4:19 PM PDT Startups4:19 PM PDT Washington Technology Industry Association names Kristen Forecki as new board chair
3:06 PM PDT Tech3:06 PM PDT Google and Amazon workers protest tech giants’ contract with Israel as war in Gaza continues
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8:39 AM PDT Startups8:39 AM PDT Tech Moves: Avalara names president; Microsoft vet launches AI forum; Common Room adds product leader
7:03 AM PDT Tech7:03 AM PDT Destination Spokane: How remote work and new arrivals are changing one tech community
10:31 PM PDT Microsoft10:31 PM PDT Microsoft invests $1.5B in G42, the Emirati AI holding company based in Abu Dhabi
1:57 PM PDT Startups1:57 PM PDT Portland startup goes national with service that finds residential properties for team meetings
8:43 AM PDT Startups8:43 AM PDT Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office
8:00 AM PDT Startups8:00 AM PDT Former Facebook engineers lead Seattle-based investment firm backing data-focused startups
7:00 AM PDT Startups7:00 AM PDT Cybersecurity startup that helps companies secure industrial systems opens Seattle office
8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 7, 2024
9:02 AM PDT Startups9:02 AM PDT Tech Moves: Former DreamBox Learning CEO joins VC firm; First Fed hires Seattle entrepreneur
8:14 AM PDT Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society
8:16 PM PDT Sustainability8:16 PM PDT Bill Gates really digs his visit to a hydrogen startup, filling a pothole with carbon-trapping asphalt
5:39 PM PDT Amazon5:39 PM PDT Kuiper satellite network gets a big lift from Amazon’s CEO, but timeline is a bit hazy
10:03 AM PDT Amazon10:03 AM PDT Thinking in primitives at the world’s biggest startup: Notes on Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual letter
7:00 AM PDT Bot or Not7:00 AM PDT Seattle Public Schools piloting AI software from new startup for students and teachers
6:18 AM PDT Amazon6:18 AM PDT Amazon names business and tech leader Andrew Ng to its board, boosting AI expertise
6:00 AM PDT Startups6:00 AM PDT Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup
3:58 AM PDT Amazon3:58 AM PDT Exec pay: New filing shows how much Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made in compensation in 2023
5:16 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences5:16 PM PDT Vertex will buy Alpine Immune Sciences for $4.9B in another big Seattle biotech deal
1:13 PM PDT Games1:13 PM PDT Seattle studio Mega Crit reveals sequel to surprise indie-game hit ‘Slay the Spire’
12:53 PM PDT Startups12:53 PM PDT Seattle firm Curious makes first acquisition, buying infrastructure platform Convox
11:12 AM PDT Sustainability11:12 AM PDT Nearly 1 in 5 new cars registered in Washington state last year were EVs or plug-in hybrids
8:15 AM PDT Startups8:15 AM PDT Building a more mature Seattle startup ecosystem: A conversation with Peter Mueller of Breakwater
7:49 AM PDT Sustainability7:49 AM PDT Carbon, weeds and toxics are in the crosshairs for GeekWire Awards sustainability finalists
7:04 AM PDT Startups7:04 AM PDT This energy startup wants to make utility data more accessible — and spur creation of new companies
12:00 PM PDT Tech12:00 PM PDT UW joins $110M U.S.-Japan academic partnership for AI that includes support from NVIDIA, Amazon
