Articles about Seattle – Page 19 of 51

Loftium will help you buy a house if you agree to Airbnb a bedroom and split the profits

Laura Coe never expected to buy a house before she was 30. The 29-year-old Microsoft finance manager has been renting… Read More

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell directs city to bid on Amazon HQ2, says he won’t remain in role

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has signed an executive order directing Seattle’s economic development officials to respond to Amazon’s request for… Read More

Seattle isn’t likely to submit a proposal for Amazon’s second headquarters, even as a symbolic gesture

Seattle has gone through the full spectrum of emotion in the wake of Amazon’s surprise announcement that it will open a… Read More

Seattle sets a new standard for private companies to launch public services, and other cities take note

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) got the green light to launch a pilot bike-share program in May of 2017.… Read More

Seattle plans to tax Airbnb operators $10/night and limit short-term rentals to 2 properties per host

The Seattle City Council has released a new set of regulations designed to prevent property owners from operating Airbnbs and… Read More

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns amid new allegations of child sexual abuse

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday, hours after The Seattle Times published an interview in which his cousin,… Read More

Guest Post: Former Amazon employee on how two HQ locations would be company’s ultimate A/B test

I moved to Seattle in September, 1997, to an apartment with a view of the Acacia Cemetery on Lake City… Read More

Kodak, Amazon and my hometowns: Rochester, N.Y., looks to Seattle to recapture its past glory

My dad likes to send me, as dads do, links to articles from the hometown newspaper back in Rochester, N.Y.… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: The message Amazon’s HQ2 sends Seattle, and where the tech giant could go next

Amazon surprised everyone Thursday morning when it announced it is looking to build a second headquarters in a city in North… Read More

‘It’s never too late to say we’re sorry’: Seattle leaders respond to Amazon plans to establish second HQ outside its hometown

Amazon announced plans early Thursday morning to open a second headquarters “fully equal” to its Seattle home, calling on local… Read More

Amazon to build second HQ in North America, seeks proposals from cities for $5B campus with up to 50K jobs, ‘full equal’ to Seattle operations

Amazon plans to build a second headquarters in a North American city to be determined, saying the new $5 billion… Read More

Seattle among top U.S. cities for sellers to get greatest return on investment — $185K in 2016

The problem for homeowners who decide to sell in a hot real estate market like Seattle, is that it turns… Read More

Uber offers discounts to commuters traveling by light rail in Seattle area

Uber, Sound Transit, and Seattle-area cities are partnering to encourage more commuters to use Link light rail in conjunction with… Read More

Seattle investor questions city plan to spend up to $250K defending income tax on the rich

Matt McIlwain believes Seattle is wasting resources defending an income tax ordinance passed by the City Council in July. The… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Customer-focused telecom software company Audian boasts big growth

Early in his career as an IT executive, Brandon Bazemore encountered a problem many business leaders face. He wasn’t satisfied… Read More

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray joins the call for removal of Lenin statue, citing ‘violent atrocities’

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has joined a chorus of voices in his city and online calling for a statue of… Read More

More bikes?! How the latest entrants in Seattle’s crowded bike-share market plan to compete

Seattle has been inundated by thousands of neon bicycles since Spin and LimeBike launched in late July — and it’s… Read More

Trump supporters converge on Seattle’s Lenin statue, shout ‘tear it down’ and debate passersby

A handful of self-described supporters of President Donald Trump converged on Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday to call for the removal… Read More

Less than 6 months after launch, The Riveter to open 2nd co-working space for women in Seattle

Since The Riveter opened its doors in March in Seattle, the female-focused co-working space has hosted Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg,… Read More

Time to pull down Seattle’s Lenin statue? Silicon Valley venture capitalist takes on relic’s place in wake of Charlottesville tragedy

Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood has long been considered one of the city’s more eccentric areas — home to artists and hippies… Read More

How canned fish convinced RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser to ignore conventional wisdom and invest in a new Seattle restaurant

Rob Glaser is well aware that restaurants make for risky investments. “There’s two arguments,” he told GeekWire. “One, they have… Read More

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