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Junior Geek of the Month: Heven Ambachew uses tech to pursue her passion around social justice

Trump throws Amazon under the delivery truck in debate over US Postal Service economics

Washington state considers new privacy law to regulate data collection and facial recognition tech

Tech Moves: PATH taps Nikolaj Gilbert as new CEO Concur cofounder Steve Singh joins Clari board

Starbucks mobile orders make up record 22 of transactions as Q3 sales sink 40 due to COVID19

AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls

Tech Moves: Smartsheet Qumulo Zipwhip add board directors Bardy hires a new president Maven cofounder steps down and more

Puppet lays off three percent of workforce as it looks for more growth

The future of Pittsburgh and the world: CMUs Andrew Moore brings GeekWires HQ2 project home

Amazon to hire 100000 new operations workers in latest spree fueled by pandemic demand

Stem cells help fix damaged hearts in monkeys human testing is on the way

Microsoft contractors to get 12 weeks of paid parental leave under new policy for suppliers

ExUrbanspoon and Dwellable execs take on Google and Yelp with friend recommendation startup

Doctor Bot: How artificial intelligence is already changing healthcare and whats coming next

GitHub recovering after a widespread outage caused by networking and database issues

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

GeekWire Bash: Tickets on sale for our annual geek carnival with some special new additions

Geared Up: Is Samsungs foldable smartphone a step forward or just a holiday gimmick

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan 3 2021

Microsoft and Amazon vets raise 285M for multicloud management platform MontyCloud

WTIAs Founder Cohort Program launches new class of 24 startups with inside tips from investors

Federal judge cites US Capitol breach in denial of Parlers initial motion for reinstatement on AWS

New Intel chip flaw resembles Spectre and Meltdown but targets special chip security features

Amazon reportedly working on game streaming service talking to publishers about signing up

Report: Microsoft to quadruple cybersecurity investments spending 20B over five years

Amazon gives 1M to group seeking to upend Seattle City Council in upcoming election

New LinkedIn hiring tools include ability for recruiters to issue bulk rejections to job applicants

Steve Ballmer on leadership lessons from the NBA China dilemma Microsofts new devices and more

Amazon raises its minimum wage to 15hour vows to lead push for higher US minimum wage

NFL COO Tod Leiweke departs will reportedly team up with brother to lead Seattles NHL team

Redfin applauds Department of Justice action to make buyer agent commissions public

Legalpad raises 10M to scale work visa automation platform

University of Washingtons computer science clout on full display at annual student showcase event

Most Americans believe tech companies should be regulated like news publishers survey finds

Naveen Jain explores the entrepreneurial frontier in Moonshots book and business

Facebook and Microsoft join researchers to set up contest for deepfake video detection

According to Cisco Amazon Web Services isnt making a commercial networking switch It still could be making a switch

eBay accuses Amazon of illegal scheme to poach ecommerce sellers in new lawsuit

NetBase Quid acquires social media analytics startup Rival IQ

New machinelearning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brandnew custom chip

New H1B visa rules take effect April 1 changing how tech companies hire foreignborn talent

Boisebased PlexTrac raises 10M for cybersecurity collaboration and workflow software

Marijuana strain and dispensary resource Leafly opens Baltimore office

Will Charmin disrupt the toilet experience with these new technologies unveiled at CES

Tech companies get creative with pandemic and protestrelated perks for employees

Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe is leaving Facebook the latest in a series of founder departures

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts aiming at Echo cameras and AI

Microsoft: We are proud that we are an integral partner of DoD after winning 10B JEDI contract

Meet Pulumi a Seattlegrown cloud startup that wants to be the development platform for the multicloud era

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec 23 2018