John Moe

Host, Marketplace Tech Report

SHORT BIO

John Moe is the host of Marketplace Tech Report and handles web content for the program.  Every day, he provides an insightful overview of the latest tech news using his witty and approachable style of reporting. 

Moe began working for Marketplace in May 2010, when he took over hosting Future Tense, which became Marketplace Tech Report four months later.

Before joining Marketplace, he hosted Weekend America and hosted and produced programs at KUOW, the public radio station in Seattle.  Prior to working in public radio, he was a senior editor at Amazon.com.

Moe has lived most of his life in Seattle, a perfect location to feed his long-standing fascination with technology.  Over the years he has worked on projects for Microsoft and has even wrote scripts for video games. 

Moe holds a bachelor’s degree in Dramatic Arts from Whitman College, but because he gained such a broad education at the small liberal arts college, he considers himself a degree-holder in the school of “Being Curious.”

Moe is currently based in St. Paul, Minn. and enjoys spending as much time as possible with his wife and three kids.  He is a widely published author, often focused on humor writings, and is the host of Wits™, a stage and radio series based out of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

Latest Stories (2,799)

The iPad 3G can't send text messages except yes it can.

May 3, 2010
Two criticisms I heard about the iPad were that you couldn't monkey around with it and develop your own software and that you can't send text...

If all music is going digital, what's with all these vinyl record shops?

Apr 30, 2010
We weren't ever able to connect with the owner of Vacation Vinyl for our interview today although I really do want to go there next time I'm in Los...

Chillout Song

Apr 29, 2010
Well, of course Ze Frank is one of the top people on the whole interweb. Smart, funny, humane, extraordinarily talented. So he made that song tha...

Steve Jobs has thoughts on Flash

Apr 29, 2010
I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe's Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash ...

Clearly, Future Tense has the magic touch

Apr 28, 2010
On today's show, we talked about the potential sale of Palm and indicated that no one appeared to be rushing forth with a checkbook to buy the...

Whither Palm?

Apr 27, 2010
When Palm rolled out the Palm Pre smart phone last summer, it looked like a serious challenger to the iPhone. Critics loved it, especially its Web...

Privacy hole in new Facebook?

Apr 27, 2010
On the last episode of the show we talked about the changes to Facebook that make your life on the social media site even more public. We also...