John Moe

Host, Marketplace Tech Report

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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)

Getting rid of ugly people one baby at a time

Jun 22, 2010
The site BeautifulPeople.com is helping people have beautiful children.  It's a dating site with a new feature: a sperm bank where people can...

Preserving virtual worlds

Jun 21, 2010
Ars Technica has an interview with a University of Illinois professor who's trying to preserve a dozen video games from the last several decades....

MySpace collapses some more

Jun 18, 2010
It wasn't that long ago that MySpace defined social media. You could customize your page, make friends who weren't really your friends. Yes kids,...

Mark Zuckerberg faces the death penalty

Jun 18, 2010
No, not for his privacy policies. Pakistan's deputy attorney general is pursuing charges against the Facebook CEO because someone on Facebook...

Email going away, says person who would profit by email going away

Jun 17, 2010
Grab several grains of salt, a whole shaker even, when you hear it but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that email is going the way of the...

HuffPo buys comment moderation company. More interesting than you think.

Jun 17, 2010
It's another business story that reveals something human the more you look at it. Huffington Post, which a lot of people think may be about to be...

Chinese labor movement aided by technology

Jun 17, 2010
The New York Times has a really interesting article about factory workers and labor unrest in China. Workers are often poor, migrant workers with...

3DS and Move

Jun 16, 2010
At the E3 expo yesterday, Nintendo premiered the 3DS, a handheld 3D gaming gizmo. Like their long standing DS line but in 3D. What's noteworthy is...

TV without cable

Jun 16, 2010
On today's show we talk about how you can watch TV without having cable or satellite service. After we were done recording, our engineer Rob Byers...

New Mac Mini shows up

Jun 15, 2010
It's the beginning of pre-orders for the iPhone 4 today but another launch happened as well with very little fanfare. The new Mac Mini, an updated...