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Tech Moves: VMware exec joins Darktrace; Zillow hires Twitter marketing leader; Oregon Venture Fund adds partner

— Seattle-area tech executive Denise Walter was appointed chief revenue officer at cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Walter will join the company… Read More

Zillow, Redfin, and the real estate market: 5 trends to watch in 2023

The once high-flying real estate market sputtered in 2022, dragging many real estate tech companies down with it. The sudden… Read More

Zillow Group beats Q3 expectations but cautions that real estate outlook remains ‘challenged’

Zillow Group beat its third quarter earnings expectations amid a slowdown in the overall housing market and rising interest rates… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Zillow VP joins Discord; Bigleaf Networks names CEO

— Annie Rihn, former vice president of recruiting at Zillow Group, is now vice president of talent acquisition at Discord. Rihn… Read More

As tech giants increase stock compensation to retain talent, can startups take advantage?

Large tech companies including Zillow Group and Amazon are turning up the dial on stock compensation in a bid to… Read More

After ditching home-buying business, Zillow Group partners with rival Opendoor

Zillow Group still wants to help people quickly sell their home. The Seattle real estate giant announced a partnership with… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Zillow VP Annie Rihn departs after 17 years; AWS VP jumps to Google; Remitly names CFO; UiPath exec joins new VC firm

— Annie Rihn, one of the earliest employees at Zillow Group who led recruiting, has left the Seattle real estate… Read More

Jonathan Burstein, 1976-2022: Engineer, investor and entrepreneur was a natural problem-solver

Jonathan Burstein, who co-founded voice technology startup Jargon and made a lasting impact at Seattle-area tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon,… Read More

Q&A with Seattle’s new economic development chief on working with the tech industry

In February, Markham McIntyre agreed to leave his job as the vice president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to… Read More

Tech Moves: USAFacts picks Microsoft and Amazon vet as CTO; Zillow CMO departs; and more

— Tanuja Korlepra, a former Amazon and Microsoft product management leader, has been named chief technology officer of USAFacts, the… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow VP joins OpenSea; Panopto hires Microsoft manager; product vet joins Binance

— Loni Mahanta, formerly vice president of government relations & public policy for Zillow Group, joined NFT marketplace OpenSea in… Read More

Zillow shares up 16% as real estate giant reveals ‘housing super app’ strategy amid iBuying closure

Zillow Group may be ducking out of the home-buying business. But now it has a new plan to make more… Read More

Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise

Now that the dust has settled, we can ask how could the smart and savvy team at Zillow Group, armed… Read More

Zillow layoffs continue ahead of first earnings report since iBuying shutdown decision

Zillow Group continues to cut staff as part of the company’s decision to end its home buying business. The Seattle… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow hires Nike exec as first design chief; Allen Institute has new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. She was most recently… Read More

Podcast

Top Stories of ’21: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, COVID, and what’s next for tech in Seattle and beyond

Looking at GeekWire’s most-read stories for 2021, this series of headlines stands out as a symbol of the past year,… Read More

Trulia to drop neighborhood crime data from home listings, after Redfin speaks out against practice

Trulia, one of Seattle-based Zillow Group’s real estate brands, says it will phase out the use of neighborhood crime data… Read More

Zillow says it’s making good progress on home sales as it exits house-flipping business, announces $750M stock repurchase

Zillow Group says it is making good progress unloading homes it owns, announcing today that it has sold or is… Read More

Lawsuit claims Zillow misled investors about state of home-buying business before shutdown

A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Seattle-based Zillow Group concealed problems in its home-buying business from shareholders before abruptly… Read More

Podcast

When algorithms go bad: Zillow, Amazon, Facebook and the pitfalls of rampant automation

The downfall of Zillow’s iBuying business is a reminder of the downsides of relying too much on automation and machine… Read More

Zillow to lay off 47 workers in Washington state as part of Zillow Offers home buying shutdown

Zillow Group plans to lay off 47 workers in Washington state as part of the 2,000 company employees who will… Read More

Redfin CEO explains how its iBuyer home buying program avoided pitfalls that sunk Zillow Group

Zillow Group’s surprising decision this week to back out of iBuying raised questions about the overall viability of the tech-fueled… Read More

The risk-taking mentality of Zillow’s Rich Barton: ‘It takes just as much energy to swing for the fences as it does to bunt’

Editor’s note: This is a column written by GeekWire co-founder John Cook. “Why bunt?” That was the rhetorical question Zillow… Read More

Zillow shares tumble after iBuying fumble: Stock plummets 22%, but not all say the sky is falling

Zillow Group co-founder and CEO Rich Barton admitted on Tuesday that it was a “tough day” when the powerhouse real… Read More

Why the iBuying algorithms failed Zillow, and what it says about the business world’s love affair with AI

Just because a business process can be automated, doesn’t necessarily mean it should be automated. And maybe — just maybe… Read More

Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters

Zillow Group’s ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end.… Read More

Zillow stock dives ahead of earnings; analyst report says 66% of homes it bought are now ‘underwater’

A day ahead of its third quarter earnings report, Zillow Group’s stock took a hit on Wall Street as a… Read More

Analyst says Zillow’s pause on homebuying ‘leaves many unanswered questions,’ lowers stock outlook

Analysts with Wedbush slashed their 12-month price target for Zillow Group by more than 40% following the company’s decision to… Read More

Zillow Group stock falls 10% after company says it will stop buying additional homes this year

Zillow Group announced Monday that it will not sign any new contracts to buy homes via its home-buying and selling… Read More

The future of work: HR leaders from Zillow, Expedia on the pandemic-driven changes to the workplace

The future of how we work, where we work, how that work is measured and even how we get to… Read More

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