alex halverson

tech reporter @seattletimes / ex - puget sound business journal, seattle p-i / send me leaks/tips at [email protected]

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

Lots of bad information out there --let's clear it up.

• Recent workforce changes were made to restructure the XBOX business because it is not healthy. They were not made to replace employees with foreign workers.
• The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals and new hire applications. They are not specific to XBOX and represent a small percentage of Microsoft's overall workforce. And the majority of roles impacted were not American roles.
• XBOX is the largest employer of American workers in the gaming industry and the largest American gaming company.
• And Asha is an American born, raised, and educated CEO, from Wisconsin.

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@ABarnesandnoble unveiling something like this should get you relegated

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@buildinbob1 @pulpmx i still can't understand where he went wrong

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@ABarnesandnoble my favorite one so far

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Is Belgium the greatest soccer team of all time?

These guys are monsters

[Won’t Delete This Until OU Scores @Doc_Texas]

USA vs Belgium

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

when it's time to get eliminated in the Round of 16

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@ABarnesandnoble take a xanax

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

dork

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

I’m a U.S. citizen who will be rooting for Belgium tonight. Probably just me.

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

More cuts at Microsoft this morning. While layoffs across the company are all part of capping the company's headcount, the situation at Xbox seems a little more dire. Or, as Xbox CEO Asha Sharma puts it:

"Our business today is not healthy."
https://t.co/K8zx8V4ISK

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Aaron Sorkin’s World Cup

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

What

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@imtravismarx the episode randomizer is good stuff man

[Jessica Smetana @jessica_smetana]

Back to Langley I’m afraid

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

if I were Germany, I would simply score four goals against Paraguay, like the United States men's national team

[Tom Smyth @Tom_Smyth_]

and what happens to the sheinhardt wig company?

[Jeromy Krom @Jkrom34]

Me: we probably won’t get baseball in 2027 :(

Me after watching the 2026 Seattle Mariners: we probably wont get baseball in 2027 :)

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@Jim_Brunner @seattletimes huh wonder why

[David P. Samson @DavidPSamson]

Yesterday, my daughter, Kyra, passed away peacefully after a 9 month and 11 day fight against one of the cruelest diseases I’ve ever seen up close. She was diagnosed with Brain Cancer, specifically Glioblastoma. I have felt all of your concern and love for these months and wasn’t ready to be anymore specific than I was.
Kyra was a 28-year-old young woman who loved deeply and who is impossible to describe in 280 characters. While her life got stolen from her, she handled these months with courage, poise, and resolve. And all I want is for no family to feel what we feel today. For no young person to suffer the way she did.

In lieu of flowers, if you are moved to make a memorial gift, please consider “The Kyra Fund” (https://t.co/4bl8cxV1Dt)

This fund will be used solely to research treatments for Glioblastomas.

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@Pauledroberts @TheStalwart back in my day we called it window shopping

[alex halverson @byalexhalverson]

@pulpmx the search function works surprisingly well, exceptional work marx