Butterflies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based social media platform that combines human and AI-generated content, launched Tuesday after raising $4.8 million in seed funding. After five months in beta, Butterflies is billed… Read More
At the risk of beating a not-dead, just-missing zebra, here’s another story about the story that won’t quit this week. In case you’ve been off Facebook, X and nearly every… Read More
TikTok is looking to aggressively grow its employee footprint in the Seattle area as the social media video app takes on Amazon for e-commerce shoppers, according to a report Thursday… Read More
Scanning through a list of court filings last Friday evening, Jan. 6, one case jumped out immediately: “SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, Plaintiff, v. META PLATFORMS, INC., FACEBOOK HOLDINGS, LLC,… Read More
Elon Musk’s plan to purchase Twitter would bring with it massive cuts to the social media company’s workforce, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post. Citing interviews and… Read More
Quick-spreading claims on social media over the weekend about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area have been refuted by law enforcement officials and debunked by fact checkers. A… Read More
A professor whose tweet about Queen Elizabeth II was called out by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others, has been rebuked by the university where she works. Dr. Uju Anya,… Read More
The world is overwhelmed with contradictory data and claims. High school students in Seattle want to help. Last month Ballard High School hosted MisinfoNight, an event inspired by MisinfoDay, an… Read More
ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of social video app TikTok, is expanding in the U.S. with a 44,000-square-foot office in Bellevue, Wash. The space, subleased from enterprise tech giant SAP… Read More
A new Seattle startup is launching next month targeting the influencers and creatives who make TikTok and Instagram popular. LitPic believes it can differentiate itself in a hotly competitive space… Read More
Starbucks is the latest big company to rethink advertising on Facebook, announcing Sunday it will stop paying for content across all social media platforms while consulting with civil rights groups… Read More
What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn, and as I was editing GeekWire contributing writer Christopher Budd’s… Read More
The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for the world of technology. Recent security problems with security cameras… Read More
Maven, the Seattle-based media company that purchased Sports Illustrated earlier this year, has raised $20 million and revealed more of its strategy for the iconic sports publication, as well as… Read More
If you’re a frequent taker of images of yourself — “selfies” — you may not click “like” on this story. Scientists at Washington State University have taken a closer look… Read More
Twitter users had to go elsewhere on the internet Thursday to find out what’s going on in the world — including with Twitter — as the social media giant suffered… Read More
Six weeks ago, Microsoft President Brad Smith sat down with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to discuss how to prevent the online spread of a violent attack, like the… Read More
A who’s who of U.S. tech and social media giants is joining forces with international leaders to fight the violent extremism that has found a voice on their platforms. On… Read More
In this episode of Geared Up, Andru Edwards and I discuss the FaceTime bug that allowed iPhone users to eavesdrop on the person they called, reports of a new gaming… Read More
U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it said it was ready to “drop something much, much bigger”… Read More
In this episode of TLDR, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and most fun GeekWire moments of 2018. It was a big year for our reporters… Read More
Updated at 8:20 a.m. PT. First, they came for your chronological feed. Now, Instagram appears to be gunning for the ability to scroll up. But in the most bizarre update… Read More
Facebook plans to pause the sale of political ads for state and local races in Washington by the end of the year. The announcement comes on the heels of a… Read More
Facebook and Google have settled dual lawsuits with the Washington attorney general over alleged violations of the state’s political advertisement disclosure laws Tuesday, court documents revealed. Each company agreed to pay… Read More
Facebook is making regular headlines for expanding its footprint with big new office leases in the Seattle region, and new numbers from the social networking giant help to explain what’s… Read More
A whopping 79 percent of Americans believe that tech companies should be regulated in the same way that news organizations are, according to a new survey from Gallup and Knight… Read More
Earlier this year Jeff Reifman — a veteran of the Seattle tech industry — contacted Grab Your Wallet co-founder Shannon Coulter with an idea. He had compiled lists of Twitter accounts… Read More
Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate apps and partner on delivery as coffee culture takes hold… Read More
Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends poop to Seattle startup, leading to discovery of new kinds… Read More
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