10:08 AM PDT Geek Life10:08 AM PDT Seattle’s Tom Douglas closing two restaurants near Amazon as pandemic keeps tech workers at home
9:56 AM PDT Amazon9:56 AM PDT Amazon Air buys 6M gallons of sustainable fuel — here’s what it means for the industry and planet
5:00 PM PDT Tech5:00 PM PDT DocuSign expands into remote notary business with $38M deal to buy Liveoak Technologies
4:05 PM PDT Amazon4:05 PM PDT Amazon adds hands-free voice activation to Alexa app, and gives users initial choice to opt in or out
2:41 PM PDT Tech2:41 PM PDT Geeks Gaming for Good: What you need to know for GeekWire’s first-ever Rocket League tournament
2:00 PM PDT Working Geek2:00 PM PDT As funding and demand align, Nori CEO Paul Gambill is ready to grow his carbon removal startup
1:07 PM PDT Amazon1:07 PM PDT Amazon joins Scott Turow, John Grisham, other top authors in effort to take down ‘pirate’ book site
11:23 AM PDT Tech Moves11:23 AM PDT Axiom CEO Elena Donio steps down and will return to the West Coast
10:30 AM PDT Amazon10:30 AM PDT How Seattle’s new payroll tax on Amazon and other big businesses will work
10:07 AM PDT Amazon10:07 AM PDT Amazon Prime Video rolling out individual profiles to allow users to personalize what they stream
10:04 AM PDT Amazon10:04 AM PDT Walmart to launch a $98/year Amazon Prime competitor for grocery delivery and other perks
7:37 AM PDT Microsoft7:37 AM PDT Augmented reality startup Magic Leap hires key Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson as its new CEO
5:10 PM PDT Amazon5:10 PM PDT Seattle passes big business tax on salaries of top earners after years of false starts
4:11 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences4:11 PM PDT Accolade CEO Raj Singh on health tech company’s IPO, path to profits, and the pandemic’s ‘second hit’
2:59 PM PDT Startups2:59 PM PDT Here are the Seattle-area tech companies that received a PPP loan from the federal government
9:51 AM PDT Amazon9:51 AM PDT Amazon stock hits $3,000 for the first time as investors continue betting on Seattle tech giant
9:47 AM PDT Amazon9:47 AM PDT Uber vs. Amazon and Instacart: $2.65B Postmates deal shows appetite for broader delivery market
7:47 AM PDT Games7:47 AM PDT Microsoft will reveal more about Halo: Infinite and other Xbox Series X games at July 23 event
6:57 AM PDT Tech6:57 AM PDT Expedia’s Vrbo vacation rental business sees ‘significant’ growth as travel giant aims to cut costs
8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 28, 2020
9:49 AM PDT Podcast GeekWire Podcast: What pandemic? Tech funding stays strong; Accolade’s IPO; Future of sports
12:12 PM PDT Science12:12 PM PDT Godspeed, Alan Boyle: GeekWire’s science editor winds down daily duties, will be contributing editor
11:16 AM PDT Podcast Pacific NW startup funding totals for first half of 2020 may surprise you — in fact, they shocked us
10:10 AM PDT Amazon10:10 AM PDT Amazon Go Grocery stores slated for Seattle area and Washington D.C., expanding retail footprint
8:44 AM PDT Space8:44 AM PDT British-Indian team puts in a winning $1B bid for OneWeb satellite broadband venture
8:22 AM PDT Cloud Tech8:22 AM PDT Meet the ‘chief availability officer’: Salesforce names Seattle-area exec to unusual C-suite role
5:46 PM PDT Tech5:46 PM PDT Washington state reports 700+ new COVID-19 cases, highest daily total since outbreak began
4:28 PM PDT Civic4:28 PM PDT Washington governor orders businesses not to serve customers who don’t wear masks
3:37 PM PDT Tech3:37 PM PDT Researcher with Seattle ties awarded $4.2M to develop DNA vaccine against COVID-19
