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What Amazon’s big pay increase says about the company and the broader tech industry in 2022

Amazon’s decision to more than double its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees is getting lots… Read More

‘We don’t have to do this again.’ Bill Gates previews new book about preventing the next pandemic

An upcoming book from Bill Gates will delve into lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, what the world can do… Read More

‘This is huge for us’: Interview with Leafly CEO as cannabis company goes public in SPAC merger

Leafly arrived on the public markets Monday, setting a milestone for not only the Seattle company but the cannabis industry… Read More

Change in Melinda French Gates’ giving plan signals aspirations beyond Gates Foundation

A reported change in Melinda French Gates’ pledge to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens the door for the… Read More

Rover inks deal with Petco as shares of pet sitting company continue falling

Petco and Rover are expanding their partnership with a new initiative that will surface Rover’s pet-sitting services on Petco.com. Petco… 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

Book Excerpt: Seattle’s ‘Motown of tech’ changed Sherrell Dorsey’s life — now she’s passing it along

Editor’s Note: Seattle native Sherrell Dorsey is a data journalist, entrepreneur and founder and CEO of The Plug, a venture-backed… Read More

Will hybrid and remote work tank Seattle’s once red-hot office market? Not so fast, studies say

Fewer people working in the office, less need for office space? That seems like a logical conclusion to draw. But… Read More

MyShake app now available in Washington state to provide warning before earthquake shaking starts

Washington state residents have another way to be alerted to an earthquake and potential shaking with the arrival of the… Read More

Late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan spins off VC group with new name, broader investor base

Vulcan Capital, the venture capital group founded in 2003 as an internal division of Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. holding… Read More

University of Washington joins $40M campaign to enlist more software engineers for research

The University of Washington and three other universities have kicked off an effort to beef up the software engineering resources… Read More

Toymaker Funko to close Washington state warehouses and move distribution jobs to Arizona

Everett, Wash.-based Funko, makers of pop culture collectibles, is closing warehouse locations in the city north of Seattle and consolidating… Read More

AI2 releases demo of question-answering model it claims outperforms GPT-3

From the beginning of the digital age, we’ve looked to our computers for answers. Nowhere is this so evident as… Read More

Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

See disclosures at bottom of story. Nearly 13 years after New York-based Hearst Corp. made the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the country’s… Read More

Seattle region is No. 1 in U.S. in ranking of best cities for STEM jobs

The Seattle region topped 100 U.S. metro areas in a new ranking of the best and worst places for professionals… Read More

How global supply chain woes may be an opportunity for Seattle shipping-tech companies

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the global supply chain has choked and sputtered, causing shortages of everything from computer chips… Read More

Analysis: Microsoft’s massive $68.7B acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a mixed bag for gamers

Last year, I joked that the problem Microsoft presents for video game analysts is that it could, at any time,… Read More

Expedia returns to Super Bowl advertising in sign of optimism for COVID-weary travelers

Expedia Group is coming back to the Super Bowl, offering hope to those who yearn to be back on the… Read More

Featured artists at Seattle’s new NFT Museum that opens this weekend chat about the emerging tech

Non-fungible token (NFT) sales have skyrocketed over the past year, going from $94.9 million in 2020 to $24.9 billion in… Read More

Tech recruiters say Bellevue is finding its inner cool among new workers, thanks in part to Seattle

Shawna Swerland remembers the days when recruiting high-end technology talent to Bellevue was tough. The city just 12 miles east… Read More

‘Wave’ of change for a Seattle-born brand: Astound comes back around in latest telecom naming twist

The nation’s sixth-largest cable company said Wednesday that it will unify its regional brands under the name Astound Broadband. Astound… Read More

Redfin will buy Bay Equity Home Loans for $135M in bid to boost mortgage business

Seattle real estate giant Redfin announced that it will pay an estimated $135 million in cash and stock to purchase… Read More

T-Mobile acquires Octopus Interactive, an ad network for screens inside Uber and Lyft cars

T-Mobile has swooped up Octopus Interactive, a Bethesda, Md.-based startup that runs an ad network for video screens inside Uber… Read More

Q&A with Kelly Smith, startup founder and ex-Starbucks VP leading digital transformation at car company Hagerty

Kelly Smith knows a thing or two about digital transformation. Before the phrase fully entered the business world lexicon, Smith… Read More

Biotech in 2022: Industry leaders and investors on trends and challenges to watch

It’s been a remarkable few years for biotech, in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The optimism that emerged with the… Read More

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Seattle cloud services provider 2nd Watch acquires analytics consulting firm Aptitive

Seattle cloud services company 2nd Watch announced the acquisition of Aptitive, a Chicago-based data and analytics consulting firm. Aptitive’s 50 employees… Read More

UW computer science school denounces retired professor’s tweet on women hires

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with comments from Pedro Domingos and additional information. The University of Washington’s Paul… Read More

Seattle venture capitalist dies in Oregon ski accident

Birkan Uzun, a former software engineer at Amazon who joined Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group last year and was on a… Read More

Megadeals, metaverse, and outer space: Test your tech knowledge with GeekWire’s 2021 news quiz

This year was a bit of a blur, fighting through waves of Delta and Omicron. But there was other important… Read More