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education
geeking out kids of color
heven ambachew
Junior Geek of the Month: Heven Ambachew uses tech to pursue her passion around social justice
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amazon
president trump
us postal service
Trump throws Amazon under the delivery truck in debate over US Postal Service economics
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data
privacy
washington
Washington state considers new privacy law to regulate data collection and facial recognition tech
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tech moves
clari
concur
nikolaj gilbert
path
steve singh
Tech Moves: PATH taps Nikolaj Gilbert as new CEO Concur cofounder Steve Singh joins Clari board
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starbucks
Starbucks mobile orders make up record 22 of transactions as Q3 sales sink 40 due to COVID19
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allen institute for ai
artificial intelligence
lekshmi venu
majorboost
AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls
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tech moves
bardy diagnostics
bill sornsin
carol meyers
david canelis
elissa fink
kedar deshpande
kevin hykes
leadsrx
luum
maria berardo
maven
qumulo
rowan trollope
smartsheet
tony hsieh
zappos
zipwhip
Tech Moves: Smartsheet Qumulo Zipwhip add board directors Bardy hires a new president Maven cofounder steps down and more
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layoffs
puppet
Puppet lays off three percent of workforce as it looks for more growth
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andrew moore
carnegie mellon university
faciometrics
uber
university of washington
The future of Pittsburgh and the world: CMUs Andrew Moore brings GeekWires HQ2 project home
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amazon
amazon fulfillment
hiring
jobs
Amazon to hire 100000 new operations workers in latest spree fueled by pandemic demand
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heart disease
medicine
stem cells
university of washington
uw medicine
Stem cells help fix damaged hearts in monkeys human testing is on the way
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microsoft
dev stahlkopf
maternity leave
parental leave
Microsoft contractors to get 12 weeks of paid parental leave under new policy for suppliers
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freshchalk
ExUrbanspoon and Dwellable execs take on Google and Yelp with friend recommendation startup
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health tech podcast
artificial intelligence
cardinal analytx
microsoft
premera
Doctor Bot: How artificial intelligence is already changing healthcare and whats coming next
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microsoft
github
GitHub recovering after a widespread outage caused by networking and database issues
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tech
dean baquet
journalism
media
new york times
news
NYT editor on the state of journalism: Technology is leaving us with the stuff that pisses people off
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geekwire bash
GeekWire Bash: Tickets on sale for our annual geek carnival with some special new additions
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geared up
apple
ipad pro
macbook air
samsung
Geared Up: Is Samsungs foldable smartphone a step forward or just a holiday gimmick
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geekwire weekly
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan 3 2021
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cloud tech
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fundraising
hammer ventures
kannan parthasarathy
lytical ventures
madrona venture group
montycloud
seed round
startups
venkat hari
venkat krishnamachari
venture capital
Microsoft and Amazon vets raise 285M for multicloud management platform MontyCloud
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angel investors
dave parker
investors
startups
venture capital
wtia
WTIAs Founder Cohort Program launches new class of 24 startups with inside tips from investors
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amazon
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amazon web services
legal issues
parler
Federal judge cites US Capitol breach in denial of Parlers initial motion for reinstatement on AWS
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cloud tech
foreshadow
intel
meltdown
spectre
New Intel chip flaw resembles Spectre and Meltdown but targets special chip security features
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amazon
game streaming
gaming
Amazon reportedly working on game streaming service talking to publishers about signing up
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microsoft
president biden
satya nadella
Report: Microsoft to quadruple cybersecurity investments spending 20B over five years
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amazon
civic innovation
city council
head tax
politics
seattle
Amazon gives 1M to group seeking to upend Seattle City Council in upcoming election
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tech
linkedin
New LinkedIn hiring tools include ability for recruiters to issue bulk rejections to job applicants
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tech
geekwire summit
steve ballmer
Steve Ballmer on leadership lessons from the NBA China dilemma Microsofts new devices and more
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amazon
bernie sanders
jeff bezos
Amazon raises its minimum wage to 15hour vows to lead push for higher US minimum wage
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sports tech
tech moves
key arena
oak view group
tim leiweke
tod leiweke
NFL COO Tod Leiweke departs will reportedly team up with brother to lead Seattles NHL team
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real estate
department of justice
glenn kelman
redfin
Redfin applauds Department of Justice action to make buyer agent commissions public
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startups
employment
funding
immigration
labor
legalpad
visas
workforce
Legalpad raises 10M to scale work visa automation platform
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computer science
university of washington
University of Washingtons computer science clout on full display at annual student showcase event
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civic innovation
facebook
social media
internet
media
news
politics
regulation
Most Americans believe tech companies should be regulated like news publishers survey finds
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science
naveen jain
Naveen Jain explores the entrepreneurial frontier in Moonshots book and business
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bot or not
science
deepfake detection challenge
deepfakes
facebook
fake news
microsoft
video
Facebook and Microsoft join researchers to set up contest for deepfake video detection
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amazon
cloud tech
amazon web services
cisco
networking
switches
According to Cisco Amazon Web Services isnt making a commercial networking switch It still could be making a switch
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amazon
retail
ecommerce
ebay
lawsuits
eBay accuses Amazon of illegal scheme to poach ecommerce sellers in new lawsuit
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startups
NetBase Quid acquires social media analytics startup Rival IQ
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amazon
cloud tech
amazon elastic inference
amazon web services
andy jassy
aws inferentia
aws reinvent
New machinelearning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brandnew custom chip
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civic innovation
hb
immigration
uscis
New H1B visa rules take effect April 1 changing how tech companies hire foreignborn talent
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startups
boise
cybersecurity
funding
fundraising
madrona
plextrac
Boisebased PlexTrac raises 10M for cybersecurity collaboration and workflow software
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tech
leafly
Marijuana strain and dispensary resource Leafly opens Baltimore office
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tech
ces
charmin
Will Charmin disrupt the toilet experience with these new technologies unveiled at CES
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startups
benefits
covid
perks
protests
Tech companies get creative with pandemic and protestrelated perks for employees
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facebook
tech moves
brendan iribe
oculus
Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe is leaving Facebook the latest in a series of founder departures
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amazon
cloud tech
alexa
amazon echo
amazon web services
artificial intelligence
blink
Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts aiming at Echo cameras and AI
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amazon
civic innovation
microsoft
cloud
dod
jedi
pentagon
Microsoft: We are proud that we are an integral partner of DoD after winning 10B JEDI contract
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cloud tech
Meet Pulumi a Seattlegrown cloud startup that wants to be the development platform for the multicloud era
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geekwire weekly
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec 23 2018