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Supreme Court hears Microsoft case challenging Trump’s decision to terminate DACA

Nineteen Microsoft employees traveled to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for a hearing in a critical immigration case that… Read More

Microsoft backs California data privacy law taking effect next year

Microsoft plans to make changes required by California’s new data privacy law available to all its U.S. customers, the company… Read More

Big Tech’s battle with Seattle is just getting started — and it could have implications nationwide

Bernie Sanders reveled in Amazon’s defeat. Elizabeth Warren issued a warning about Jeff Bezos. And that was all before the… Read More

Amazon bid for business-friendly Seattle council withers as adversary makes surprise comeback

Amazon’s top adversary on the Seattle City Council pulled ahead late Friday in the latest ballot count, deflating the tech… Read More

Microsoft goes to bat for Dreamer employees as Supreme Court prepares to hear DACA case

There’s the service and security engineer — brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was four years old —… Read More

Looming cuts to transit cast doubt on Microsoft’s vision for Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail

Microsoft’s aspiration to build one of America’s first high-speed rail lines in the Pacific Northwest hit a speed bump this… Read More

Unimpressed by the Un-carrier: T-Mobile is latest Seattle-area target for Elizabeth Warren

Add T-Mobile to the list of Seattle-area companies in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s crosshairs. The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful hasn’t pulled… Read More

Bill Gates ‘willing to talk’ after Elizabeth Warren offers to explain her wealth tax

Money talks. And talk of money gets people with money talking. That seems to be the case, at least on… Read More

Amazon’s $1.45M fails to upend Seattle City Council, but tech giant wins small victories

A heavily-funded campaign to elect a more business-friendly Seattle City Council saw some success in early election results released Tuesday… Read More

Democrat regulators warn FCC approval of T-Mobile-Sprint merger creates a ‘cozy oligopoly’

The Federal Communications Commission released its official order on T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint on Tuesday in a final regulatory seal… Read More

How Microsoft is approaching the Seattle region’s affordable housing crisis

When several Seattle business leaders decided to take on the region’s confounding housing crisis, they did their due diligence. Microsoft… Read More

Inside the ‘Tech to Protect’ hackathon that aims to help emergency responders with new technology

In the late 1990s, Barry Luke responded to a house call in Gainesville, Fla. The firefighter and his partner went… Read More

How Apple’s new $2.5B housing initiative stacks up vs. Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants

For years, fast-growing tech companies have drawn criticism for housing crises that have swelled in Seattle, and the San Francisco… Read More

Seattle’s upcoming election is inundated with tech money — and it’s not just Amazon

The tech industry is taking an unprecedented interest in Seattle’s upcoming election, spending big and turning the national spotlight on… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)

Satya Nadella: Staying out of politics, focusing on tech, helped Microsoft win Pentagon cloud contract

Microsoft’s surprise victory last week in a protracted competition to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has some critics asking whether… Read More

Twitter bans political advertising amid Facebook controversy — CEO Jack Dorsey explains why

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday his company will stop accepting political advertising on the platform. The surprise decision is… Read More

Tableau employees hold rally in Seattle, ask leadership to sever ties with ICE and CBP

Tableau employees are adding their voices to the chorus of tech workers demanding their employers cancel contracts with the federal… Read More

Microsoft: ‘We are proud that we are an integral partner’ of DoD after winning $10B JEDI contract

Microsoft finally issued a statement after the Department of Defense announced late Friday that it awarded a $10 billion cloud… Read More

Activists and politicians protest Amazon spending on Seattle elections: ‘The country is watching’

Amazon built its iconic “biospheres” as a gathering space for its 50,000 employees and an anchor to the Seattle neighborhood… Read More

Senators Warren and Wyden ask FTC to investigate Amazon’s culpability in Capital One data breach

Two Democrats in the Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s involvement in the Capital One data… Read More

Axon to add automatic license plate readers to police car systems

Axon, the police tech company formerly known as Taser, will add automatic license plate readers to its cop car dashboards.… Read More

Facebook launches $1B affordable housing initiative, joining tech peers trying to close the gap

Big tech companies are spending big money to address the affordable housing shortage plaguing their communities. The latest is Facebook,… Read More

Microsoft to host Seattle summit on high-speed rail connecting Pacific Northwest cities

High-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest has long been a dream of Microsoft and the tech giant is accelerating efforts… Read More

Bernie Sanders slams Amazon over hometown political spending as Seattle elections become a national issue

Sen. Bernie Sanders became the latest federal lawmaker to zero in on local Seattle elections Monday morning, slamming Amazon’s hometown… Read More

Warren denounces Amazon for ‘trying to tilt the Seattle City Council elections’ with $1.45M

It’s unusual for an east coast senator and presidential candidate to wade into local politics in a city on the… Read More

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Will Amazon’s $1.45M bid to shake up Seattle politics backfire, or work exactly as planned?

Amazon took a million-dollar gamble this week, betting a last-minute cash infusion will help elect a new Seattle City Council… Read More

Should Facebook ban political ads? Here’s what happened when one state tried to force the issue

Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s decision to continue running political ads this week, despite concerns about disinformation, in a passionate speech… Read More

Seattle officials and activists protest at Amazon HQ over $1.45M effort to ‘buy our City Council’

On a rainy Seattle Thursday, a group of politicians and activists huddled under a bright orange canopy that matched the… Read More

Oregon counties test mobile voting, allowing overseas citizens to cast ballots using smartphones

Two counties in Oregon are piloting mobile voting in the upcoming special elections in November. It’s the latest in a… Read More

FCC officially approves T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint but lawsuit still looms

The Federal Communications Commission approved T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint on Wednesday, formalizing a commitment that Chair Ajit Pai made back… Read More