Alice Truong

For more than 20 years, Boeing employee Leslie Shook, 60, has been known by another nickname: Bitchin’ Betty.

The funeral of former US first lady Nancy Reagan is taking place Friday (March 11) in Simi Valley, California. While Hillary Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama will be in attendance to pay their respects, US president Barack Obama will instead be at South by Southwest, the annual music-film-tech confab held in Austin, Texas.

Verizon, the largest US wireless carrier by subscribers, was slapped with a $1.35 million fine by the US Federal Communications Commission yesterday (March 7) for its use of “supercookies” that track users’ web browsing activity without their knowledge.

Meerkat—the live video-streaming app that was the buzz of SXSW last year—is admitting defeat against rival Periscope.

For all the success enjoyed by Clash of Clans, the mobile game from Supercell never made it to the top of the daily app charts. It was the top grossing game for most of 2014 and 2015, but it never did better than No. 4 on iOS or No. 12 on Android in terms of downloads in a day.

AT&T filed an amicus brief today (March 3) backing Apple in its fight against the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Uber more than doubled how much it spent lobbying US Congress in 2015 compared to the year before, according to disclosure forms filed with the government. Last year, the ride-sharing company—which is raising a new round of financing that would value it at $62.5 billion—spent $470,000 on lobbying expenses, up 135% from 2014.

The battle between Apple and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation continued in the nation’s capital yesterday (March 1) with congressional leaders grilling both parties in a five-hour-long judiciary hearing.

The FBI has been clear about what it wants: for Apple to help it bypass the security features on an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, so it can unlock the phone without wiping the data off the device.

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Amy works for Dennis. She schedules his meetings and in general makes his hectic life as an entrepreneur a little easier.

The future of Twitter, according to CEO Jack Dorsey, is live—as in right now.

Apple is showing some sass in its campaign against the US government’s attempt to bypass iPhone security. The company filed a motion today (Feb. 25) to vacate the court order (pdf) requiring Apple to help the FBI break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

FuckedCompany colorfully chronicled the collapse and failure of the first dot-com boom. Now a tool called Downround Tracker launched today by research firm CB Insights is providing running detail on the current round of failures and disappointments among internet startups.

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Solidifying his status as the GOP presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump easily won the Nevada caucus Tuesday (Feb. 23) night, seizing three straight victories in early-voting states. But there was a much fiercer battle between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for second place—the candidate who will ultimately position himself as the alternative to Trump.

Economic slowdown or not, there’s one simple reason why smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung are so heavily invested in China.

Talia Jane, the 25-year-old who worked as a customer support agent for Yelp’s food-delivery app, Eat24, made headlines over the weekend for her scathing open letter to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman about not being paid a living wage.

By now, it seems everyone and their grandma is on Facebook.

A curious sequence of events unfolded on Twitter yesterday (Feb. 19) afternoon. A Yelp employee published a scathing open letter to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman about her bleak living conditions despite working in the tech industry. Shortly after sharing her post on Twitter, she acknowledged that she could get fired. And, not two hours later, she was.

Luxury watch makers that wrote off smartwatches as a threat are learning a crucial lesson: Never underestimate Apple.

Chances are you have a flash drive that’s collecting dust in a drawer somewhere. But for someone living in North Korea, that same drive could be a window to the outside world.

Apple isn’t backing down against the FBI, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn’t think the iPhone maker should do so.

Updated at 4am EST.