Oct 21, 2020

What happened to Quibi?

Jeffrey Katzenberg demonstrates Quibi at the Sundance Film Festival in January in Park City, Utah. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Quibi

Plus: robots taking our jobs and the story of an affordable housing project in Baltimore.

Segments From this episode

Quibi is shutting down already

“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks with “Marketplace Tech” host Molly Wood about mobile-focused Quibi shutting down after just six months of operation.

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COVID-19

Are businesses automating at a faster rate thanks to COVID-19?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Oct 21, 2020

A forced digitization is taking place, as is a rethinking of how business should get done.

A bartender makes drinks at an event promoting AI in London last year.

Leon Neal/Getty Images

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COVID-19

Customers want it now, and some apps are catering to those desires

by Erika Beras

Oct 21, 2020

Customers want their stuff on the same day they buy it. Instacart can make that happen for some smaller retailers.

An Instacart shopper selects an item at a Wegmans grocery store in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in August.

Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

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COVID-19

"You work twice as hard to make half as much”

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

Oct 21, 2020

For Puerto Rico’s restaurant industry, COVID-19 is just the latest in a series of challenges.

Chef María Mercedes Grubb and her brother John Mercedes, outside their restaurant Gallo Negro in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gallo Negro's original location closed in December 2019.

Courtesy of María Mercedes Grubb

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The Block

New Baltimore development raises questions about what progress really means

by Amy Scott

Oct 21, 2020

Neighbors fear the affordable housing project will further concentrate poverty in a distressed neighborhood.

A new low-income rental development rises down the street from where Black Women Build - Baltimore is renovating houses for homeownership,

Amy Scott/Marketplace

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Satirist Tom Lehrer has put his songs into the public domain

by Justin Ho

Oct 21, 2020

Anyone's now free to record or perform the 92-year-old songwriter's parodies without owing royalties or consulting lawyers. And that's not a joke.

Tom Lehrer backstage at the Palace Theatre in London in 1959.

Evening Standard/Getty Images

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Music from the episode

Dear To Me Electric Guest

Buried In Detroit Mike Posner

Mad (feat. Lil Wayne) Solange, Lil Wayne

Antenna Bonobo

Dance Through It Twin Peaks

Gold Silver Diamond Generationals

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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