SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter, Inc. announced that Jack Dorsey has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the social messaging site and that the Board of Directors has unanimously appointed Chief Technical Officer Parag Agrawal (photo above) as CEO and a member of the Board, effective immediately. Dorsey was a founder of Twitter in 2005 and […]
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Marvell Named Fittest Firm in Silicon Valley Turkey Trot
SANTA CLARA — Marvell Technology was awarded “Fittest Firm” in the 16th annual Silicon Valley Turkey Trot that was held virtually this year. Marvell has sponsored – and won – the Turkey Trot Fittest Firm Competition since 2016, having the largest number of employee registrants of any participating company, of any size in Silicon Valley […]
Mariah Carey Christmas Special to Debut Dec. 3 on Apple TV+
Mariah Carey, superstar singer best known for holiday hit All I Want for Christmas is You, will debut her new Christmas show on Apple TV+ this Friday, December 3. This is the second consecutive year that Carey has taped a holiday show for Apple TV+. The highly anticipated special will reveal the first and only […]
Google Adds Food Bank Info to Search and Maps
Google has launched a new initiative to expand the information about food banks and pantries in Search results and Maps. The company is adding existing coverage with data from two initial nonprofit partners: WhyHunger and Hunger Free America, and has added information to make sure people searching for food support can find what they need. These changes […]
Adobe Teams Up With Major League Baseball
SAN JOSE — Adobe has announced a major expansion of its partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) to reimagine fan engagement and continue to bring America’s favorite pastime to the next generation of fans – powered across Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Adobe Sign. The partnership will allow MLB to bring new personalized, […]
Facebook Portal Offers Up to $100 Off on Black Friday
Facebook has discounts of up to $100 off on its Portal devices for Black Friday. The deal is good through Cyber Monday on November 29, 2021. The Portal TV device — that lets you connect the Portal to your TV screen — is originally $149 and now on sale for just $79. A Portal with […]
Salvation Army Kicks Off Holiday Campaign at Dallas Cowboys Game
The Salvation Army’s 131st annual Red Kettle Campaign launches the season of giving on Thanksgiving and is calling on a generous public to help ensure hope marches on for millions of Americans continuing to combat the impacts of pandemic poverty. The holiday fundraising campaign will ramp up at AT&T Stadium this afternoon with a special […]
NASA Launches DART Spacecraft to Hit Asteroid
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Just one part of NASA’s larger planetary […]
Uber Introduces Uber One Membership
Uber, the leading ride-sharing service and the second-largest food delivery service, has introduced a membership program called Uber One. Priced at $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year, customers can get discounts on both rides and food delivery. The program is similar in price to Dashpass on Doordash except Uber is offering discounts on both […]
Doordash Dasher App Suffers Outage
Doordash, the nation’s leading food delivery service, experienced problems with its Dasher app for drivers Wednesday evening. The Dasher app had problems for nearly two hours with drivers (also known as dashers) unable to access or receive orders. The problems happened after 5 pm Eastern Time but seemed to have been resolved a few hours […]
Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Company
CUPERTINO — Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its Pegasus spyware. To prevent further abuse and harm to its users, Apple […]
Malala to Teach MasterClass on Creating Change
SAN FRANCISCO –– MasterClass, a streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best across a wide range of subjects, \announced that the world’s youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate and award-winning author and activist Malala Yousafzai will teach a class on creating change. With powerful stories from her personal journey of becoming an activist, Malala will […]










