Articles about Seattle – Page 10 of 51

Microsoft commits $500M to address affordable housing and homelessness in the Seattle region

Microsoft is dedicating $500 million to fund construction of affordable homes and homeless services in the Seattle region in an effort… Read More

Beating Wikipedia by 2 years, Seattle’s HistoryLink remains an innovative online encyclopedia

Wikipedia was a groundbreaking initiative when it went live on Jan. 15, 2001. But a Seattle-based project called HistoryLink actually launched… Read More

Seattle left off Zillow’s hottest housing markets ranking as real estate slowdown continues

Seattle’s booming tech sector helped push the city to the title of the nation’s hottest housing market for close to… Read More

Good night, viaduct: Watch our final voyage over Seattle’s favorite elevated freeway

It was just after 9 p.m. and there we were in Tukwila, having just finished a soccer match. Should we… Read More

Days before Seattle viaduct closes forever, experts discuss how new tunnel is safest spot during quake

The Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle may have been the place where a lot of us liked to be during… Read More

Seattle officials visit New York with warnings about Amazon: ‘They thought they could bury us’

Two Seattle lawmakers traveled to New York to share war stories from their battles with Amazon to a group of… Read More

Here are the winners and (mostly) losers of Seattle tech stocks in 2018

Whew! Stocks were all over the place in 2018. Things were going well in late summer, but by fall the… Read More

Nirvana not smiling after filing lawsuit against designer Marc Jacobs over ‘Bootleg Grunge’ shirt

Just when you thought 25 years might be enough time for mainstream fashion designers to forget they ever tried to… Read More

Year in pictures: Amazon’s amazing growth, SpaceX blasts off, the passing of Paul Allen and more

2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing… Read More

How Fred Hutch spinout LabKey bootstrapped its way to compete in health care’s big data

Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get… Read More

Why Filld shut down mobile fueling in Seattle as it wrestles with fire marshals across the country

A few months after launching a pilot in Seattle, mobile fueling startup Filld hit a roadblock. On July 25, the… Read More

Indeed job search engine scoops up big new Seattle space, doubling presence with major office deal

Indeed, the online job search engine, has leased a huge new office space in a flashy new tower under construction… Read More

Opportunity Zones in West Coast tech hubs rank highest for gentrification risk in new study

When Congress enacted a powerful new tax incentive that encourages investors to funnel capital gains into economically distressed areas, community… Read More

Compass hiring 100 engineers for West Coast hub in Seattle, invading Zillow and Redfin’s turf

Compass, the high-tech brokerage based in New York, has chosen Seattle as the home for its West Coast engineering operations,… Read More

Robotics manufacturing firm Bright Machines expands to Seattle, hires senior Amazon engineering leader

San Francisco-based Bright Machines is coming to Seattle. The maker of software and robotics systems for manufacturing plans to open… Read More

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman sets his sights on Mount Kilimanjaro and $1M for cancer research

As a journalist, Luke Timmerman has covered biotech for more than 17 years. Now, the Timmerman Report founder is making… Read More

‘Celeste’ and ‘Into the Breach’ take home prizes amid a few surprises at the Game Awards 2018

The annual Game Awards presentation in Los Angeles on Thursday night included a few surprises, a lot of big announcements,… Read More

Tech tools to help you survive the ‘Seattle Squeeze’ when the viaduct comes down

Seattle’s legendary traffic is about to get worse. On Jan. 11, the Alaskan Way Viaduct — the elevated, waterfront portion… Read More

Seattle mayor moves to reduce tax burden on small businesses and startups

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed an executive order Friday in the hopes of removing burdens and barriers on the city’s… Read More

My parents are wowed by Amazon, LimeBikes and more as longtime visitors return to big, new Seattle

Getting together with family during the holidays — especially with members who visit from across the country — is a… Read More

Watch: As Seattle tunnel nears opening, 6-year time-lapse also captures Amazon going up, up up

If it appears, on many days, like Amazon’s Seattle headquarters has seemingly popped up overnight to transform the look of… Read More

Geek of the Week: From software developer to urban developer, Liz Dunn rethinks Seattle spaces

Liz Dunn started her career as a software developer at Microsoft two years after the company moved to Redmond, Wash.… Read More

Amazon has chosen its HQ2 city, and guess what, Seattle? It’s us

Amazon has spoken. The race is over. The winner (or some may argue loser) of Amazon’s much ballyhooed HQ2 search… Read More

Amazon announces HQ2 cities, splitting second headquarters as extraordinary contest concludes

ARLINGTON, Va. — After more than a year of reconnaissance, frenzied speculation, and non-stop media coverage, Amazon’s remarkable “HQ2” search… Read More

Company founded by U.S. Army vet develops cannabis-based products to help people struggling with pain

As the founder of G&G Laboratories, Mike Lui wants to help people who struggle with pain, such as veterans and… Read More

4 tech trends from the Seattle International Auto Show, and why self-driving cars aren’t one

This year, the Seattle International Auto Show will feature more than 700 cars, including many that are not available for… Read More

Why San Francisco’s big business tax for homeless relief succeeded after Seattle’s crumbled

Two tech hubs, two crises of homelessness, two taxes on big business, two very different outcomes. San Francisco voters on… Read More

Seattle mayor celebrates reports that Amazon may split HQ2: ‘I’d call those branch offices’

Amazon’s desire to see other cities — revealed by its search for a second headquarters home — hasn’t always cast… Read More

Facebook tops 3,000 Seattle-area employees as major hiring spree continues

Facebook’s dizzying growth all over the Seattle area continues unabated, and now the social media giant’s regional presence is up… Read More

‘Time is up at Google’: Tech giant’s Seattle workers join walkout to combat sexual misconduct policies

Hundreds of Google employees at the tech giant’s offices in Seattle walked off the job on Thursday as part of… Read More