The Premise

Parmy Olson is joined by Forbes gadget contributor Ewan Spence to cover a pressing topic - what gadgets to buy friends and loved ones this holiday season. They cover a number of different gift ideas and stress the importance making sure any electronics gift you give to kids comes complete with fully-charged batteries.

Is social media the reason Donald Trump won the presidency? Parmy and Alex regroup after the election to asses what happened and what the fallout will be like in the tech industry. They bring on Forbes tech contributors Kathleen Chaykowski and Matt Drange to discuss fake news stories that have been circulating on Facebook and if Trump will actually go after media companies he accuses of libel. Parmy and Alex also interview Ted Livingston, CEO and Founder of Kik Messenger, and Diogo Monica, Security Lead at Docker, about their response to the election and the moral responsibility of social media companies.

Why do so few people know how to code today and how do they get away with it? Alex chats with Allison Mnookin, CEO of Quickbase, a cloud-based app development company, about building apps without knowing any coding knowledge. Parmy and Alex also talk to Forbes writer and bestselling author, George Anders, about how most of the work at tech companies... is not actually technical.

Parmy and Alex tackle workplace collaboration software... and farming. Parmy interviews Hilmar, CA dairy farmer Aaron Wickstrom about how he incorporates Slack (a popular cloud based team collaboration tool) and robotics into how he and his crew run the farm. Parmy and Alex discuss whether or not Slack is more of a useful tool or a growing distraction in the workplace.

Parmy and Alex get political: Parmy talks about the role of Russian espionage in the Democratic National Committee hack this summer with Crowdstrike Co-Founder Dmitri Alperovitch and Alex has a lively chat with Elon James White, Founder and CEO of This Week in Blackness (TWiB!) Media, about the constantly expanding role of social media in presidential campaigns.

Parmy and Alex catch up and recap the big tech new from Summer 2016 including Samsung's recall debacle, the audacity of Elon Musk, Apple continuing to set trends in the tech industry, the emergence of the Google Pixel and what the Nintendo Switch is really competing against.

For our last episode of season one, a roundtable of Forbes reporters discuss the tech stories to watch for this Fall, from Apple to self-driving cars.

People are using Trello to plan everything from their weddings to their sales strategies. But what happens when the market is overrun with productivity apps, including some that are just too addictive?

At the Forbes AgTech Summit, Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard sits down with Dr. Robert T. Fraley, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto, about what the future holds for farming technology.

In 2015, Instagram earned an estimated $630 million in revenue. In 2016, it's on track to earn $1.5 billion. In this episode, we examine how Instagram made itself a prestige brand for advertisers and why its acquisition by Facebook is a model that other tech companies should pay attention to.