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Report ranks Seattle No. 2 in overall ‘Tech Talent’ even as hiring slows across industry

The Seattle area is the second-ranked market overall for tech talent in North America, trailing only the San Francisco Bay… Read More

Impinj awarded $18.5M in damages in patent lawsuit against Dutch semiconductor giant NXP

A federal jury in California on Friday decided in favor of Seattle-based RFID-maker Impinj in a suit alleging Dutch semiconductor… Read More

FTC will appeal court ruling that paved way for Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will appeal a court order from earlier this week that allowed Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition… Read More

New round of Microsoft job cuts hits customer service, support, and sales teams

Microsoft announced a new round of job cuts internally Monday morning, impacting an unknown number of employees in customer service,… Read More

Seattle-area office market ‘continues to struggle’ with rising vacancies and hybrid work policies

Seattle-area office vacancy rates have more than doubled from pre-pandemic levels, reflecting the ongoing impact of macroeconomic uncertainty and work-from-home… Read More

OceanGate suspends all exploration and commercial operations

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says it has suspended exploration and commercial operations following the loss of the company’s Titan submersible and… Read More

University of Washington researchers develop smaller, cheaper form of LiDAR technology

Devices that move and operate in physical space need sensors to read their environment. One such sensing technology, LiDAR, has… Read More

Book excerpt: The monopoly power of Big Tech, and what Congress can do to correct it

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Winner Takes All: Case Studies in How Online Marketplaces Are Creating Modern Monopolies,… Read More

NLM Photonics' Kevin O'Malley at probe station

NLM Photonics raises $1M from Japanese ventures to boost electro-optic technology

Seattle-based NLM Photonics says it has raised $1 million in new funding to advance commercialization of its hybrid electro-optic modulation… Read More

OceanGate's Titan submersible

OceanGate submersible and crew declared lost after discovery of debris near Titanic

After days of searching, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that the OceanGate submersible that went missing during a dive to… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon scrutinized by regulators, legislators, and rivals in a flurry of cases

There has been a spike in activity in the realm of regulatory and legislative oversight of Microsoft and Amazon this… Read More

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IonQ moves ahead with Forte quantum computers and its facility in Seattle area

Maryland-based IonQ is expanding the commercial availability of its next-generation Forte quantum computer — and ramping up its research and… Read More

Apple machine learning leader Ali Farhadi named CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Ali Farhadi, a computer vision specialist and startup founder who most recently led Apple’s machine learning initiatives, will rejoin the… Read More

More layoffs at Zulily: E-commerce company trims headcount after private equity acquisition

Zulily is laying off workers again. Several employees of the Seattle-based e-commerce retailer were let go from the company this… Read More

Washington state AG says T-Mobile is wrongly withholding documents in security probe

Updated below with T-Mobile statement. A new court petition alleges that T-Mobile is refusing to fully comply with investigative demands… Read More

Bill Gates reportedly meeting with Xi Jinping on China trip

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of his trip to China, according to… Read More

Novartis to buy Seattle biotech firm Chinook Therapeutics in $3.2B deal

Swiss biopharma giant Novartis announced Monday it plans to buy Seattle-based Chinook Therapeutics for $3.2 billion, marking another blockbuster acquisition… Read More

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Security firm sues Microsoft, alleging tech giant misused trove of stolen logins and passwords

[Update, Dec. 8, 2023: A federal judge in Seattle granted Microsoft’s motion to dismiss this suit by Hold Security LLC,… Read More

Salesforce stops reporting individual revenue figures for Slack and Tableau

Salesforce said it would no longer divulge the individual revenue numbers of acquired companies including Slack and Tableau in its… Read More

Zulily enters another era as Qurate sells Seattle e-commerce retailer to investment firm

Ownership of Seattle e-commerce retail company Zulily is changing hands again. Qurate, which paid $2.4 billion to acquire Zulily in… Read More

Salesforce puts Tableau headquarters building in Seattle up for sublease

Salesforce confirmed Friday that it will list Tableau Software’s headquarters building in Seattle on the sublease market. Tableau, acquired by… Read More

How T-Mobile plans to use AI to improve one of its most important business metrics

T-Mobile sees opportunity in artificial intelligence to analyze why customers leave the company, attempting to retain more of them and… Read More

‘Get back in there’: T-Mobile CEO exhorts tech industry leaders to return to the office

The Seattle area’s corporate leaders and their veteran employees need to get back to the office regularly for the sake… Read More

Gates Foundation launches AI ‘Grand Challenge,’ as it weighs risk and reward in the developing world

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering up to $100,000 each to projects that test new ways of using… Read More

GeekWire Awards FAQ: Meet the finalists, and what to know if you’re coming to the big show

The much-anticipated GeekWire Awards takes place tonight, May 18, in Seattle, at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle. Read the FAQ… Read More

Sam Altman calls for ‘incredible scrutiny’ of major AI companies, including OpenAI and Microsoft

OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft, and the implications of the tech giant’s stake in the artificial intelligence powerhouse, were raised as… Read More

Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet four inspiring organizations using tech for good

The Pacific Northwest is home to countless people applying technology to good causes and working to improve the sector, our… Read More

Stratolaunch TA-0 release in mid-flight

We have separation: Stratolaunch reaches milestone with release of test payload

California-based Stratolaunch, the venture created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, released a separation test vehicle for the first… Read More

Pallavi Dhagat in OSU lab

Pacific Northwest teams win federal funding for semiconductors, energy tech and more

Four Pacific Northwest public-private partnerships have won support from the National Science Foundation through a $43 million nationwide program to… Read More

Allen Institute for AI creating an open generative AI language model ‘by scientists, for scientists’

You can’t read the news today without seeing a story about the latest advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in the… Read More

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