The Silicon Insider

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider, co-host Mike Malone conducts a compelling interview with Silicon Valley Pioneer, Tech Legend, and Venture Capitalist, Bill Davidow. Topics include the consequences of freeware and social media communication, the valley then versus now, and more. 

Since co-host Scott Budman is out of town this week, Mike enlists veteran South Bay Journalist Ed Clendaniel (Editor of the Editorial Page at The San Jose Mercury News) for an conversation about the state of the Silicon Valley.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott attempt to make sense of one of the strangest and scariest weeks in modern American History.

Topics for this week include: Elon Musk's gobsmacking profits and potential road to redemption, the deep ramifications of Presidents Trumps threats to the tech industry, particularly twitter, California Unemployment rates hit two-month low, HBO officially enters the streaming wars, and much more.

On this week's (one year anniversary episode!) of The Silicon Insider Podcast, hosts Mike Malone and Scott Budman discuss the latest with life under lockdown and how it's fairing for the tech industry. Topics include: a growing legion of tech companies telling employees they can work from home forever, big layoffs at IBM and Uber, contract tracing controversy, a scientific breakthrough with the development of a single atom transistor, and much more.

On the latest episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, we switch it up. Though still covering the week's biggest tech headlines, host's Mike Malone and Scott Budman stretch their legs this time and discuss at-length the state of the outbreak and the potential resulting paradigm shifts. Other topics include Uber's acquisition of Grubhub, the stunning (and damning) implications of working-from-home's productivity, and the game of chicken between a more-erratic-than-usual Elon Musk, Tesla, and Alameda County.

On the 50th Episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast (time flies), Mike and Scott discuss the latest in tech, including video game industry growth, Peleton success, Uber failure, Silicon Valley real estate stasis, and more.

On this week's episode, Mike and Scott attempt to recap a particularly wild week in Corona-stricken California and the greater tech world. Topics include: the sudden shift to driverless cars and drones for delivery work, earnings again (somehow), Musk's manic episode, more tech layoffs, NASA's selection of both SpaceX and Blue Origin to build the next lunar lander, and more.

Mike and Scott ponder the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on culture, social interaction and our collective memory as novel concepts like ‘social distancing’ transform into the status quo. Other topics include impressive tech earnings, Zoom's continual growth even after the backlash, Apple's expected release of various model 12 iPhones, Gilead's growing modesty with unpromising "Corona-cure" tests, Google halts deal to purchase large tract of Mountain View, and much more.

On this week's epsiode, Mike and Scott discuss the tech industry’s oddly normal news week as it sees stock market’s best week in nearly half a century. Meanwhile, unemployment grows and grows. The increasingly certain question remains: when will the economy crash? Other topics include: Google buys up even mores South Bay real estate, Gilead Sciences claims a corona cure is well on its way, Verizon buys San Jose-based video-conferencing firm Blue Jeans, and much more .

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, hosts Mike Malone and Scott Budman are hunkered down in their respective compounds, waiting like the rest of us for the pandemic to peter out. Today's topics include: telecommuting takes over, Zoom lives down its security scarlet letter, the market's inexplicable 27% rise, Yelp lay-offs and furloughs, the future of quarantine-oriented entertainment, and much more.

On the latest Silicon Insider Podcast, now a few weeks into the Coronavirus quarantine, Mike and Scott analyze the nation's--and tech's--response to the increasingly frightening, society disrupting pandemic. Topics include the staggering, historically high unemployment numbers, the rapid, controversial fall of last week's darling video-conferencing company Zoom, surprising tech gains for Netflix, Tesla, and Apple, conflict for Amazon on Long Island, and much more.

On this week's episode of the Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss another week of Coronavirus chaos as the virus shutters society and radically transforms the economy. Topics include record unemployment, tech companies stepping up to produce much-needed health supplies, the $2 trillion stimulus package, and more. Wash your hands!

