Biz Please

We talk livestreaming, the upcoming conventions and how we read the news

Esports has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, now attracting major sponsors and getting airtime on channels like ESPN.

MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut joins to talk about why email just won't seem to die despite having been around since the beginning of the Internet. We also talk about company culture, what his emaily inbox looks like and that infamous Serial intro.

Antonio Garcia Martinez joins us to talk about what life is really like in Silicon Valley. His new book, "Chaos Monkeys," chronicles the sometimes absurd world of venture capital as well as the inner workings of Facebook, while also providing a larger issues plaguing digital media and the online ad market.

It's a very special but also very sad edition of Biz Please this week. Seth Fiegerman will be heading to CNN after almost four stellar years at Mashable. We send him off with a pod touching on a variety of the week's news topics and some words from the man himself on his time at Mashable the evolution of tech reporting.

Apple is among the biggest companies in the world. But what has it done for us lately? We break down where the company is headed with help from two of the best Apple analysts in the game -- Horace Dediu and Neil Cybart. How does Apple compete going forward? Will they introduce a car? Or are they doomed to a slow decline?

It's the classic battle between overzealous American ingenuity and stodgy European conservatism. US tech companies from the big (Google) to the up-and-coming (Uber) to even smaller startups are running afoul of the governments in the EU. Are Europe's rules holding it back from enjoying the benefits of these companies and also scuttling their own tech futures? Or is this a brave stand against some of the most powerful companies in the world?

The general election looms, and that usually means candidates adapting their messages to the mainstream. Then again, there hasn't been much about this election that has been usual. Sahil Kapur, national political reporter for Bloomberg Politics, joins to talk about Trump's most recent tirade against the press, what Hillary Clinton is doing to compete with his media dominance, and the end of Barack Obama's presidency. Also, just a bit about Uber's massive funding round.

The decline of newspapers and magazines has led to widespread concerns over the future of local news. Few know this topic better than Jim Brady, whose newest startup caters to the city of Philadelphia. He joins us to talk about his work at the Washington Post and AOL, as well as what people have been getting wrong about making local news work online.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson -- three of the world's most high-profile businessmen -- have all been seduced by the future of space travel. Their respective companies (SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic) are among the leaders in private space launches. What's the future of this industry? Mashable space reporter Miriam Kramer joins us to talk about the harsh realities and wild dreams of the space business.