOS, the US government cracking down on Bitcoin and more.
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Thomas Korte:
http://twitter.com/thomask
http://angelpad.org
DroneDeploy: http://www.dronedeploy.com/
Google & AH investing $10.7M in drone co Airware
Boxbee: https://boxbee.com/
Winner LAUNCH Festival 2013
Luke Beatty:
http://twitter.com/luke_beatty
http://www.techstars.com/program/mentors/lbeatty/
0:31 Hey everybody we have as Thomas Korte @thomask and Luke Beatty @luke_beatty on the show today!
9:30 News Story #1 Andrew Mason reveals post Groupon plans
10:00 Jason is featured on Andrew Mason’s new album
11:00 Thomas what do you think?
11:20 Luke you have experience similar to what Andrew is doing. How do you think Andrew Mason will do?
13:45 Jason wants to have Andrew on the show
14:24 News Story #2 Blackberry messenger comes to Android and iOS
16:30 What do you guys think about Blackberry making a run?
19:20 What do you think Luke? Will they win back the enterprise?
20:30 Is Apple making a huge blunder not doing cross platform for their apps?
22:00 Luke what do you think?
22:37 News Story #3 Yahoo reportedly talking to Tumblr
22:45 Who first reported on this?
23:10 Luke you sold a company to Yahoo, what do you think?
27:07 Will Zuckerburg throw his weight in the ring? Will it make him top guy in M&A business?
28:25 What do you think Luke?
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32:22 News Story #4 Google I/O
33:51 Jason what are you most excited about?
34:10 Thomas are you worried that Google is getting too big and powerful?
36:10 Thomas weighs in on the music app, talks about audience.fm
37:40 Luke what do you think of the Google I/O, Glass, All Access?
38:30 Discussion on Google Glass
41:08 If you have a dinner party and 3 out of 5 people have Glass on, what do you do Luke?
41:55 Thomas do you ask them to take them off?
44:37 Thomas: What about GoPro?
48:19 News Story #5 Tactus Technology CTO interviewed by Scoble
50:40 What do you think of this Luke?
51:30 What do you think of this Thomas?
52:00 Discussion about potentials of this technology
55:30 What about startups developing apps for Glass, is that a waste, being too early?
56:40 Luke what do you think?
58:40 News Story #6 Department of Homeland Security shuts down bitcoin exchange with Mt. Gox
59:15 Luke what do you think?
1:00:33 Thomas do you have any Bitcoin people?
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