This week, The DeLorean rides again, Twitter finds itself short a few characters, Streaming shakes up Sundance, How Google paid big money to be on your iPhone, the intelligence behind Artificial Intelligence has passed ...All this and more on The Drill Down!
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Report: Google is the default iPhone search engine because it paid Apple $1 billion Have we reached peak iPhone? It’s complicated The DeLorean Motor Company may soon start building ‘new’ cars Twitter pushes out four top executives in surprise restructuring Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMOAudible Book of the Week
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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.
