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Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal writer and producer Shonda Rhimes and Netflix have obtained TV rights to the memior of #MeToo icon and former Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ellen Pao. “So excited to be part of this next chapter for @shondaland and @shondarhimes!” Pao tweeted Friday, referring to the famed producer and her TV production company. […]

Facebook, despite all of its recent problems, continues to maintain that it is a safe place to find authentic connection and meaningful exploration. But almost overnight, after months of providing a safe space for thousands of women to speak about their sexual harassment and assault experiences, a Facebook group inspired by the #MeToo movement was […]

By Craig Timberg and Shane Harris | Washington Post On the eve of one of the newsiest days of the 2016 presidential election season, a group of Russian operatives fired off tweets at a furious pace, about a dozen each minute. By the time they finished, more than 18,000 had been sent through cyberspace toward […]

By Laurie McGinley | Washington Post Pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Friday that it will halt sales of its controversial Essure birth-control device in the United States at the end of the year, bringing to a close a protracted battle over an implant that thousands of women blame for serious health problems, including persistent pain and […]

By Gene Johnson | Associated Press A Canadian company is the first marijuana business to complete an initial public offering on a major U.S. stock exchange, raising $153 million to expand its operations as Canada prepares to legalize the drug nationwide. British Columbia-based Tilray Inc.’s shares began trading Thursday on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Initially […]

BRISBANE — Voters here will decide in November whether to double their city’s housing stock, saying yes or no to a massive mixed-used complex developers have been trying to build for years on the water’s edge just south of San Francisco. The Brisbane City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to place an amendment to the […]

Santa Clara County’s job market powered to robust gains during June, a sturdy upswing in hiring that sharply contrasted to the rest of the Bay Area and actually outgained the job additions in all of California, according to a state labor report released Friday. Employers in Santa Clara County added 2,900 positions during June, the […]

By Jena McGregor | Washington Post Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has emerged as a Twitter brawler with 22 million followers. And some of them seem happy to swing even harder than he does. Musk made headlines last week when he lashed out at a British cave explorer named Vernon Unsworth, calling him “pedo […]

SAN JOSE — Five office buildings — including the Tivo headquarters complex — near the banks of the Guadalupe River have been bought in a deal that appears to point to a big upswing of activity in north San Jose. The five buildings, tucked away on Gold Street in San Jose’s Alviso village, have been […]

The heat is on in the office of Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. And it’s all because he answered a call from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk. Several reports say Brune is dealing with — if not an uprising — at least an office full of upset Sierra Club employees and officials after he […]

Saying they want to put internet users first, some of tech’s biggest companies have teamed up to work on making it as easy as possible for people to take their online data wherever they want. Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft announced Friday that they have joined forces on the Data Transfer Project, whose ultimate goal […]

The word on the street has always been snitches get stitches. But one tattletale Twitter bot flies right into the age-old adage by disclosing Venmo users who tag their transactions with words or emojis related to drugs — all for the sake of promoting data privacy. Venmo is a mobile payment app in which friends […]