This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the news as well as the structure of Microsoft's recent virtual Build developer conference, as well as the trend of tech companies offering their employees the ability to work from home for as long as they would like.

Ben Bajarin chats with Jeff Richards, a General Partner at GGV Capital, on lessons learned from past recessions, advice for businesses and investing during trying times, and what trends may stick post COVID-19

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the IBM Think conference as well as a number of different PC, OS and chip announcements from major vendors in the PC business and analyzing what it means for the state of the PC category moving forward.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell analyzing this week's big tech quarterly earnings reports from Facebook, Google's parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, with a focus on what the numbers mean for each of the companies individually and for the tech industry as a whole.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell analyzing the earnings announcements from Intel and what they say about tech industry evolution, discussing the layoffs and repivoting of Magic Leap and what it says about the future of Augmented Reality, describing the importance of the new WiFi6E 6GHz extensions to WiFi, and chatting about the potential for an Arm processor-based future Mac.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the surprising announcement from Apple and Google to work together on creating a smartphone-based system for tracking those who have been exposed to people with COVID-19, and discussing the launch of several new moderately priced smartphones and what they mean to the overall smartphone market.

This is an extra Techpinions podcast featuring Carolina Milanesi, Bob O'Donnell and special guest Darcy Ortiz from Intel talking about the critical role of contingency efforts, business continuity plans and how companies can best handle a pandemic from a company that's in the rare position of having a pandemic planning team for over fifteen years.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin, Mario Morales and Bob O'Donnell discussing the state of the global semiconductor market and how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting major chip and end device companies and the tech industry overall.

Here's a link to the IDC Semiconductor market forecast that Mario discussed on the podcast: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US46155720

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi, Mark Lowenstein and Bob O'Donnell discussing the release of Microsoft's new Microsoft 365 subscription service, analyzing the impact of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger on the US telecom market and the rollout of 5G, and chatting about overall broadband and mobile network reliability during the COVID19 crisis.

Ben Bajarin and Carolina Milanesi are joined by special guest Dr. Mitchell Solerno who is head of school at Monta Vista Christian School. 

They discuss the school's rapid transition to distance learning, the role technology played, and challenges and opportunities learned from distance learning.