{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"Middle East tensions are putting tech supply chains under pressure","slug":"middle-east-tensions-are-putting-tech-supply-chains-under-pressure","published_at":"2026-04-30T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/middle-east-tensions-are-putting-tech-supply-chains-under-pressure","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/04/30/middle-east-tensions-put-tech-supply-chains-under-pressure","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/04/30/tech_20260430_0430_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KQD6NAMHW7XKA94XSGRXX1ZG","summary":"The war with Iran has upended supply chains including for materials that are critical to building the electronics we use everyday, such as a certain kind of thermoplastic, copper, and helium. We are now dealing with shortages of all of them. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst with the research firm IDC, to learn more.","meta_description":"The war with Iran has upended supply chains including for materials that are critical to building the electronics we use everyday, such as a certain kind…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":495,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/middle-east-tensions-are-putting-tech-supply-chains-under-pressure/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/middle-east-tensions-are-putting-tech-supply-chains-under-pressure.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}