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TLDR: Alexa-Cortana integrations now available, thousands block Fortune 500 companies on Twitter, T-Mobile wants to fix customer service

Today’s featured stories Microsoft and Amazon begin public rollout of first Alexa-Cortana integrations, promise more to come Cortana meets Alexa,… Read More

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

Mike Davidson, former VP of design at Twitter and founder of Newsvine, takes new role at InVision

After four years as the VP of design at Twitter — and two years on his couch — Mike Davidson is… Read More

Twitter reports drop in active users as it purges fake accounts — spooking investors despite strong financials

Twitter reported record profits and exceeded expectations for revenue in the second quarter, but a drop in user count due… Read More

TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle

Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on… Read More

Trump targets Twitter, his favorite communication platform, following reports of ‘shadow banning’ Republicans

President Donald Trump weighed in on reports that Twitter has been “shadow banning” prominent conservative figures, criticizing his preferred communication… Read More

187,000 tweets later, New York Times reporter explains why she’s pulling back from ‘toxic’ Twitter

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has had enough of the “anger video game.” That’s how she describes what it’s… Read More

Social sales-leads startup Socedo closing amid Twitter changes; engineering team joins Azuqua

Seattle-based social media sales intelligence firm Socedo is shutting down next month, and its four-person engineering team will join Azuqua,… Read More

‘The Tip’ is history in Seattle as Richard Sherman works to unblock 49ers fans on Twitter

In Seattle, we loved Richard Sherman for “The Tip.” In San Francisco, they’ll come to love him for the unblock.… 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

Twitter moves its part of its massive Hadoop data platform to Google Cloud

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing… Read More

Steve Ballmer sells his Twitter stake, keeps his Microsoft shares, says he’s still bullish on both

Steve Ballmer has sold all of his shares in Twitter — but not because he doesn’t believe in the future… Read More

What’s with Jeff Bezos’ bubbly new social media persona?

For years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been on a dogged mission to dominate everything from e-commerce to space travel,… Read More

TLDR: Trump’s war on Amazon continues, Seattle’s restaurant robot, AI-powered horse monitoring, Seattle’s restaurant robot

[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

Bots are responsible for two-thirds of links shared on Twitter, Pew Research finds

The majority of links on Twitter are shared by bots, a term for accounts that use automation in place of… 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

Twitter suspends 1.2 million accounts for posting terrorist content

Twitter took down more than 1.2 million accounts for tweeting terrorism-related content between 2015-2017, the company announced in its biannual transparency… Read More

#WakandaForever! Record-breaking ‘Black Panther’ is also the most-tweeted about film of all time

The superhero mega-hit “Black Panther” isn’t just leaving its mark on the box office record books. The film is hashtagging… Read More

FEC asks CEOs of Facebook, Alphabet, and Twitter to testify on new political ad rules

Washington, D.C. is extending an invitation to Silicon Valley. The Federal Elections Commission has asked the CEOs of Facebook, Alphabet,… Read More

Scientists verify that fake news outruns truth on Twitter — and call for a fix

A study published in the journal Science provides hard evidence that fake news — or, to use the researchers’ preferred term,… Read More

Twitter stock soars 25% after company reports first-ever profit

Shares of Twitter were up 25 percent after the company posted its first-ever profit for the fourth quarter of 2017.… Read More

Video play-by-play of a Seattle vandal armed with a mop cleans up in the comedy department

Here’s some Friday internet advice for you: Skip the memo, and go with the mop. An apparently intoxicated gentleman armed… 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

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