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Re/code on TV: Mossberg, Swisher Talk Apple Watch and a Microsoft Revival

Plus an NPR hit on India’s exploding tech scene.

Composite image by Re/code
Jason Del Rey
Jason Del Rey has been a business journalist for 15 years and has covered Amazon, Walmart, and the e-commerce industry for the last decade. He was a senior correspondent at Vox.

It was a huge week in tech with Amazon, Google and Microsoft reporting earnings, all on top of the highly anticipated release of the Apple Watch.

So Re/code’s big guns, Co-Executive Editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, took to CNBC on Friday to weigh in on all the news from Amazon’s big AWS reveal to a Microsoft revival to where the Apple Watch should go next.

Here’s the clip:

One exploding international tech market came up on many of last week’s earnings calls: India. I recently returned from a trip there and appeared on NPR’s Here and Now to discuss my seven initial observations on the nation’s tech and startup scene.

Here’s the NPR segment:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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