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GeekWire Awards: How these five Workplace of the Year finalists navigate challenging times

The five finalists for Workplace of the Year at the GeekWire Awards rely on a number of policies to help… Read More

3 years after Sprint merger, T-Mobile employs 9k fewer people, insists it upheld pledge on jobs

John Legere was adamant, bordering on indignant. “This merger is all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the New… Read More

Judge tosses most of the claims in Amazon’s suit against former AWS real estate managers

A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims in a long-running lawsuit brought by Amazon against two of its… Read More

The latest 007 saga has a space billionaire, quantum computers — but no James Bond

Imagine a James Bond story with quantum computers, brain-computer interfaces, a cloud-shifting climate control system and a billionaire who owns… Read More

Vote for Deal of the Year: Affini-T Therapeutics, Bungie, Copper, First Mode, MotherDuck

The finalists for Deal of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards all struck big transactions to help fuel their… Read More

University of Washington professors on using ChatGPT in the classroom

AI-powered chatbots are already changing how professors teach, said University of Washington educators during a panel discussion Wednesday. “Our role… Read More

Seattle-area office market ‘clearly struggling’ and ‘highly volatile’

Tech layoffs and hiring freezes continue to impact the commercial real estate market in and around Seattle, according to a… Read More

Crypto exchange Bittrex shutters U.S. operations, blames regulatory environment

Bellevue, Wash.-based crypto exchange Bittrex announced Friday it was “winding down” its U.S. operations. A post from Bittrex co-founder and… Read More

Filing: Blue Nile laying off workers and shutting down Seattle fulfillment center

Online jewelry retailer Blue Nile is shutting down a fulfillment center in Seattle and laying off 119 workers, according to… Read More

Illustration: Zeva's Argon VTOL aircraft in flight

Zeva Aero pivots from its flying saucer to an airplane with a vertical-takeoff twist

Zeva Aero, the Tacoma, Wash.-based personal aviation startup that’s been testing flying saucers, is shifting its focus to a more… Read More

Expedia Group lays off workers as part of ‘strategic actions’

Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group made an undisclosed number of layoffs. The company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire. “We are… Read More

Howard Schultz steps aside as Starbucks interim CEO as Laxman Narasimhan takes over

Howard Schultz has stepped down as interim CEO of Starbucks, handing the reins to incoming CEO Laxman Narasimhan a couple… Read More

Leafly lays off 21% of workforce amid potential delisting from Nasdaq

Editor’s note: This story was updated with information from Leafly’s fourth quarter earnings report and an internal email sent from… Read More

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years leading Amazon-owned streaming giant

Twitch co-founder and CEO Emmett Shear is resigning, 16 years after he helped launch the game streaming platform owned by… Read More

Zillow CEO Rich Barton on leading companies through an economic storm

It’s rocky times in the tech world. Valuations are shrinking. Layoffs are spreading. And the primary lender to the startup… Read More

T-Mobile to acquire Mint Mobile for $1.35B and tap into owner Ryan Reynolds’ marketing skills

Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Ka’ena Corp., owner of the brands Mint Mobile and… Read More

Commentary: OpenAI’s GPT-4 has some limitations that are fixable — and some that are not

Editor’s note: Four months after the release of its ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI unveiled its latest artificial intelligence technology, GPT-4, on… Read More

Qualtrics to go private in $12.5 billion deal with Silver Lake

Experience management company Qualtrics will become a private company again. Silver Lake plans to buy the company in a $12.5… Read More

Investor on SVB collapse: ‘A crisis of confidence isn’t necessarily a crisis of fundamentals’

Editor’s note: GeekWire reached out to Will Canestaro, managing director of Washington Research Foundation and WRF Capital, on Friday to… Read More

Lessons from WaMu: Historic financial failure offers clues to what’s next for Silicon Valley Bank

The government takeover and subsequent acquisition of Washington Mutual in 2008 could serve as a potential blueprint for the future… Read More

‘It’s war. It’s real. Real people die.’ Tech company grapples with loss of colleague in Ukraine

Software engineering company Akvelon, based in Bellevue, Wash., is mourning the loss of a colleague who was killed while serving in… Read More

Zulily lays off employees for the second time in a year amid revenue declines

Zulily laid off an undisclosed amount of corporate employees as the Seattle-based online retailer and its parent company Qurate navigate… Read More

Filings: Microsoft job cuts in Seattle area reach 2,184 people, as part of 10,000 layoffs globally

Microsoft gave layoff notices to another 689 people at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters and nearby cities, according to a filing… Read More

The Riveter adds new exec with acquisition of freelance work marketplace platform

The Riveter has a taken on another champion for working women with the acquisition of a marketplace platform originally geared… Read More

Rover unleashes new pet gear — including a patent-pending dog poop carrier

Seattle-based company Rover is expanding beyond its pet sitting marketplace with a new line of consumer products. The initial Rover… Read More

Salesforce stock spikes 14% after beating Q4 estimates; Tableau revenue grows 6% to $636M

Salesforce stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading Wednesday as the company beat expectations for its fiscal fourth… Read More

Book excerpt: Ex-Google manager’s ‘cautionary tale’ details alleged pregnancy discrimination

Editor’s note: Chelsey Glasson is a researcher and writer who spent the past two decades working in the public policy… Read More

Visualization of electric field energy density for metamaterial waveguide

Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

Today’s news from the frontier of quantum computing includes Amazon Web Services’ release of cloud-based simulation software for modeling the… Read More

Redfin and Zillow Group financial reports reveal broader housing market trends

The latest financial reports from Zillow Group and Redfin demonstrate ongoing wariness within the U.S. real estate market. Both companies… Read More

Redfin Q4 revenue drops 25% to $479M as company winds down home-flipping business

Redfin’s revenue fell 25% in the fourth quarter amid a housing market slowdown that has hampered its growth over the… Read More