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Social media activists pressure Twitter to drop Alex Jones by blocking Fortune 500 companies

Earlier this year Jeff Reifman — a veteran of the Seattle tech industry — contacted Grab Your Wallet co-founder Shannon Coulter… Read More

TLDR: Apple becomes a $1 trillion company, Starbucks & Alibaba launch delivery service, George Takei joins TraceMe

Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate… Read More

TLDR: Self-flying planes, Cat celeb Lil Bub lends poop to biotech startup, Facebook tool that tracks your time in the app

Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends… Read More

TLDR: Video game addiction, Ofo on naked bike riding, Echo Look review & unboxing

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

TLDR: Net neutrality ends, gender discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft, former Amazonian starts YouTube channel with daughter

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

TLDR: Judge rules Trump can’t block critics on Twitter, backyard cottages & urban housing crisis, Russell Wilson’s new show on TraceMe

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Judge rules President Trump can’t block his critics on Twitter and calls the action unconstitutional

Blocking people you don’t agree with on Twitter may be a good way to silence them in your social sphere,… Read More

TLDR: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to police, Paul Allen’s $1M donation to gun safety initiative, GlimpseCam

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Instagram adds ‘mute’ function to hide certain posts from your feed without unfollowing a ‘friend’

The complicated dynamics of social media friendships has a welcome new wrinkle over on Instagram if you’re one of those… Read More

How I got caught up in a Presidential barring of ‘media,’ but not the media that now matters

As the arm reached across to block my entry, I looked up, surprised. “I have a conference badge,” I recall… Read More

TLDR: Instagram in-app payments, testing out Prime Wardrobe, Paul Allen’s immersive reality project

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

TLDR: Snap Spectacles are back, Seattle-to-Vancouver ‘nerd bird,’ Nintendo Switch

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

TLDR: Zuckerberg testifies before Congress, ?Seattle wants to regulate Uber and Lyft, Microsoft’s new smart mat

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

TLDR: Twitter suspends 1.2M accounts, Amazon Spheres open to the public, tips for using VR

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Congressional Democrats not impressed by Facebook and Twitter answers about whether Russians helped spread #ReleaseTheMemo

In a letter sent Wednesday, Congressional Democrats scolded the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter for failing to adequately investigate whether… Read More