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	Podcast:		Business Matters
	Episode:		Boeing faces shareholder backlash
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:51:18
	Publish Date:		2019-04-29 20:13:00
	Description:		Boeing's boss, Dennis Mullenberg, was challenged by shareholders and journalists on the safety issue at the heart of the problem - the reliability of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS. We talk to aviation industry expert Philip Butterworth-Hayes about where the company goes from here. Meanwhile, the number of paying subscribers to Spotify has reached 100 million globally. That's double those of its nearest rival, Apple Music. Marta Pinto is an analyst with the tech research group IDC. We explore with her the dynamics of the digital streaming market. And, could space be the newest frontier for tech firms? Much of the recent innovation for the space industry has been in smaller shoe-box sized satellites known as CubeSats. These provide a standard platform for companies to fit their own cameras and sensors. Firms such as Amazon are getting in on the act, by planning whole constellations of such spacecraft. Alan Boyle is aerospace and science editor at Geekwire. Roger Hearing is joined on the programme by Peter Morici, Professor of International Business at the University of Maryland, and Enda Curran, Chief Asia Economics Correspondent at Bloomberg News Hong Kong. (Description: A Boeing plane. Picture credit: Getty Images)
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