Hackers gained access to the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and many others Wednesday afternoon in an apparent cryptocurrency giveaway scam. Other accounts including Barack Obama,… Read More
— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web… Read More
Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission was “censored” by Amazon. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX… Read More
Talk about going viral. Avi Schiffmann, the 17-year-old high school student from Mercer Island, Wash., just outside Seattle, started working on his coronavirus information website — ncov2019.live — in early… Read More
“Hello world,” Bill Gates said when he joined Twitter and tweeted for the first time on Jan. 19, 2010. Ten years later, the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder has had… Read More
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday his company will stop accepting political advertising on the platform. The surprise decision is an apparent swipe at Facebook, which is currently embroiled in… Read More
For all of the talk around bringing more diversity to tech, black and Hispanic employees remain vastly underrepresented at some of the world’s largest tech firms. Tech leaders from Twitter,… Read More
Climate change will take center stage in the technology industry today as thousands of employees at some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies plan to walk off the… Read More
LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign that the Microsoft-owned social network is actively fighting some of… Read More
Twitter users had to go elsewhere on the internet Thursday to find out what’s going on in the world — including with Twitter — as the social media giant suffered… Read More
Matt Slack has been on Twitter for 13 years with the handle @slack. Slack, the chat-based collaboration app, has been on Twitter for six years with the handle @SlackHQ. Last… Read More
Memes do come true. Josh Cashman’s meteoric rise from football fan to Twitter video star took another turn on Monday as the college student officially became a part of the… Read More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to keep his Twitter habit in check — and feels comfortable enough with the arrangement to… Read More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in trouble again with the Securities and Exchange Commission, this time over a 13-word tweet. The SEC filed a motion in federal court on Monday,… Read More
There’s plenty of s*it on television. Promoting it as such is generally not the norm for studios. Amazon Studios was having some fun on Twitter on Thursday and Friday —… Read More
Perhaps it was only a matter of time until the president tweeted about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years. Donald Trump is a… Read More
— Former Washington State Rep. Laura Ruderman is taking charge as CEO of the Technology Alliance, a non-profit organization of tech leaders in Washington. Ruderman represented the 45th district in the… Read More
U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it said it was ready to “drop something much, much bigger”… Read More
It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to tweet out a very real “thank you” to Apple CEO… Read More
Update: Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. PT: What does the guy making viral videos about the Seattle Seahawks’ recent success think about his own success in attracting followers and a good deal… Read More
Today’s smashingly successful touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars was a cause for celebration on Twitter. There was good-natured snark from SarcasticRover and from Matthew Inman, the Seattle cartoonist behind… Read More
The Empire State Building in New York City has been bathed in light to celebrate everything from the Fourth of July to another Yankees championship. On Tuesday the iconic landmark… Read More
There go the neighborhoods. Whether they’re going in a good or bad direction depends on how you feel about Amazon, and the tech giant’s announcement that it will plant new headquarters… Read More
Twitter is partnering with Seattle-area startup Tagboard to help video news producers highlight tweets tied to political issues and races in live broadcasts. Today the two tech companies launched Tagboard… Read More
The death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen brought with it an outpouring of reaction across social media on Monday, from the companies and institutions he created and owned to the… Read More
It’d be one thing to not recognize Batman, since the famed superhero has been played by so many different actors. But what if your smart doorbell didn’t recognize you, and… Read More
Ah, yes, it wouldn’t be fall without … wait. It’s not even Labor Day yet. Well, that doesn’t matter for lovers of the Pumpkin Spice Latte, an annual Starbucks concoction… Read More
In the five years that he has been “active” on Twitter, Warren Buffett has tweeted nine times. The billionaire Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO has 1.43 million followers, and… Read More
Today’s featured stories President Trump wakes up, Googles himself and threatens to look into search giant’s ‘rigged’ results Women and minorities make one more giant leap for AP computer science… Read More
Perhaps you’ve reached the age where heading out for live music — or heading out for live music featuring the Smashing Pumpkins — just isn’t a viable option on a… Read More