Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stopped by the Washington Post today and spoke about his support for addressing the threats of cybersecurity. Coincidentally, Gates today became the latest celebrity to have his credit card, social security and other information posted online as part of an ongoing celebrity doxxing fiasco. Gates’ SSN, date of birth, address and credit card… Read More…
The President may be a master of the teleprompter, but Google+ hangouts ain’t television. You can replay yesterday’s hangout with Barack Obama here, though sometimes the visual language of a video event reads louder when you freeze the frames. So here is a collage of screenshots from the Valentine’s Day Google hangout with President Obama…. Read More…
President Barack Obama will deliver his fourth State of the Union address tonight at 6 p.m PST with Apple CEO Tim Cook on hand. It will be interesting to see if Obama speaks about technology and/or entrepreneurship — if you recall last year’s speech, Obama sounded more like a venture capitalist than the president of the United… Read More…
For the second year in a row, Apple will be represented at the State of the Union. One year after Michelle Obama invited Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Steve Jobs, to sit in her box at her husband’s annual address, Apple CEO Tim Cook will join the First Lady for Tuesday’s State of… Read More…
President Barack Obama wants to make it easier for foreign-born startup founders to stay in the U.S. after launching successful companies. In a speech today discussing immigration policy, Obama said that the country needs “startup visas” for founders who raise a minimum level of financing and employ a certain number of people. Obama noted how several… Read More…
President Barack Obama’s second inauguration Monday morning provided us with another way to see Twitter’s surging popularity. There were 1.1 million Inauguration-related Tweets sent out during today’s 67-minute ceremony, according to Twitter’s government and politics team. That’s an incredible 13 times more than the 82,392 sent out four years ago during Obama’s first inauguration. The Tweets… Read More…
I tuned in to the presidential election results last night with a few friends, with a bowl of chili on the kitchen table and NPR analysis on the radio. No matter what your political persuasion, it was an impressive victory by President Barack Obama. I hadn’t really thought much about the election in terms of… Read More…
UPDATE, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: Trump ended up deleting some of his Tweets, including one about him calling for a revolution and mistakenly saying that Obama lost the popular vote. But the Trump Tweets didn’t stop by any means on Wednesday. Responding to Brian Williams’ comments on the air Tuesday night — see below for details — Trump… Read More…
Portland-based Chirpify is helping this year’s presidential candidates raise funds by allowing users to donate to either Obama or Romney’s campaigns via Twitter. The Twitter-based commerce platform will allow users to give money to either candidate via its new in-stream Twitter donation platform, launching today. Chirpify also reports that at least 25 other U.S. senators… Read More…
Ingenuity, innovation and entrepreneurship are cornerstones of the American experience, attributes that the United States should support, encourage and bankroll as the country emerges from a long and hard economic morass. That was one of the key messages delivered tonight by President Barack Obama during his state of the union address, a message highlighted by… Read More…
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