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Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team (www.geekwire.com)
14 days ago

Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-2-27

Techstars is shutting down its Seattle program, which was started in 2010, to shift focus on “hubs with the highest concentration of VC activity” (www.geekwire.com)
2024-2-22 Seattle

Expedia says CEO Peter Kern will step down after four years in the role and names its president for business, Ariane Gorin, as CEO, effective May 13, 2024 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-2-9

A Microsoft engineer tells WA's AG he found ways to exploit DALL-E 3 to make explicit images, reported it, but was then told to take down a public post about it (www.geekwire.com)
2024-1-31 Microsoft

Bellevue, WA-based Oleria, which helps companies manage employee access to applications and data, raised a $33.1M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners (www.geekwire.com)
2024-1-19 Equity

Cybersecurity company ExtraHop raises $100M in new funding from existing investors and says it ended 2023 with ~$200M ARR, double what it reported in 2021 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-1-10

Seattle-based Rhythms, which plans to use AI to analyze companies' patterns, such as monthly reviews and weekly meetings, comes out of stealth with a $26M seed (www.geekwire.com)
2023-12-9 AI Seattle

A look at OpenAI's complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI's origins as a non-profit organization (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-19 Microsoft

Internal memo: Amazon plans to cut several hundred roles in its Alexa division as part of a broader shift in priorities and a focus on generative AI (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-18 Amazon AI

Amazon is merging the Comixology app with Kindle on December 4, and all comics that users own via Comixology will be integrated into their Kindle libraries (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-16 Amazon

Chainguard, which helps companies secure their open-source software supply chain, raised a $61M Series B led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $116M (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-2

Magnitude 4.3 earthquake hits near Seattle; tsunami not expected (www.geekwire.com)
2023-10-9 Seattle

Memo: Qualtrics plans to cut ~14% of its workforce, or 780 employees, citing a need to address the “complexity” created by its past “rapid hiring” and growth (www.geekwire.com)
2023-10-9

‘Forever chemicals' are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup (www.geekwire.com)
2023-10-9

Washington-based Treasury4, which sells data analytics software for risk management of financial and treasury processes, raised a $20M Series A led by WestCap (www.geekwire.com)
2023-9-13

Amazon announces the Buy with Prime app for Shopify, which will let US-based Shopify merchants natively integrate Amazon's program into their Shopify stores (www.geekwire.com)
2023-8-31 Amazon Shopify

University of Washington researchers develop smaller, cheaper form of LiDAR technology (www.geekwire.com)
2023-7-7

Seattle-based DexCare, whose tools help health systems manage capacity and patient appointments, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $146M (www.geekwire.com)
2023-6-22 Seattle

Amazon plans to hold Prime Day on July 11 and July 12 and introduce an invite-only Prime Days deals program; an Indian version will be held “later this summer” (www.geekwire.com)
2023-6-21 India Amazon

Apple machine learning leader Ali Farhadi, who sold Xnor.ai to Apple for ~$200M in 2020, departs to become the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence's CEO (www.geekwire.com)
2023-6-21 AI Apple Machine Learning Intelligence

Amazon announces Amazon Anywhere to let users of third-party apps buy related real-world items while in the app, launching with Niantic's new AR game Peridot (www.geekwire.com)
2023-5-10 Amazon AR

Seattle-based Fixie, which aims to help developers integrate LLMs into their own applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures (www.geekwire.com)
2023-3-31 Seattle

Seattle picks 31 sites for new EV charging stations (www.geekwire.com)
2023-3-27 Seattle

Cannabis tech company Leafly lays off 21% of workforce amid potential delisting from Nasdaq (www.geekwire.com)
2023-3-18

Lessons from WaMu: Historic financial failure offers clues to what's next for Silicon Valley Bank (www.geekwire.com)
2023-3-13

Amazon's Ring names former Meta and Microsoft executive Elizabeth Hamren as its CEO, replacing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who will remain as chief inventor (www.geekwire.com)
2023-3-6 Amazon Microsoft

Amazon closing eight Amazon Go convenience stores in latest tightening of its physical retail (www.geekwire.com)
2023-3-6 Amazon Retail

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox (www.geekwire.com)
2023-2-21 Microsoft Nintendo Xbox

Amazon asks corporate staff to be back in the office at least three days per week, starting May 1, after previously leaving the decisions to team leaders (www.geekwire.com)
2023-2-18 Amazon

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