GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

shared a video on Twitter on Friday, two days after playing during the Kraken’s 6-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks. ” The song takes aim at Bezos, the tech billionaire whose company put the name on the venue where the band was playing. Shut down, all the bookstores. The band Who Is She? Oh no, Jeffrey Bezos.

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Vox

MARCH 10, 2023

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech’s favorite bank just failed. If you work in tech , you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches , and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists, and tech firms.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Software, less than two years after he took the helm of the Seattle-based data visualization company owned by Salesforce. Nelson announced the news on Twitter and LinkedIn. Salesforce stock is down more than 40% this year amid the broader market downturn. Mark Nelson.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Twitter’s acquisition spree continues today with Scroll , a $5-a-month subscription service that removes ads from participating news sites (including The Verge ). Twitter is working on building out a new kind of subscription plan that will include Scroll, the recently acquired Revue newsletter service , and other homegrown Twitter services.

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Vox

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This was not a great year for Big Tech. Silicon Valley was one of the hardest-hit places, partly because some of its companies had experienced such explosive and sustained growth for so long that it almost didn’t seem possible for that growth to stop or even slow down. And yet, here we are. And yet, here we are.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Fry’s Electronic’s, the big-box chain that was a longtime, one-stop shop for tech enthusiasts, is shutting down after 36 years in business. The Company will implement the shut down through an orderly wind down process that it believes will be in the best interests of the Company, its creditors, and other stakeholders.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2022

But tech companies do business in individual countries. So tech companies have to obey those countries’ rules, even if they’re onerous or worse. Now that’s over: Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine , Big Tech has finally taken a side. Instead, this is more of a long-term issue for Big Tech. The internet is global.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

It feels like just about every big tech company is working on a Clubhouse-like social audio feature — Twitter’s Spaces feature is rolling out now , Facebook is reportedly building one , Spotify is making one , Mark Cuban has one , even Slack is getting in the game. LinkedIn said the feature will begin beta testing soon.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The journal wanted to reach new readers by promoting the issue through targeted advertisements on Twitter and YouTube. That’s why it was so frustrating when Twitter and Google blocked its ads before they could go up, says Patti Sweet, the director of digital strategy at Health Affairs.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

Twitter has outlined how it intends to “fully comply” with India’s new social media rules after the government said its lack of compliance meant it could be held legally liable for its user’s posts, Bloomberg reports. Twitter is required to fill each of the roles under new regulations introduced this year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Twitter is acquiring Quill | Quill. Twitter has acquired Slack-like messaging app Quill with an eye toward improving messaging services, including direct messages, the company announced Tuesday. Quill will shut down, but its team will join Twitter’s Experience org. Nick Caldwell (@nickcald) December 7, 2021.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Elon Musk at the Paris Viva Tech Fair. The group has criticized Twitter for its permissive content moderation policies, but the legal standard for defamation is dauntingly high. His allegations have also kicked off a Twitter/X hashtag, #BanTheADL, eagerly seized by antisemites. Why did Elon Musk start a feud with the ADL?

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

NBA CourtOptix Powered by Microsoft Azure utilizes the tech giant’s artificial intelligence and machine learning to track and analyze action on the court and turn it into insightful video about how well players perform in various situations and how that data stacks up against league averages. (NBA CourtOptix screenshot).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2023

Funding to startups in the Pacific Northwest was down more than 50% in the second half of 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021, according to data from GeekWire’s fundings list. Hottest tech of 2023: AI infrastructure. Most overhyped tech of 2023: Quantum computing, we still need some time to make that one real.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Welcome to Technology Short Take #176! Thanks for reading! Read more about it in this post.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Without knowing who “we” refers to, you might think he’s talking about how the entire tech industry has failed to keep sites like Facebook and Twitter from creating echo chambers and polarizing politics around the world (though some argue we can’t blame social networks alone). It’s “not what we intended.”.

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Vox

APRIL 18, 2021

He’s not the only Big Tech executive who’s gotten interested in that idea recently: Twitter has already launched Spaces, its own take on Clubhouse. And if you want a thoughtful critique of Clubhouse’s product challenges, I suggest you read this Twitter thread from tech investor Shaan Puri. That fizzled out pretty fast.).

