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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: Breakup Songs

14/11/2014

Breakup Songs

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Breakup Songs

Mark Williamson of Spotify on losing singer Taylor Swift from the service

Spotify on losing singer Taylor Swift from their service and the profound impact of the mobile internet on business in Africa. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

Mark Williamson of Spotify talks to us about losing Taylor Swift from the service. How the mobile internet is having a profound effect on doing business in Africa. Celia Hatton reports from Beijing on China's 'Singles' Day' online shopping extravaganza. And Mike McCue,the founder of Flipboard on the future for the publishing and newspaper businesses.

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Ismail Ahmed of WorldRemit, and Zoe Kleinman and Joe Miller from the BBC Online technology desk.

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