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Rover dips a paw into Latin America, backing Brazilian pet care startup DogHero in $7M round

Rover, the Seattle-based pet-sitting marketplace, is jumping into Latin America for the first time, investing in a leading pet startup.… Read More

Smartsheet market value tops $4.5 billion as shares spike 10% after earnings report

Shares of work collaboration software maker Smartsheet were up more than 11 percent in after-hours trading following its fourth fiscal… Read More

WeWork footprint hits 1.7M square feet in Seattle as co-working giant continues torrid growth in 2019

The largest office space occupiers in the Seattle area include Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, and now, WeWork. The co-working giant continues… Read More

Washington ranks second in the nation in new report analyzing the most innovative states

Washington state ranks second in the country when it comes to states contributing the most to the nation’s position of… Read More

Language-learning startup Duolingo looks to grow Seattle-area office in 2019

Duolingo, the language-learning startup headquartered in Pittsburgh, has operated a small outpost near Seattle in Bellevue, Wash., since last summer… Read More

Amazon should pick up on this robot featuring an origami-inspired gripper with a special touch

It can sometimes be tough to grasp just how quickly advances are happening in robotics, whether it’s taking place on… Read More

Can a robot spice up the retail banking experience? HSBC’s ‘Pepper’ is now on the job at Seattle branch

Bank customers who have already embraced technology as a way of handling their transaction needs could be lured offline and… Read More

Niantic gives 1st look at its new Pokémon Go-esque Harry Potter augmented reality game

Niantic has been quiet about the follow up to its smash hit Pokémon Go, but today the company pulled back… Read More

Seattle startup battles Facebook over ads promoting women’s health products, CEO claims gender bias

Seattle women’s health startups such as Pulse and Genneve are fed up with Facebook after the social media giant prevented… Read More

Melinda Gates launches new online platform to highlight inspiring stories, innovative thinkers

Melinda Gates this week launched Evoke, a new website that bills itself as a “community of optimistis” and aims to… Read More

AI2 gives birth to WellSaid, a startup that synthesizes amazingly realistic voices

We’ve got Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant — so do we really need more synthesized voices… Read More

NYT editor on the state of journalism: Technology is ‘leaving us with the stuff that pisses people off’

It may feel like animosity toward the media is at an all-time high, but the head of The New York… Read More

Huawei expected to sue U.S. government in response to ban on federal agencies using its products

Huawei is reportedly preparing to sue the U.S. government, challenging a ban on federal agencies using the Chinese telecommunications giant’s… Read More

Code.org’s Hadi Partovi and Microsoft’s Bonnie Ross put focus on tech’s gender gap on 60 Minutes

The push to get more girls and women interested in computer science has been the talk of tech for years.… Read More

Key trends in information security: Forecasting the top 4 RSA Conference themes for 2019

Next week, one of the biggest security conferences in the world, RSA, kicks off at the Moscone Convention Center in… Read More

Report: Amazon to open new grocery stores with dozens of locations, separate from Whole Foods

Amazon’s brick-and-mortar grocery ambitions don’t stop with Whole Foods and Amazon Go. The company plans to launch dozens of grocery… Read More

Beyond ‘Zucked,’ what concerns author Roger McNamee most about our future in tech

Roger McNamee is a veteran investor in Silicon Valley, and one of the earliest people to invest in Facebook, even… Read More

Funko stock soars as pop culture toy maker crushes Wall Street expectations to cap rebound year

Funko capped off a strong year, rebounding from a tough start to life as a public company in late 2017,… Read More

Healionics lands $3.8M for artificial blood vessel to improve dialysis delivery

Seattle-based medical technology company Healionics raised $3.8 million to support the development of an artificial blood vessel called STARgraft for patients… Read More

Huawei pleads not guilty to federal charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile, trial set for 2020

Huawei pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile in the first hearing of a federal case… Read More

Univ. of Washington opens new computer science building, doubling capacity to train future tech workers

When Ed Lazowska arrived at the University of Washington four decades ago, there were just 12 computer science faculty members.… Read More

Funko goes Hollywood: Pop! figurine maker to open Los Angeles store, its 2nd overall

Later this year, Funko, the Everett, Wash. maker of pop culture collectables will open its second-ever retail store in Los… Read More

OneWeb’s first satellites are launched into orbit for global internet constellation

A Russian-built, European-launched Soyuz rocket sent the first six satellites of OneWeb’s broadband data constellation into orbit today, kicking off… Read More

Bill Gates lists 10 breakthrough technologies that address ‘important challenges’ of our time

In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates… Read More

Is Bill Gates a happy billionaire? Should he pay more in taxes? He has the answers in Reddit AMA

Bill Gates is perfectly happy as a billionaire, but he admitted again Monday that he believes he should have to… Read More

Amazon-backed smart glasses maker North laying off 150 employees

The same week North rolled into Seattle to show off its Focals smart glasses, the company cut a substantial portion… Read More

Warburg Pincus sells 4.7M shares of tax automation company Avalara worth around $230M

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus sold 4.7 million shares of Seattle-based sales tax automation company Avalara this week, according to… Read More

Zillow Group execs take lessons from Amazon and Netflix as online real estate giant shifts direction

Zillow Group’s new CEO Rich Barton is back in the driver’s seat because of his self-professed affinity for “big swings,”… Read More

Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff steps down as co-founder Rich Barton takes over at online real estate giant

Rich Barton is back in the CEO seat at Zillow Group, taking over at the online real estate giant he… Read More

‘Zillow 2.0:’ Real estate giant embarks on fundamental shift, projecting home sales operation will become a $20B business

RELATED: Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff steps down as co-founder Rich Barton takes over at online real estate giant Zillow Group… Read More