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Hackers take over Twitter accounts of Gates, Musk, Biden, Obama, Apple and others in crypto scam

Hackers gained access to the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and many others Wednesday afternoon in… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma… Read More

Elon Musk tweets, ‘Time to break up Amazon’ as he defends author in dispute over COVID-19 book

Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission… Read More

Viral sensation: Seattle kid who built coronavirus website catches eye of a top Twitter tastemaker

Talk about going viral. Avi Schiffmann, the 17-year-old high school student from Mercer Island, Wash., just outside Seattle, started working… Read More

Mind-blowing facts and more: Bill Gates shares his 7 favorite tweets after 10 years on Twitter

“Hello world,” Bill Gates said when he joined Twitter and tweeted for the first time on Jan. 19, 2010. Ten… Read More

Twitter bans political advertising amid Facebook controversy — CEO Jack Dorsey explains why

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday his company will stop accepting political advertising on the platform. The surprise decision is… Read More

Diversity in tech: Company leaders talk ‘black tax,’ recruiting, retention, and impostor syndrome

For all of the talk around bringing more diversity to tech, black and Hispanic employees remain vastly underrepresented at some… Read More

Widespread climate walkouts expected at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech companies

Climate change will take center stage in the technology industry today as thousands of employees at some of the world’s… Read More

LinkedIn blocked 21.6M fake accounts in first half of year, as scrutiny of social media giants grows

LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign… Read More

‘Something is technically wrong’: Twitter outage extends beyond an hour

Twitter users had to go elsewhere on the internet Thursday to find out what’s going on in the world —… Read More

Meet Matt Slack: Michigan techie who is @slack on Twitter got an invite to Slack’s public debut

Matt Slack has been on Twitter for 13 years with the handle @slack. Slack, the chat-based collaboration app, has been… Read More

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson officially hires video-making college kid who became a star on Twitter

Memes do come true. Josh Cashman’s meteoric rise from football fan to Twitter video star took another turn on Monday… Read More

Elon Musk touches on his Twitter tactics after settling with SEC over Tesla tweets

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to keep his Twitter habit in… Read More

Tesla’s fortunes spin after SEC accuses CEO Elon Musk of violating a tweet deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in trouble again with the Securities and Exchange Commission, this time over a 13-word tweet.… Read More

Who watches this hit? Amazon Studios revs up its hashtag game in promoting ‘The Grand Tour’

There’s plenty of s*it on television. Promoting it as such is generally not the norm for studios. Amazon Studios was… Read More

Trump mocks Amazon’s ‘Jeff Bozo’ over divorce and tabloid exposure

Perhaps it was only a matter of time until the president tweeted about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie… Read More

Tech Moves: Tech Alliance names new CEO; Twitter lands security leader from F5; Rubica hires marketing chief; and more

— Former Washington State Rep. Laura Ruderman is taking charge as CEO of the Technology Alliance, a non-profit organization of tech… Read More

U.S. Strategic Command ‘joke’ about dropping something on New Year’s Eve bombs on Twitter

U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it… Read More

Trump thanks Apple’s Tim Cook for jobs expansion, but where’s the love for Jeff Bezos and HQ2?

It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to… Read More

Watching the Seattle Seahawks win is fun again — especially with these viral videos on Twitter

Update: Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. PT: What does the guy making viral videos about the Seattle Seahawks’ recent success think about… Read More

From The Oatmeal to the space station, Mars InSight lander’s fans are all a-Twitter

Today’s smashingly successful touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars was a cause for celebration on Twitter. There was good-natured snark… Read More

Empire State Building glows orange for Amazon and New Yorkers are seeing red on Twitter

The Empire State Building in New York City has been bathed in light to celebrate everything from the Fourth of… Read More

Far from the Seattle it changed, Amazon finds new headquarters cities — and new backlash on Day 1

There go the neighborhoods. Whether they’re going in a good or bad direction depends on how you feel about Amazon,… Read More

Twitter teams up with Tagboard to help newscasters surface political tweets

Twitter is partnering with Seattle-area startup Tagboard to help video news producers highlight tweets tied to political issues and races… Read More

‘His legacy will live on forever’: Death of Paul Allen brings reaction from the many worlds he touched

The death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen brought with it an outpouring of reaction across social media on Monday, from… Read More

Batcave on lockdown? Man’s smart doorbell locks him out of house when it thinks he’s Batman

It’d be one thing to not recognize Batman, since the famed superhero has been played by so many different actors.… Read More

We always fall for it: These states are tweeting the most about Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte

Ah, yes, it wouldn’t be fall without … wait. It’s not even Labor Day yet. Well, that doesn’t matter for… Read More

Warren Buffett talks Twitter (real and fake): ‘There’s other things in life I want to do than tweet’

In the five years that he has been “active” on Twitter, Warren Buffett has tweeted nine times. The billionaire… Read More

TLDR: Trump vs. Google, minority students in AP computer science, rare computer headed to auction

Today’s featured stories President Trump wakes up, Googles himself and threatens to look into search giant’s ‘rigged’ results Women and… Read More

Smashing Pumpkins concert in Seattle delights fans around the world thanks to Twitter live stream

Perhaps you’ve reached the age where heading out for live music — or heading out for live music featuring the… Read More