It has been nearly four years since Steve Ballmer left his job as Microsoft CEO, and he’s noticeably more relaxed these days. “One of the nice things about having four… Read More
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is most certainly used to getting mentioned in tweets on his own platform calling out other tweets for violations of the company’s terms of service. Whether… Read More
A young woman using social media to show off her new tattoo sounds like a story that could have been written 10 years ago. But in 2018, the tattoo is… Read More
President Trump might want to brace against the cold chill of the internet. With much of the northern and eastern United States feeling the effects of abnormally cold temperatures in… Read More
The Library of Congress is getting burned out on the massive volume of public tweets it has been archiving, and starting in the new year next week, will become more… Read More
Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Madrid, Spain, showed off their dance moves in a video that even caught the attention of CEO Jeff Bezos. And, despite the rise… Read More
Twitter is really into users having the ability to say as much as they want on the social platform these days. A little more than a month after bumping the… Read More
For all the attention that our current president gets for what he does on Twitter, the guy who preceded him in office managed to connect with more people on the… Read More
Social media’s greatest strength and weakness is the egalitarianism that defines it. Facebook and Twitter have given a voice to the voiceless, elevating causes like the Arab Spring and Black… Read More
At this point, it’s clear that foreign actors tried to impact the 2016 presidential election through social media, often using false information about candidates. But this week we saw signs… Read More
OK, let’s keep this short. That’s always been the point, right? Twitter on Tuesday announced that its limited test allowing some folks to tweet up to 280 characters (from the… Read More
The people and companies who created social media told us it would be a democratizing force that would bring the world together and help us understand our differences. Turns out,… Read More
Should tech companies be responsible for how people use their products? That’s one of the tough questions Congress is facing as it investigates Russia’s attempt to meddle with the 2016 presidential… Read More
A day after President Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated by a rogue employee on that person’s last day of work, the social media company announced that safeguards have been implemented… Read More
Fulfilling the fantasy of anyone who has ever wished they could just pull the plug on President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, a departing Twitter employee did just that on Thursday.… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today he is “dead serious” about getting to the bottom of Russian government-backed agents’ impact on the 2016 U.S. presidential election through the social platform, and… Read More
Top lawyers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google confirmed that they still don’t know how much influence Russian government-backed agents wield on their platforms during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence… Read More
We’ve come a long way since Mark Zuckerberg famously said that it was “crazy” to think fake news on Facebook influenced the 2016 election. How far? Not long ago, Facebook… Read More
In a revealing exchange during the first Congressional hearing on tech platforms and Russian election meddling, lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter dodged questions about whether they would support a… Read More
Russian government-backed agents created posts that reached about 126 million Facebook users around the Nov. 8 election, according to reports from The New York Times and Recode. For reference, there… Read More
On Wednesday, three of the biggest tech companies in the country will testify before Congress on how their products facilitated Russian meddling in the 2016 elections; the goal of the investigation is… Read More
GeekWire has quietly performed a detailed analysis of one of the most overused words in tech news. See if you can find the common thread in these headlines … TechCrunch:… Read More
Twitter disclosed this morning that it has been overstating the number of monthly active users for close to three years. But it appears Wall Street isn’t too bothered by it.… Read More
Can all Ubers come with dogs from now on, please? A woman’s tweet showing a service dog riding shotgun in the Uber she hailed has turned into a viral sensation… Read More
You know you’re in a tech bubble when new products and services attracting venture capital funding are starting to look like products and services that already exist in the world.… Read More
A one day protest aimed at calling out Twitter and bringing attention to the way women are treated on the social media platform attracted mixed responses on Friday. The #womenboycotttwitter… Read More
Rose McGowan regained access to her Twitter account on Thursday following a temporary suspension by the social media platform for violating its terms of service. The actress has been a… Read More
Plenty of companies may fear the eventual day when Amazon will come knocking. The fast food chain Carl’s Jr. is actively courting it. In a series of tweets which started… Read More
For anyone curious about the inner workings of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” is an interesting read. The Microsoft CEO is surprisingly candid and forthcoming in the book,… Read More
Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that some people on the social media site can’t get too… Read More