07/31/14
Marketplace Tech for Thursday, July 31, 2014
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Episode Description
First up, Leoneda Inge reports on Sony's earnings. Plus, Katie Notopoulos of Buzzfeed talks about her push to unfollow men on Twitter. Also, today's ambulance is based off a design from the 1970's and in dire need of a redesign. A fully outfitted ambulance can cost up to $160k. Budgets are tight, whether ambulances are provided by local municipalities or private companies. So updating the fleet could be really costly and slow.
How to make ambulances safer
EMS workers have a high on-the-job fatality rate. Could safer ambulances help?
On Twitter, addition by gender subtraction
What one Twitter user gained when she unfollowed men on the social network.