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Vox

JUNE 14, 2023

But others have said they’ll stay down indefinitely. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and, yes, Reddit, are either seeing their massive profits get slightly less massive or are feeling the pressure to make a profit at all. Several other third-party apps have said they plan to shut down, too.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

A new letter from a tech industry group is driving home the risks of Hong Kong’s proposed anti-doxxing rules. The letter raises new questions about the future of US tech company employees in Hong Kong. The letter was first obtained by The Wall Street Journal. offering their services in Hong Kong.”.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rao Lakkakula, JPMorgan Chase senior director of security engineering, oversees the Seattle tech hub. Five years after opening in Seattle, the company’s tech hub in the downtown business district has now surpassed 320 people. Amid this upheaval, more engineers are considering roles outside the traditional tech industry.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Seattle tech giant extended its remote work policy, which previously was set until Jan. Other nearby businesses in downtown Seattle are also suffering as tech companies allow remote work. The company employs more than 50,000 tech workers at its Seattle HQ. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2022

A flurry of tech companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are halting sales of services and products in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting government sanctions. tech giants could take it a step further and cut off access to Russian companies using their cloud computing services.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast , where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. Microsoft’s GitHub CEO steps down. Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program. Image: Microsoft.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Credits: New Line Cinema (left); Tristan Elwell for Tor Books (right) There’s nary a mention of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates in “Starter Villain,” but science-fiction author John Scalzi’s wickedly funny novel finds ways to skewer the tech billionaires who rule our world without dropping names. A similar superhero-vs.-supervillain

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In March 2017, I drove down to the Instagram offices in Menlo Park to meet with founder Kevin Systrom. One place stories never showed up was an app where their inclusion felt obvious, at least to me: Twitter. Then in March, ephemeral tweets finally appeared on Twitter. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2020

The seemingly unstoppable trend of tech companies and talent concentrating in a few cities hit a brick wall in March. cases of the coronavirus emerged in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area, tech companies pioneered a nationwide shift to remote work. If so, what does it mean for the future of the tech industry in America?

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

Ben Bajarin, CEO and principal analyst at the tech industry research firm Creative Strategies, acknowledged that Nvidia had been “relatively isolated to a niche part of computing in the market” until recently. Nvidia, founded in California in 1993, originally made chips mainly used for gaming.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

Twitter is now legally liable for content posted by its users in India after failing to comply with the country’s new IT rules, the government said in a legal filing. Although the Indian government has claimed Twitter has lost this legal protection, experts have said that the final decision ultimately rests with India’s courts.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It has not been a happy time for researchers at big tech companies. For these reasons, it’s always of note when a tech platform takes one of those unflattering findings and publishes it for the world to see. At the end of October, Twitter did just that. On one hand, I don’t want to overstate Twitter’s bravery here.

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Vox

JANUARY 30, 2023

Tech companies are doing their best to conjure up the good old days when they were startups. The real topic at hand was whether a tech giant can or should try to behave like a startup. This kind of messaging is emerging as America’s biggest tech companies are starting to show their age.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

That sentiment echoes what Zillow CEO Rich Barton said back in April on Twitter and follows what many companies are learning about the potential for worker collaboration and productivity during the ongoing health crisis. My personal opinions about WFH have been turned upside down over the past 2 months.

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Vox

MARCH 19, 2021

And competitors — including ones from Facebook and Twitter — are definitely coming after Substack. From YouTube to Facebook to Snapchat to TikTok, big tech companies have long been trying to figure out ways they can convince people and publishers to make content for them without having to hire them as full-time content creators.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

How an exodus of tech workers could reshape Silicon Valley The tech workers in Silicon Valley know you want them gone. If it was more affordable, if there weren’t homelessness issues, would I consider settling down here? The possibility has sparked a variety of think pieces about how a tech exodus could reshape Silicon Valley.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Should Twitter be held responsible for the Islamic State’s terrorist acts because ISIS used Twitter’s website? With little more than these vague statements to rely upon, the nine justices spent much of Wednesday’s argument in Twitter v. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This is what happens when important laws make no sense.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Russia has already cracked down on news outlets and social platforms amid its invasion of Ukraine, disputing external death reports that far exceed its own count and objecting to descriptions of the invasion as a war rather than a “special military operation.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

a respected lawyer, devoted civic leader, trusted mentor, and influential philanthropist who helped to shape Seattle’s tech industry even before his son co-founded Microsoft, died Monday of Alzheimer’s disease. ” In a post on Twitter , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, “Bill Gates Sr. Bill Gates Sr.,

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

SeekOut’s tech: The company’s “Talent 360 ” software is like LinkedIn on steroids. SeekOut’s tech: The company’s “Talent 360 ” software is like LinkedIn on steroids. An increasing emphasis on data-driven decision-making and the tech talent gap are also benefiting SeekOut.

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