Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 13, 2020

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 13, 2020.

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Bill Gates Sr., a respected lawyer, devoted civic leader, trusted mentor, and influential philanthropist who helped to shape Seattle’s tech industry even before his son co-founded Microsoft, died Monday of Alzheimer’s disease. … Read More

Snowflake came out with a bang in its public debut, raising $3.4 billion in the largest software IPO ever. … Read More

Facebook is yet again expanding in the Seattle region, its largest engineering hub outside of Silicon Valley. … Read More

Guest Commentary: Seattle, like much of the world today, is reeling. … Read More

While Elon Musk plans to keep on (electric) truckin’, don’t expect him to pick up a hitchhiking Bill Gates. … Read More

The U.S. Postal Service generated $1.6 billion in profit from Amazon in its 2019 fiscal year, on $3.9 billion in revenue from its business with the e-commerce giant. … Read More

Waking up Saturday morning, my window blinds glowed with a ghoulish yellow thanks to the blanket of wildfire smoke that was smothering Washington, Oregon and California. … Read More

Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in, scrubbed off algae and barnacles and assessed the findings of the unique underwater project. … Read More

The Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX, has become a major fan convention and games industry event since starting in the Seattle area in 2004, spawning sister events around the country and on the other side of the world. … Read More

For all the remembrances tied to the passing of Bill Gates Sr., who died Monday at age 94, perhaps no story is more surprising or entertaining than one told over the years by Howard Schultz, former chairman and CEO of Starbucks. … Read More

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 23, 2020

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 23, 2020.

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Zillow’s recent Urban Suburban Market Report opens by asking: Are people fleeing the cities for greener suburban pastures? … Read More

Salesforce is cutting jobs after reporting record earnings, creating “shocked disbelief” inside the company, one newly laid-off Seattle employee tells GeekWire. … Read More

With grudging assistance from a trio of pigs, Neuralink co-founder Elon Musk showed off the startup’s state-of-the-art neuron-reading brain implant and announced that the system has received the Food and Drug Administration’s preliminary blessing as an experimental medical device. … Read More

The pandemic is changing the way we think about work — not only where, but on what days. … Read More

Google continues to grow its Seattle-area footprint despite the ongoing pandemic. … Read More

Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, has been described as a natural business leader and the most important executive at the company over the past decade. … Read More

Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. … Read More

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the company prepares to go public. … Read More

Powell’s Books, the venerable independent bookstore in Portland, has had enough with Amazon and will no longer sell books through the tech giant’s marketplace. … Read More

Jeff Bezos crossed into new billionaire territory on Wednesday with another surge in Amazon stock that pushed the CEO’s net worth to more than $200 billion. … Read More

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 16, 2020

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 16, 2020.

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Amazon is adding three new members to the company’s senior leadership group, better known as the “S-team,” the executives who meet regularly with CEO Jeff Bezos and make key strategic decisions for the tech and e-commerce giant. … Read More

Amazon will spend $1.4 billion on nearly 1 million square feet of new physical office space in six U.S. … Read More

Amazon executive Jeff Wilke, long considered a leading candidate to succeed Jeff Bezos as CEO, is leaving the company. … Read More

Amazon isn’t just thinking about delivery with its drones. … Read More

President Donald Trump this morning again called on the U.S. … Read More

A new Seattle startup is gaining traction and investor attention for its business idea that rethinks the job candidate referral process. … Read More

A trio of veteran Seattle entrepreneurs just raised $1.3 million for Reflective, a new startup that helps companies automate repetitive workflows between different applications. … Read More

I had one of the more memorable sports moments of my life last night, rooting for my favorite team in the crowd at an NBA game — without leaving my apartment. … Read More

It was like two old pals getting together over beers Diet Cokes. … Read More

Shares of Rackspace climbed as much as 19% at one point this morning amid reports that Amazon is in talks for a potential investment in the cloud infrastructure and services company. … Read More

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 2, 2020

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 2, 2020.

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Bill Gates admitted he’s not the target audience for the popular social media app TikTok, but the Microsoft co-founder, weighing in on a potential acquisition by his former company, told Bloomberg Television that he believes in the tech giant when it comes to data security. … Read More

It’s 8:20 a.m. at the corner of Second Avenue and Union Street in downtown Seattle. … Read More

The aftermath of this week’s Beirut chemical explosion has been covered in triplicate by U.S. … Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold approximately $3 billion in stock in transactions starting on Monday, according to regulatory filings made public Wednesday. … Read More

People are spending way more time at home during the pandemic. … Read More

— Microsoft is bringing more of its Windows team under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay as part of another reorganization this year. … Read More

Zillow Group flew by analyst expectations for its second quarter revenue as the Seattle real estate giant voiced confidence in the housing market and posted record traffic numbers amid the pandemic. … Read More

Jeff Bezos may work some sort of magic every day — or at least his company does — by getting zillions of packages here and there with the click of a  button or two. … Read More

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday blocking all transactions with ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok, in 45 days. … Read More

Microsoft is considering buying a bigger chunk of fast-growing social media giant TikTok. … Read More

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 19, 2020

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 19, 2020.

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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Washington state rose 71% over the past week, reaching a new weekly high of more than 6,800 reported cases, according to GeekWire’s calculations from state Department of Health data. … Read More

Washington is tightening restrictions on gatherings and businesses as coronavirus cases surge across the state. … Read More

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates addressed various coronavirus-related topics in a 30-minute interview with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell that aired Wednesday. … Read More

Mukund Mohan, a Seattle-area tech executive who spent time at Amazon and Microsoft, has been charged by federal prosecutors with seeking over $5.5 million in loans through the U.S. … Read More

A combination of record-low mortgage rates, remote work policies, and other factors are driving homeowners in cities such as Seattle and San Francisco to look elsewhere for a new place to live. … Read More

One can take a reductionist view of career success as a series of lucky breaks or the result of relentless hard work. … Read More

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is laying off 6% of its employee base as fewer companies use its platform due to a reduced need for hiring amid the pandemic. … Read More

Seattle’s professional hockey team finally has a name — and it’s time to get Kraken. … Read More

The seemingly unstoppable trend of tech companies and talent concentrating in a few cities hit a brick wall in March. … Read More

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. … Read More

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