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How tech is transforming the way the world works, learns and plays

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Ello World!

03/10/2014

Ello World!

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Ello World!

Ello, a social network creating a buzz, and Travis Kalanick on why Uber is misunderstood

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick on why he thinks his company is misunderstood. And one of the creators of the new social network Ello. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

Uber: The US startup that taxi companies around the world love to hate. Co-founder Travis Kalanick talks to us on why he thinks his ride-sharing company is misunderstood, and how he will continue the firm's aggressive expansion into new countries and areas of business.

Also, why has Microsoft chosen such a low-key unveiling for its new version of Windows? 

And we speak to Todd Berger, one of the creators of the new social network Ello which has created a buzz this week. Plus, Star Trek's Captain Kirk, aka William Shatner, tells us which technologies from the show he'd like to see coming our way soon.

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Leo Kelion and Dave Lee from the BBC online technology desk, and special guest, the technology journalist Kate Bevan.

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