Pocketnow Weekly 238: Tech, Earnings, and Advertising: This Week is All About the Money

This week is all about the money. Earnings reports from various companies have been posted. Tech products are being featured in sitcoms, and we're already getting bombarded by ads for "The Big Game"! Those stories, plus we answer YOUR viewer questions, so make sure you're charged and ready for the Pocketnow Weekly Podcast! Watch the live video broadcast from 10:00pm Pacific on February 2nd, or check out the high-quality audio version right here. For folks watching live, you can comment and ask questions by using the #PNWeekly hashtag on Twitter during the broadcast. For folks watching later, you can shoot your listener emails to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air the following week! Pocketnow Weekly 238 Recording Date February 2, 2017 Host Juan Bagnell Jules Wang   Sponsor This week’s episode of the Pocketnow Weekly Podcast is made possible by: Mara.ai Technology has changed the way we run. Thanks to Smart phones, now even casual runners can map their routes, create pump-up playlists, and track their progress. However, taking advantage of all of these technologies has always meant stopping to look at your phone, which means losing motion and momentum. That's about to change, because now there’s MARA: a hands-free running assistant that uses voice recognition and the microphone in your earbuds to help you optimize your runs. You can tell her what kind of run you'd like to do, ask questions about your speed, pace, or location, or have her play albums and playlists from your music library. MARA can also tell you how you are doing in comparison to your past runs or warn you about changes in weather, like if it's about to rain. She’ll even track your progress by noting all of your hotspots and rough legs, each time you run. You can connect MARA to Amazon Alexa-enabled devices and ask her about lifetime statistics, and records you’ve set while you get ready for your next run. Visit MARA.ai to download your free virtual running assistant today!   News 7:23 | LG Watch Sport may be pricey, so might LG G6 24:04 | Fitbit disappoints, lays off workers 28:38 | Apple meets first quarter expectations 37:40 | Razer buys Nextbit 44:34 | OnePlus and Meizu caught juicing benchmarks 52:58 | Windows 10 Cloud to fight Chromebooks 1:00:50 | Immigration ban tech impacts: free Viber calls and #DeleteUber 1:07:31 | Alexa can now place your Starbucks order   What's Wrong in Marketing This Week? (01:10:22) Sprint ad features patricide to avoid carrier costs T-Mobile ups the cringe factor with Bieber spot Huawei teams up with the "I'm a Mac" guy to promote Mate 9 and MateBook Keyboard packing Blackberry pops up on Tim Allen's 'Last Man Standing' AT&T fires back at T-Mobile's Nielsen win T-Mobile teams up with Panda Express for Chinese New Year ZTE majorly changing crowd designed and crowd funded "Hawkeye" phone