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Catching up with Steve Ballmer on AI, sports tech, the economy, fake news and life after Microsoft

It has been nearly four years since Steve Ballmer left his job as Microsoft CEO, and he’s noticeably more relaxed… Read More

Trump

Three days after Trump’s nuclear button tweet, Twitter defends world leaders and ‘global conversation’

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is most certainly used to getting mentioned in tweets on his own platform calling out other… Read More

Soundwave tattoo

Listen to this tattoo: Woman’s viral video shows waveform ink featuring voicemail from her grandma

A young woman using social media to show off her new tattoo sounds like a story that could have been… Read More

As U.S. braces against brutal cold snap, President Trump calls for ‘good old global warming’

President Trump might want to brace against the cold chill of the internet. With much of the northern and eastern… Read More

US Capitol

The Library of Congress has archived every public tweet for 12 years — and that’s changing in 2018

The Library of Congress is getting burned out on the massive volume of public tweets it has been archiving, and… Read More

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Watch: Dance routine at Amazon fulfillment center in Spain captures all the feels for Jeff Bezos

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Madrid, Spain, showed off their dance moves in a video that even caught… Read More

Twitter

Latest Twitter tweak will let users create and publish an entire tweetstorm all at the same time

Twitter is really into users having the ability to say as much as they want on the social platform these… Read More

Barack Obama

Plea for free chicken nuggets, and three Obama messages, among most retweeted tweets of 2017

For all the attention that our current president gets for what he does on Twitter, the guy who preceded him… Read More

Deadline 2020: Regulators need to catch up to social media propaganda by the next big election

Social media’s greatest strength and weakness is the egalitarianism that defines it. Facebook and Twitter have given a voice to… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Bots meddle in a pivotal election and Twitter finally goes to 280 characters

At this point, it’s clear that foreign actors tried to impact the 2016 presidential election through social media, often using… Read More

Twitter 280

Twitter rolls out 280-character limit with confidence that brevity will still be preferred by most

OK, let’s keep this short. That’s always been the point, right? Twitter on Tuesday announced that its limited test allowing… Read More

Move fast and fix things: Why the social web needs to start thinking differently about its products

The people and companies who created social media told us it would be a democratizing force that would bring the… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Twitter, Facebook and Google take on Congress

Should tech companies be responsible for how people use their products? That’s one of the tough questions Congress is facing as… Read More

Trump Twitter

Twitter adds safeguards after Trump account deactivated; report says employee was contractor

A day after President Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated by a rogue employee on that person’s last day of work,… Read More

No Trump on Twitter

Departing Twitter employee goes rogue, deactivates Donald Trump’s account for 11 (joyous) minutes

Fulfilling the fantasy of anyone who has ever wished they could just pull the plug on President Donald Trump’s Twitter… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Russian election meddling: ‘We are not going to stand for it’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today he is “dead serious” about getting to the bottom of Russian government-backed agents’ impact on… Read More

Facebook, Twitter and Google can’t say how far-reaching Russian political influence is on their platforms

Top lawyers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google confirmed that they still don’t know how much influence Russian government-backed agents wield… Read More

Facebook, Twitter and Google grapple with a new reality as Russia revelations continue to mount

We’ve come a long way since Mark Zuckerberg famously said that it was “crazy” to think fake news on Facebook… Read More

Facebook, Google and Twitter waffle on push to bring transparency to political ads on social media

In a revealing exchange during the first Congressional hearing on tech platforms and Russian election meddling, lawyers from Facebook, Google,… Read More

Facebook

Reports: 126M Facebook users saw content from Russian agents around Election Day

Russian government-backed agents created posts that reached about 126 million Facebook users around the Nov. 8 election, according to reports… Read More

Survey: Americans don’t trust Big Tech or the government to prevent foreign election interference

On Wednesday, three of the biggest tech companies in the country will testify before Congress on how their products facilitated Russian meddling… Read More

Tech news sites quietly rely on this word to create drama in headlines, analysis reveals

GeekWire has quietly performed a detailed analysis of one of the most overused words in tech news. See if you… Read More

Twitter

Twitter admits it overstated its user base, but Wall Street doesn’t care as stock spikes 16%

Twitter disclosed this morning that it has been overstating the number of monthly active users for close to three years.… Read More

Uber dog

Service dog rides shotgun in an Uber and woman’s photo on Twitter is worth a 5-star rating

Can all Ubers come with dogs from now on, please? A woman’s tweet showing a service dog riding shotgun in… Read More

Pause Pod

Wait, that’s already a thing! Tweet calls out four products signaling we’re all living in a tech bubble

You know you’re in a tech bubble when new products and services attracting venture capital funding are starting to look… Read More

Women Boycott Twitter

The #WomenBoycottTwitter protest, over women being silenced, has made women louder on Twitter

A one day protest aimed at calling out Twitter and bringing attention to the way women are treated on the… Read More

Rose McGowan

Rose McGowan goes after Amazon and Jeff Bezos in latest tweets calling out abuses in Hollywood

Rose McGowan regained access to her Twitter account on Thursday following a temporary suspension by the social media platform for… Read More

Carl's Jr. Amazon

Fast food chain Carl’s Jr. hopes Amazon bites on its big ideas in playful bid to get bought by tech giant

Plenty of companies may fear the eventual day when Amazon will come knocking. The fast food chain Carl’s Jr. is… Read More

Satya Nadella
Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: Satya Nadella’s new book, Twitter goes to 280, and our trip to Microsoft’s mysterious new office

For anyone curious about the inner workings of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” is an interesting read. The… Read More

Twitter

Express yourself! Twitter doubling character count from 140 to 280 for some users

Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that… Read More

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