Etsy has sent a marketing email promoting its standout sellers. “Meet some Star Sellers,” the email promises, referring to its new program. What’s a Star Seller? “it’s a new way to recognize some of the hardest working business owners on Etsy.   

Seattle cloud startup Skykick has raised $130 million in new funding, bringing totaling financing to date to $200 million. Morgan Stanley participated in the round. 

Incoming UK Information Commissioner John Edwards says the country is “free to go its own way” concerning GDPR. And he promises to be unbiased in regulating tech companies despite having called Facebook “"morally bankrupt pathological liars."

Tech workers are reconsidering Texas as a welcome location, given the state’s ban on abortions. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the firm would move employees who want to relocate because of the law. 

Corporate executives are sweating about a SEC investigation into the SolarWinds Russian hacking operation. They fear the probe might unveil cyber breaches unrelated to SolarWinds that they never intended to disclose. 

McDonald’s found itself in an embarrassing situation in the UK this week: customers who had won a prize drawing found login credentials for the development and production databases that drove the campaign in their email inboxes. An engineer who saw it reconized the code above the email body text as a Windows Azure database connection string. 

Donald Trump’s email fundraising machine is operating at full blast. New York Times columnist Gail Collins takes a wry look at what’s in her inbox, and what it all might mean. 

Acquia is acquiring Widen, including its digital access management platform and product information management. The tools help firms management marketing workflows. 

There are many privacy laws on the books in the U.S., although there are not many at the state level. Here’s a look at those that exist and what they do and don’t do. 

Howard University was hit by a ransomware attack that caused the school to take “many of our university systems offline.” In addition, Howard cancelled classes for Tuesday.