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Bennet Kelley speaks with the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, Jonathan Taplin . 

Taplin is the Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, and a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, as well as a film producer for Martin Scorsese. An expert in digital media entertainment, Taplin is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the California Broadband Taskforce and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's Council on Technology and Innovation.

Today on Purse Strings our host Maria Reitan is joined by Bryce Austin, the CEO of TCE Strategy and a leading voice on emerging technology and cybersecurity issues. With over 10 years of experience as a Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Bryce actively advises the boards of companies in industries as diverse as financial services, retail, healthcare, technology and manufacturing industries. He was the CIO and CISO of Wells Fargo Business Payroll Services from 2004 to 2012, and a Senior Group Manager at Target Corporation during the 2013/2014 PCI data breach.Bryce holds a CISM certification and is known as a thought leader, cybersecurity expert and internationally-recognized professional speaker. He started his technology career on a Commodore PET computer and a cassette tape drive.

Veteran publicist Justin Loeber founded mouth : digital + public relations, in 2006—boasting more than 550 clients since its inception. The agency is proud to represent personalities, companies and organizations across the spectrum—from celebrity, consumer, book, health/wellness, food, business, new media, beauty/lifestyle and fashion categories—to more than 23 New York Times bestselling authors. Loeber presents a scrappy, humorous, real-life 101, kick-in-the-pants wake-up call with his new book, Get Out of Your Own Way Guide to Life: 10 Steps to Shift Gears, Dream Big, Do it Now! (Mango Publishing), which inspires your readers to unlock their fantasy—in work, in life, in love—and realize it’s time to do it now!

The spammers are in the news again about event markup spam, and fake reviews. Ross and John also discuss issues that often arise in SEO and client relationships, along with some Mueller Files.

Today on Webcology our hosts Jim Hedger and Dave Davies go through all of your weekly headlines. Google Expands Phone Call Organic Links In Search Results. Back in March 2016, it was reported that Google was showing phone number extensions in the organic search results snippets. Well, that seems to now be expanding beyond the US and into other regions. Twitter is testing a 280 character limit, while suggesting that letting people say more will get them to tweet more. However, Twitter has every intention to roll it out to everyone if the test proves to be successful. So here’s what you need to know. The small nice-ish story Twitter had going for itself for the past few quarters was that, at the very least, its monthly active users were growing quarter-over-quarter. Also Hugh Hefner's swinging Los Angeles party pad will be forever remembered as the Playboy Mansion, where the adult entertainment mogul worked and played for more than 45 years. But the fate of the hedonistic haven following the 91-year-old Playboy founder’s death on Wednesday is now in the hands of its current owner — Hefner's next-door neighbor.

Yacht captain, local customer acquisition specialist and serial entrepreneur Tony Valentino talks to James Martell about making a simple plan making $10k by serving local business and $200-400 an hour without leaving your desk and how you can outsource to low-cost freelance professionals.

As memories of the Cold War fade, and worries about a new era of tense relations between Russia and the West emerge, the moment is ripe to revisit the decades when the United States and the Soviet Union—the world’s two “super powers”—dictated geopolitical strategy, foreign policy, and economic stability.

There were many reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russia, but one man in particular was able to conceive of a post-Communist future in which peace and prosperity might be shared with former enemies and adversaries. In Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian William Taubman combines rigorous biographical research, compelling narrative skill, and extensive access to his subject to create a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century.

Our host Peggy Anne Salz welcomes Kartick Narayan, VP Growth & Computational Marketing at Coupang, the leading e-commerce company in South Korea to discuss algorithmic marketing and other innovations that are poised to have a massive impact on how app marketers approach user acquisition and recognize truly valuable and engaged customers. Kartick a Mobile Hero as chosen by Liftoff, a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform, also chats about his experience working with Amazon and Groupon prior to joining Coupang, and why the best marketing approaches bring together product, engineering and marketing teams.

There are well over 40,000 WordPress plugins, but that doesn't mean you should use them all. Which ones work? What criteria should you use when picking a plugin? These are the questions that keep webmasters up at night. In this episode, we interview Luca Fracassi of Addendio a plugin search and demo engine where you can try plugins before you buy. Luca will be sharing his tips for picking plugins for this installment of PressThis.

Dush Ramachandran talks to Frank Cottle from the Alliance Business Centers Network about building and optimizing the virtual office. offers tips on being successful with a remote team and speak about tools to use to connect with tech. Frank is a lifelong entrepreneur from a lineage of serial entrepreneurs and his diverse experiences have helped him create man companies. His most recent focus is on the virtual business world and how technology has changed business models.