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Molly Wood

Host and senior editor

SHORT BIO

Molly Wood is the former host and senior editor of "Marketplace Tech," a daily broadcast focused on demystifying the digital economy, and former co-host of "Make Me Smart," where she and co-host Kai Ryssdal would try to make sense of big topics in business, tech and culture.

What was your first job?

Grocery store checker (but I also drove an ice cream truck once).

Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______.

Time, the most precious thing of all.

What is something that everyone should own, no matter how much it costs?

A pet!

What’s the favorite item in your workspace and why?

My electric fireplace! It is both cute and cozy.

 

Latest Stories (2,747)

What is Amazon up to with all these Kindles?

Jul 2, 2010
With a number of different versions and even options for video and audio on its smart phone app, it's difficult to determine what the Kindle is evolving into.

Hulu to start charging you money. (And that's a good thing?)

Jul 1, 2010
Hulu launches Hulu Plus, a paid option with a bigger catalog. But is this paid model really going to change our TV-watching ways?

Dell's on the decline and it just got worse

Jun 30, 2010
There are legal documents that indicate Dell employees knowingly shipped out faulty computers out to customers over the span of two years.

Obama wants more mobile spectrum available for that smart phone you insist on using

Jun 29, 2010
The government hopes that expanding wireless capabilities and taking advantage of previously unused parts of the radio spectrum could lead to more jobs.

Online life after death

Jun 28, 2010
A web service provides you the option of allowing others to know what you want to happen to your digital self after you die.

Who is this Mark Zuckerberg anyway?

Jun 25, 2010
David Kirkpatrick's new book looks more in depth into the life of the founder of Facebook.

Geolocation, the law, and you

Jun 24, 2010
Geolocation -- letting your computer or phone report where you are online -- is a big trend online right now.

Google got information it shouldn't have. Are you giving away information you shouldn't?

Jun 23, 2010
Internet users may be broadcasting data over their routers that they don't even know about.

Is e-mail going the way of the dinosaur?

Jun 22, 2010
Google and Facebook are among those who seem to believe email will become a thing of the past.

Can new batteries save Michigan?

Jun 21, 2010
Michigan's governor says she wants the state -- the site of a new plant that will make advanced batteries for electric and hybrid cars -- to be the battery capital of the nation.