GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people. Almost two years ago he made the jump from software engineer for companies including Deloitte Digital and Slalom Build to the nonprofit Climate Neutral, which certifies climate neutral brands.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Competitive edge: DroneSeed, which was part of the 2016 Techstars Seattle cohort, is reportedly the only company that has an FAA license to use a fleet of heavy-lift drones for post-fire reforestation. timber companies, nonprofits, government agencies and family-owned forests. DroneSeed previously raised $7.4 DroneSeed Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sawant’s proposed legislation would be a first-in-the-nation attempt to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. Samir Khobragade , a former Amazon engineer and current senior director of software engineering for cloud platforms at NetApp, has worked in tech for 26 years.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Prior to Scener, Braidwood was VP of marketing at Seattle startup TraceMe and previously CMO at SwiftKey, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

But a wave of misinformation on social media, not helped by Facebook’s abysmal track record on privacy and its reputation for obfuscating changes to its various terms of service agreements, has resulted in a full-blown WhatsApp backlash that has users fleeing to competitors like Signal and Telegram.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is “patchy,” some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019. French Gates has access to a deep bench of health and social-issue knowledge held by current and former employees of the Gates Foundation.

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Vox

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Twitter’s US user base was already in decline prior to the takeover by Musk,” said Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst for social media at Insider Intelligence. Several companies tried to capitalize on conservatives who thought Twitter was too biased toward liberals: Gab, Parler, GETTR, and Truth Social. It now has 5.6

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

The rise of local blogs, social media, and now newsletters have chipped away at the audience for major news sites over the past decade. One former seattlepi.com staffer, who recently left her role as a web producer for a job in nonprofit communications, expressed skepticism about Hearst’s long-term commitment, based on her experience.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Seattle-based Hiya, a caller ID startup that spun out of Whitepages in 2016, named Hillery Nye as general counsel and John Novak as SVP of marketing. He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. John Novak (left) and Hillery Nye. Hiya Photo). Snohomish, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2023

A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. A considerably smaller Canadian publication, the Tyee, reported on Wednesday that its social media manager, Sarah Krichel, was similarly blocked from viewing its Instagram account which, considering her job title, might be a bit of an issue.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

As for what or who is responsible for so many new users interested in trying the platform, which is operated by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, there are two likely culprits: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Signal competitor WhatsApp. Facebook says its new privacy policy changes nothing about consumer data sharing.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted in 2016 that televisions and phones would be replaced by holographic glasses. In 2016, for instance, millions of people fell in love with the phone-based AR game Pokémon Go. Others, like Facebook and Snap, made their names on ad-supported social networks.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. In many cases, Gregory says, it’s unclear exactly what social media platforms’ rules are about allowing AI-generated content.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2020

Performative social media is just a step toward lasting, impactful change. Navigating social media in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent national wave of protests has been a frustrating experience for many people — especially if they’re trying to figure out what to do and what not to do.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated. wrote the company’s head of health in an op-ed this month.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

The nonprofit, which provides rapid SMS-based access to counselors for people in crisis, had been trying to make inroads in black communities for years. But Jo, who worked at the company as a social media coordinator, found that her white boss did not agree. It’s very sad, but I’m struggling to see relevance,” she said.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. Tagboard originally launched as a social media aggregator. Galbraith previously served on the board of Zymeworks from 2009 to 2016. She joined the cancer research center in 2016 as director of strategic partnerships and alliances.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 12, 2020

since 1988 and announced its intention to move to Bellevue in 2016. The social media giant announced last week that it will allow employees to work from home until July 2021 as COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the U.S. .” It made several cost-cutting moves this year, including layoffs and salary reductions.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Founded in Boston in 2000, the nonprofit training program launched in the Puget Sound region in 2011 with a mission to “close the opportunity divide.” Students also receive “wraparound” support including career skill development and social services. Great businesses, incredible people, and a commitment to social conscience.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” The app relaunched in 2016, notably redesigned. At the time, McLeod said all this was meant to make the experience less anonymous and more like being on a social network than a dating app.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. Microsoft had one high-profile AI chatbot flop with its 2016 release of Tay, which Twitter users almost immediately trained to say some really offensive things. In other words, the AI wars have begun.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. And you know, that's, that's the reality of running a nonprofit or a business or even even personally, people have personal branding, right. CNN: A brilliant computer programmer, a world class university and a federal prosecutor.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

But what about something in between something like a car in 2016 I took a two day car hacking training session at BlackHat USA. We were trying to make sure we still maintain social distancing at our CTF and and in vehicles. And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“This is absolutely not true,” he told The Verge, “but we don’t comment on security procedures around the President’s social media accounts.”. Gevers previously claimed he breached Trump’s account in 2016. According to its new report, Gevers decided to run a new security test in 2020 by plugging in the old password.

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2021

The message might have drawn racist comments on Twitter or Facebook, but this was the world’s biggest professional social network — one where people had to use their real names and list their employer. Between 1970 to 2016, economic gains made by low-income Asians lagged behind other poor communities. What was the worst they would say?

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Other mediums for political advertising don’t allow campaigns to target voters with nearly the level of precision that Facebook does, and the lingering belief that Facebook swung the 2016 election to Donald Trump drew heightened scrutiny to the company’s ad practices in 2020. Privacy in research and social media is a genuinely hard question.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. What makes Signal different?

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Like Wikipedia, social media companies run on user-generated content, and they’re once again scrambling to come up with ways to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Something similar happens to Alex Stamos, the non-fictional former chief security officer of Facebook, in the wake of his 2016-17 investigation into Russian interference on the platform. The aftermath of the 2016 election, and Facebook’s role in it, were the original inspiration for this newsletter.)

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