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Video: Facebook wants to read your brain and Ford has a new CEO

by Jennie Josephson
May 22, 2017
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The Capitol built a little ramp for DC ducks

by Kai Ryssdal
May 16, 2017
Maybe the cutest government infrastructure project.
A mother duck provides shade for her ducklings in a pond near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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Bloomberg will create a live, breaking news video stream just for Twitter

by Andy Uhler
May 1, 2017
A live news service from Bloomberg is one of many new video partnerships that Twitter unveiled today, part of a bid to attract new users and ad revenue.  Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
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Hello, goodbye: When execs make a quick exit

by Jana Kasperkevic
Mar 20, 2017
Uber's new president is leaving. He joins former leaders at Reddit, Yahoo, Twitter and others who served abbreviated terms.
Ellen Pao stepped down from her job as Reddit's CEO just months after she was appointed.
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Somebody's in McTrouble

by Jana Kasperkevic
Mar 16, 2017
Donald Trump’s favorite fast-food giant McDonald's deletes a tweet insulting the president.
McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook supported Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump’s first pick for Secretary of Labor, before Puzder withdrew.
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What it could take for Twitter to end harassment and abuse

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 8, 2017
Can they fix it?
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Teaching a brand to be clever on Twitter

by Stephanie Hughes
Feb 3, 2017
Live events like the Super Bowl offer companies a chance to give a 'social wink' to audiences.
"Brands can go back in time to that spontaneous moment, and create content around it," said Stacy Minero, the head of content planning at Twitter. She uses Joe Namath and his fur coat as an example.
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Corporate America’s Trump dilemma

by Marielle Segarra
Feb 1, 2017
Many companies have found themselves in the political spotlight with this new administration.
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The Badlands National Park's Twitter account goes rogue

by Kai Ryssdal
Jan 24, 2017
The account seemingly responds to the president's statement about environmentalism.
This August, 2001 photo shows the vast expanse of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota.  
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Companies try to avoid the Trump Twitter treatment

by Annie Baxter
Jan 18, 2017
It’s not even Inauguration Day yet, but we’re getting a pretty clear sense of President-elect Donald Trump’s negotiating style with corporate America. His tweets have chastised manufacturers like Carrier, GM and Ford for outsourcing jobs, prompting those companies to promise to add or retain jobs domestically. And now several others are promising expansions and investments […]
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