Pivot

With great power, comes great scrutiny. Every Tuesday and Friday, journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.


News Commentary
Tech News
Technology
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Regulators are cracking down on tech, and Frien...
52 min
502
Q2 Quarterly Review: The State of the World Acc...
53 min
503
Facebook FTC antitrust case thrown out and Amaz...
Kara and Scott talk about a Federal judge throwing out an antitrust case against Facebook by the FTC and more than 40 states.
52 min
504
Toyota's GOP contributions, BuzzFeed's SPAC and...
Kara and Scott talk about the revelations that the car company Toyota is the highest contributor to Republicans who voted to invalidate the presidential election.
52 min
505
House Judiciary Committee antitrust bills, Micr...
Kara and Scott talk about the six antitrust bills the House is contemplating this week and what it means for big tech and political divisions.
51 min
506
American Airlines cancellations, Bitcoin mining...
Kara and Scott talk about American Airlines cancelling flights because of staff shortages.
68 min
507
Amazon's worker problem, Andreessen Horowitz's ...
Kara and Scott talk about a blockbuster story exposing worker issues in Amazon warehouses as Mackenzie Scott donates money to counteract the forces of her ex-husband's company.
65 min
508
Apple vs. the Trump Administration, CEO compens...
61 min
509
Billionaires and the tax code, Facebook smartwa...
Kara and Scott talk about the ProPublica report that America's wealthiest people paid basically nothing in taxes and what the country should do about it.
52 min
510
G-7 nations' historic tax reform, Bitcoin 2021,...
Kara and Scott talk about the historic tax reform deal reached by the G-7 nations that would make the minimum global corporate tax rate 15%.
53 min
511
The SEC goes after Elon Musk's tweets, Fauci's ...
Kara and Scott talk about the SEC saying that several of Elon Musk's tweets were not vetted before they were posted and violate a previous settlement with regulators.
51 min
512
Uber and Lyft price surge, the Biden infrastruc...
Kara and Scott talk about Uber and Lyft rideshare prices surging as the companies struggle to find contract drivers.
60 min
513
Russia crackdown on social media, Amazon buys M...
Kara and Scott talk about Russia increasing penalties and crackdowns on Google, Twitter, and Facebook.
48 min
514
Tim Cook takes the stand in Apple vs. Epic tria...
Kara and Scott talk about Apple CEO Tim Cook's testimony in the final days of the Apple vs. Epic antitrust case.
63 min
515
Crypto-crash, Streaming wars and tax plans with...
Kara and Scott are joined by MSNBC Host and NBC News Senior Business Correspondent Stephanie Ruhle for a lightning round about the week's news.
56 min
516
AT&T's TimeWarner/Discovery+ super merger and G...
Kara and Scott talk about AT&T spinning off their streaming service Time Warner and combining it with Discovery+ to compete with streaming content giants.
57 min
517
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and Tes...
Kara and Scott talk about the fallout from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the gas hoarding that followed.
47 min
518
Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live and the dogeco...
Kara and Scott recap Elon Musk's host appearance on Saturday Night Live and how it affected the cryptocurrency market.
49 min
519
Facebook Oversight Board and the Trump ban, tro...
Kara and Scott talk about the Facebook Oversight Board's decision to uphold Facebook's ban of Donald Trump's Facebook account... for the next six months.
49 min
520
Apple and Epic go to trial and Friend of Pivot ...
Kara and Scott talk about Apple going to trial with Epic over its choice to kick Fortnite out of the app store.
69 min
521
Trouble at Basecamp, Bezos fights for the moon,...
Kara and Scott talk about controversies at Basecamp, as the company rolled out a new ban on internal political talk.
52 min
522
CEO wealth surge, Apple/Facebook tensions heat ...
Kara and Scott talk about how CEOs in the United States wealth has surged during the pandemic as compared to their workers.
60 min
523
Apple's podcast play, Netflix's rough quarter, ...
Kara and Scott talk about Apple's big announcements in the podcast space and what that means for other competitors in the podcast market.
54 min
524
Facebook gets into audio, WeWork's SPAC, and Fr...
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's new foray into the audio space and what it means for creators.
67 min
525
The crypto-surge, Bernie Madoff's dark legacy, ...
Kara and Scott talk about the Coinbase IPO and the surge for Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other currencies.
44 min