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Tech Moves: Suzi LeVine leading Wash state workforce education Diversity specialist joins uniquelyHR and more

Amazon invests in homebuilding startup continues foray into the smart home

UW spinout AnswerDash a contextual QA service for customer support acquired by CloudEngage

Suplari raises 103M reveals AI platform that identifies cost savings in procurement process

Alaska Airlines launches investment arm to support goal of netzero carbon emissions by 2040

Its still Day One for remote learning: A tech dads thoughts on the new era of public education

Adaptive Biotechnologies CEO Chad Robins on the power of mom and being a good listener

Cybersecurity training company MediaPro lands investment from Frontier Capital names new CEO

Bezos Earth Fund announces first grants totaling 791M of his 10B pledge to help planet

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reaches peak NBA geek as Clippers comeback stuns Warriors

Bill Gatesbacked Pivotal Commware raises 10M as it ramps up 5G antennas

Backed by Elon Musk Global Learning XPRIZE awards 10M to two tech teams

President Trump compliments geniuses in Silicon Valley but claims tech titans discriminate against me in same interview

Kubernetes in 2018: When the going gets good the good get boring

Googles serverless computing strategy starts to take shape as it chases Amazon Web Services and Microsoft

OpenAI acquires Statsig for 11B names CEO to key role in surprise exit for Seattlearea unicorn

Source raises 25 million to expand its platform for commercial design nationwide

TLDR: AntiAmazon graffiti see Times Square under water with HoloLens needlefree blood sugar monitor for people with diabetes

QA: The inside story of Ledger the academic journal for blockchain and cryptocurrency research

Microsoft Amazon Facebook and other tech giants pledge to crack down on violent extremism in Christchurch call to action

DataRobot lands 300M and acquires Seattle machine learning startup Algorithmia

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

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader retiring Apptio cofounder Sunny Gupta will take over enterprise giant

Geek of the Week: At 13 Pranav Karthik develops into true tech geek as he earns WWDC scholarship

Amperes Armbased server chip is ready to challenge Intel in the data center

Gravity Payments employees volunteer to take pay cut as revenue drops 50 during COVID19 crisis

What are memcached servers and why are they being used to launch recordsetting DDoS attacks

Why some opensource companies are considering a more closed approach

Amazon Web Services now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS

Amazonowned Twitch scoops up executives from Pandora Slack and Rubicon to bolster leadership

Former Jive execs raise 3M to bring Karate Kid principle to management teams

After putting down roots near Amazon HQ burger chain Shake Shack to open location east of Seattle

Starbucks rolls out automated counting tech for inventory with help from Seattlearea startup

Underwear maker TomboyX raises 43M aims to tackle lack of inclusivity in fashion industry

Amazon and Capital One face lawsuits after massive hack affects 106M customers

Inspired by the Amazon Dash button this startup is using tech to help special needs students

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

Ignitions John Connors: Seattle is becoming the most important tech market behind Silicon Valley

Do you need a smart connected toothbrush

Geek of the Week: We crunched the numbers and data scientist Alice Zhao is worth getting to know

TMobile to spend 500M to bring 5G to military bases hire 10K vets in sweeping initiative

LinkedIns Top Companies list puts Amazon at No 1 thanks to ability to attract and retain talent

Blue Origin and Airbus back The Moon Race a space contest yet to be defined

The new barcode Alitheon lands 116M for tech that assigns digital fingerprints to objects

Baseball great Roy Halladay dies in crash of his brandnew unorthodox Icon plane

20 years after Microsofts antitrust fight Steve Ballmer betting that Big Tech wont be broken up

APiJET rolls out Smart Aircraft monitoring service with Icelandair as first customer

Tech Moves: Truveta cofounder joins GeneDX Auger hires another Amazonian Microsoft board change

Jeff Bezos pledges 25M more to All in WA to help group provide COVID19 relief across state

Vertafore insurance tech company closing Seattlearea office shifting last remaining jobs to Denver