Another week, another step towards the complete paralysis of society. Even though the entire state of California is under quarantine, The Silicon Insider Podcast is back with a new episode. This week, Mike and Scott survey the various ways tech companies are adapting to the new reality or disintegrating. Topics include biotech firms stepping up to the pandemic plate, Elon Musk's billionairesque tendency to inject himself and Telsa into any current news story, Intel's channeling of smell-o-vision for its new computer chip, the government's controversial plan to use people's location data to track the virus, and more.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott reckon with another week of increasingly concerning news about the coronavirus pandemic. What was speculation has quickly transformed into sober reality, with the virus effectively grinding the tech world, the economy, and society-at-large to a grinding halt. As such, Mike and Scott discuss the latest tech closures, cancellations, and consequences. Other less alarming topics include, Comcast's breach of hundreds of thousands unlisted phone numbers, growth of virtual meeting software company Zoom, and more.

On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss the increasing coronavirus disruptions to tech, media festivals, the stock market, and more. Other topics include increasing scrutiny over Twitter, particularly its leadership, the unveiling of TCL's bendable screen cellphones, HP's rebuff of Xerox's buyout offer, and more.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott reckon with everything from the tech fallout from the coronavirus pandemic to a potentially landmark case ruling private forums like YouTube are not protected by the First Amendment, and much more.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss space travel, coronavirus and its increasing effects on Silicon Valley, a new lawsuit against Google, and much more.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast (Valentine's Day Edition), Mike and Scott discuss the growing prosperity in tech, particularly in Silicon Valley, its paradoxical consequences, and much more.

On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss the fiasco surrounding the app used for voting in the Iowa Caucus, the tech ramifications of the Corona Virus chaos, and more.

On this week's episode Mike and Scott delve deep into the just-released earnings reports for the major tech companies. How did they figure? Guess you will just have to listen and find out!

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss the hacking of Jeff Bezos, its ties to the Saudi Royal Family--all just rife for conspiracy theory, earnings reports from Intel (surprisingly good) and Netflix (still showing growth but with the enemy looming larger and larger on the horizon), a bold claim about a new '100% autonomous' car, the ongoing battle (theatre) between Government Agencies and Apple over user's private information, and much more.

On the latest episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss the revelation that dating sites like Tinder have been selling intimate information to advertisers, the streaming wars heating up even more, the lack of tact in tech when it comes to the job application process, and much more.

On this week's episode (recorded on new fancy microphones), Mike and Scott discuss flying cars and other CES notables, now-expected Facebook follies, major Tesla success, and Airbnb's new Santa Clara home, among many other topics.

New year, same outlandish, bordering on absurd developments in Silicon Valley and greater tech. This week, Mike and Scott discuss everything from the long-overdue ousting of Travis Kalinack from UBER, Tesla's opening of a factory in China, how everyone is getting screwed out of fiber-optic internet, the possible commencement of WW3, and much, much more.

On this week's episode and the last of 2019, Mike and Scott dive into the latest in tech and the Valley. Topics include the implausibly prosperous US economy including stock market highs thanks to tech companies, Facebook revealing the (presumably record-breaking) hack of over 250 million user's data, Google's pushback against growing employee union organizing, the growing consequences of legislative attempts to curtail the gig economy, and much, much more. Have a happy holidays, we'll see you in the new year (and decade).

On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss Zuckerberg's aim of merging Instagram and Whatsapp plus possible FTC interference, the motives behind Tesla's Aztec-inspired Cybertruck, Apple's new Macbook and it's absurd $50,000 price tag, and much more.

On this week's episode, Mike and Scott discuss Google founders Sergey and Larry stepping down from Google's parent company, Alphabet, the Aramco IPO and its Saudi connections, Uber's internal classism, the sexual harassment case against Lyft, Elon Musk's increasingly absurd 'Pedo Guy Trial, the secret meeting between Trump and Zuckerberg, and much more.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott discuss the unveiling of Tesla's new Brutalist Architecture/Pontiac Aztek-inspired pick-up truck, the disastrous launch of Google's cloud gaming service, Stadia, even more alarming and potentially fraudulent chaos left in the wake of WeWork's slow death, and much, much more.