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Bellevue

Tech Moves: OfferUp bulks up leadership team, taps former Starz exec Ameesh Paleja as CTO

Bellevue, Wash.-based mobile marketplace startup OfferUp has hired Ameesh Paleja as its new chief technology officer. Paleja was previously the… Read More

Amazon’s rapid expansion in Seattle suburb could ignite a ‘real estate frenzy’, Redfin predicts

Bellevue, Wash., get ready to experience the Amazon effect. With the tech giant possibly cooling on Seattle and focusing its… Read More

Investor Heather Redman elected to lead board of Washington Technology Industry Association

Venture investor Heather Redman is the new chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), a business association and advocacy… Read More

Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet lays off 143 employees at Bellevue HQ and cancels projects

Editor’s note: This story and headline were updated to reflect the WARN notice. ArenaNet, the video game maker behind Guild… Read More

Protect your cores portably: ‘Defense Grid 2’ is coming to Nintendo Switch next month

Hidden Path Entertainment, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., announced on Wednesday that it will release a remastered edition of Defense Grid… Read More

With another new office lease for Amazon, this Seattle-area city is almost out of downtown space

Amazon will take another high rise tower in Bellevue, Wash., according to a real estate brokerage report, and because of… Read More

Portal VR session

A virtual-reality virgin finally takes the leap when Portal VR opens its second arcade

BELLEVUE, Wash. — My wife was a VR virgin. Tonia Boyle isn’t exactly a thrill-seeker. Skydiving, bungee jumping and zipline rides… Read More

Microsoft-funded U.S.-China tech institute GIX graduates first class, reveals student projects

The latest milestone for the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) came Sunday as the U.S.-China tech institute celebrated the graduation of… Read More

Epic Games uses its ‘Fortnite’ cash to challenge Steam in the digital-storefront ring

Epic Games, the video game developer behind Gears of War, the Unreal Engine, and the Fortnite franchise, announced on Tuesday morning with a… Read More

First look: ‘Giant Celebration’ lets you grow or shrink on demand to solve puzzles in VR

“Hidden object” games are probably easiest to define by comparing them to the popular Where’s Waldo line of children’s books.… Read More

Facebook inks two more leases in Bellevue, as tech companies hedge their bets across Seattle region

Facebook already has a large presence in Seattle’s urban core, but the company is increasingly expanding its operation to other… Read More

Google doubles down on Seattle region with giant new office leases

Google has reportedly inked a big lease in an office building in Bellevue, Wash., while at the same time embarking… Read More

Lime expands beyond Seattle as nearby Bellevue launches bikeshare pilot 

This week, bright green Lime bikes will begin appearing on Bellevue, Wash., streets. The city just announced a one-year dockless… Read More

Smart commute startup Luum steps out of the shadows with big partnerships and expansion plans

For nearly seven years, Luum has been quietly helping big Seattle-area employers reshape the commuting habits of their employees. But… Read More

A ‘punch in the gut’: Fast-growing Seattle startup eyes Bellevue after head tax vote

Seattle-based sales automation startup Outreach announced a new $65 million funding round Monday — but its CEO, Manny Medina, also had… Read More

After Seattle passes ‘Amazon tax,’ mayor of neighboring city says ‘Bellevue is open for business’

Speculation that Seattle’s new head tax could be a boon for neighboring cities has been swirling since before the City… Read More

As Seattle ‘head tax’ debate rages, Amazon eyes major expansion in nearby city

Amazon is gearing up for a potentially major expansion in Bellevue, Wash., Seattle’s neighbor to the east, at the same… Read More

Dockless bike sharing is expanding to Bellevue, applying lessons from Seattle

Dockless bike-sharing is picking up speed in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Transportation officials in Bellevue, Wash., are… Read More

One88

Are tech workers getting paid this well? Preview of Bellevue condo tower is latest sign of booming economy

There hasn’t been a new high-rise condominium development in Bellevue, Wash., in nearly a decade, but when One88 eventually opens,… Read More

Amazon expands to 10 bookstores with openings in Seattle area and San Jose this week

Amazon’s quest to become a powerhouse in brick-and-mortar retail continues, with the company opening new book stores in Bellevue, Washington… Read More

Amazon brings the boom to Bellevue: Here are the teams expanding into the tech giant’s big new office

Amazon is staffing up its big new Bellevue, Wash. office building, which looks ready for the coming deluge of badge-wearing,… Read More

OfferUp expanding Seattle area headquarters as headcount has doubled to 200 people in last year

OfferUp is more than quadrupling the size of its headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. as the mobile marketplace begins to put… Read More

Inside the luxury apartments in the $1.2B Lincoln Square expansion: 10-year leases, $25k/month penthouses and a ‘tech concierge’

Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts… Read More

Pokemon Go

Gamers celebrate Pokémon GO’s first anniversary in Bellevue this weekend

Gone are the days where Seattle’s streets were flooded with Pokémon GO players, pointing their phones at augmented-reality beasts and… Read More

Human and computer vision unite to help Microsoft engineers stop traffic deaths

In the U.S., car crashes kill roughly 40,000 people a year. That’s a loss of life equivalent to four to… Read More

Amazon makes a ‘regional play’ with surprise Bellevue expansion — and it could be just the start

More than two decades ago, long before Amazon was the king of online retail and cloud computing, the company ran… Read More

Amazon confirms plans for big new office in Bellevue; employees set to move in this summer

Amazon has confirmed previously-reported plans to open a big new office in downtown Bellevue, Wash. GeekWire reported last year that… Read More

Big cities see early benefits from the Internet of Things, and grapple with ongoing challenges

As many of the world’s biggest urban centers implement Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in a quest to become “smart cities”… Read More

Amazon Books

Amazon to open 10th brick-and-mortar bookstore, second in Seattle region, later this year

Amazon is opening another brick-and-mortar bookstore in 2017 — its 10th such retail location — in downtown Bellevue, Wash. Building… Read More

Inside Salesforce’s new 70K square-foot Bellevue office: Mindfulness zones, social spaces, and more

One of the world’s fastest growing enterprise software companies today opened the doors to its new home in the Seattle area. San… Read More

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