Sunday April 11, 2021
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Saturday April 10, 2021
Amazon warehouse employees voted against unionization in Bessemer, Ala., in a victory for the company and a defeat for organized labor. But the process put ... Continue Reading »
Saturday April 10, 2021
Jeff Bezos surprised some Amazon critics and followers this week by throwing his weight behind a federal corporate tax hike to help pay for President ... Continue Reading »
Saturday April 10, 2021
On April 15, anyone in Washington state who is 16 or older can roll up their sleeve and get a shot of COVID-19 vaccine. And ... Continue Reading »
Saturday April 10, 2021
— Rad Power Bikes co-founder Ty Collins has stepped down from the rapidly growing e-bike startup. Collins, who was chief marketing officer, is now in ... Continue Reading »
Friday April 09, 2021
An investment firm with a short position in Porch Group, standing to benefit if its share price falls, released a report questioning the Seattle-based home ... Continue Reading »
Friday April 09, 2021
New funding: Seattle-based startup Dendron has raised $2 million in seed funding for its open source note-taking tool that helps users manage any amount of ... Continue Reading »
Friday April 09, 2021
Twitch hit another viewership record last month, buoyed by hot content like watching people sleep and a roleplaying mod for an eight-year-old sandbox game. It’s ... Continue Reading »
Friday April 09, 2021
In a public defeat for organized labor, a sizable majority of Amazon warehouse employees voted against unionization in Bessemer, Ala. in an election overseen by ... Continue Reading »
Friday April 09, 2021
A lot can change in the landscape during a year in which social isolation is the norm. At the University of Washington, the Hans Rosling ... Continue Reading »
Friday April 09, 2021
ReadySub, a Seattle-based maker of a cloud-based scheduling platform for school districts, has been acquired by Tyler Technologies, a company that provides software and technology ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
Amazon appears well on its way to thwarting an attempt to unionize workers at its Bessemer, Ala. plant with the pro-union vote falling well behind ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
CoinFlip, a supplier of cryptocurrency ATM machines, is bringing the ease of bitcoin transactions to locations across Washington state. The Chicago-based company is among a ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
New report: A market analysis for the first quarter of 2021 from the commercial real estate company Broderick Group expresses optimism that after a year ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
New funding: Spot, a year-old company led by the founders of billion-dollar startup Outreach, has raised $1.7 million. Company background: GeekWire initially spotted Spot back in ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
Twitch users may now face punitive measures by the service for actions that occurred offline, on other platforms, or before they started using Twitch at ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
New funding: At a moment when vaccines are on everyone’s mind, a Seattle-based biotech company that has an unusual approach to vaccine production has raised ... Continue Reading »
Thursday April 08, 2021
Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group named Patricia Menendez-Cambo, deputy general counsel of SoftBank Group and general counsel of the SoftBank Latin America Fund and SoftBank ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
Google has announced plans to start bringing workers back to the company’s offices in the Puget Sound region, including on campuses in Seattle’s South Lake ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
SpaceX is leasing a 124,907-square-foot building complex that’s under construction in Redmond Ridge Business Park, east of Seattle, according to the latest industrial real estate ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
The news: T-Mobile made a series of announcements Wednesday as part of its latest ‘Un-carrier’ initiative, including the official launch of its new home internet service, ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
Amazon is probably not smiling this morning about an apparent protest movement started by a driver who is placing cardboard boxes upside down during deliveries ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
As COVID-19 sent everyone retreating to social isolation and virtual gatherings, it proved particularly difficult for the performers and musicians who rely on live events ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
New startup: Vijaye Raji, a tech vet who previously led Facebook’s 5,000-person engineering outpost in Seattle, is CEO and founder of Statsig, a Seattle-area company ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
The unionization votes are now in the hands of the National Labor Relations Board and the two factions have completed their challenges to individual ballots ... Continue Reading »
Wednesday April 07, 2021
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos today endorsed the Biden administration’s call for a higher corporate tax rate to help pay for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. In ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
At an international health conference this week, scientists with the University of Washington and Microsoft Research will virtually present new technology that allows medical providers ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
Plenty of tech personalities and veterans have turned to the popular invite-only conversation app Clubhouse for insights related to the industry. Now a new startup ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is contributing $1 million to help underserved communities in King County receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. As the vaccination campaign ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
Starbucks is launching a new effort to cut down on waste from its ubiquitous beverage cups with a limited trial in Seattle of a “Borrow ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
Two of the wireless charging systems made by Seattle-based WiBotic have won safety approvals in Europe, marking what the startup’s CEO calls a major milestone. ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021Porch Group, the Seattle-based home services software company, completed its $100 million acquisition of Homeowners of America Inc. on Tuesday morning, its biggest deal since ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
ConductorOne announced a $5 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel. Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital and Active Capital also participated. Founded ... Continue Reading »
Tuesday April 06, 2021
In 10 days, Washington state will open up COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 16 and over who wants a shot. The question is, will you be ... Continue Reading »
