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Auto care giant Bridgestone invests in Seattle mobile car repair startup Wrench
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Volt raising more cash to expand workout app to office and law enforcement customers
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Target to buy sameday grocery delivery company Shipt for 550M as it battles Amazon
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Microsoft Azure multifactor authentication bug strikes again causing issues for Office 365 users
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Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures
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Avast acquires Seattle startup Tenta leading to release of new secure browser for Android
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Jimmy Kimmel interviews cackling Alexa and Amazons voice assistant gets last laugh
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TLDR: Digitizing movies before they vanish
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Dish could save TMobileSprint merger with reported 6B deal for spectrum and Boost Mobile
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Bill Gates calls for mega testing and global disease alert system to prevent the next pandemic
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Night launch sends nextgen JPSS1 weather satellite and more into orbit
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Mpirica Health partners with services giant Aon to bring healthcare rankings to users around the globe
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Microsoft calls for government regulation of facial recognition technology
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AI2 and Microsoft join the White Houses push to enlist AI for the war on coronavirus
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Airbnb files for IPO with future of travel uncertain Expedia Group listed as competitor in prospectus
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligences new fund makes first investment backing Panda AI
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Really New York is the official second headquarters of tech In Seattle we say not so fast
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Cryptocurrency ATM startup Coinme raises 55M as sales increase amid pandemic
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Boost Sport raises 13M to help basketball teams win more games with video analysis tech
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Tech Moves: Smartsheet names AWS vet as CTO ExNike exec heads Grayls board Indeed replaces CEO
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Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmias DanKu experiment unfolded
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Geeks Gaming for Good: Avalara defeats Chef in a thrilling Rocket League championship
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Survey: Americans dont trust Big Tech or the government to prevent foreign election interference
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BluHaptics rebrands itself as Olis Robotics and acquires machine language startup
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JetClosing raises 85M as pandemic highlights demand for digital title and escrow service
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Data analytics startup Versium expands into businesstobusiness marketing with new service
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Lawsuit alleges toymaker Funko misled investors about its financials prior to IPO
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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan 14 2018
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Microsoft inks cloud deal with Intelligence Community ahead of decision on huge Pentagon cloud contract
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Amazons board diversity policy stirs debate at annual shareholder meeting
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AbSci acquires AI startup Denovium to boost synthetic biology platform
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Convoy rival Uber Freight raises 500M valuing trucking logistics business at 33B
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Stripe closes Seattle office for two days as precaution after learning employee had contact with coronavirus patient
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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards
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Tech Moves: Karat names SVP sales Phytelligence taps VP operations SigmaDesign adds new office
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Capping a year of change Chef taps former Impinj CFO Evan Fein as its new CFO
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Zillow survey forecasts suburban boom as remote workers flee pricey cities in search of bigger homes
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Judge denies former Microsoft employees bid to expand gender discrimination suit against tech giant
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Microsoft exposed 250M customer service records due to misconfiguration of internal database
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Senator probes Jeff Bezos on alleged hack by Saudi crown prince
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Cloud automation provider SkyKick lands 130M riding pandemic tailwinds from digital acceleration
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Meet the 4 new startups joining a fintech incubator run by BECU and UW in Seattle
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Microsoft to test Total Recallstyle personnel scanners at two data centers Redmond office and mystery East Coast location
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Robert Downey Jr backing Seattle bamboo toilet paper maker Cloud Paper as part of new VC effort
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Wizards of the Coast hires video game vet Leah Hoyer to lead new Wizards Kids Studio
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No end in sight: Even in winter median home price in Seattle jumps 20K in a month to 777K
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Avalara brings in former Oracle exec to be new CTO as sales tax automation company preps for IPO
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We voted with a smartphone in a Seattlearea election and this is what we discovered
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Employees call on Microsoft to drop HoloLensUS Army contract: We did not sign up to develop weapons
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Watch: The immigrants journey told by 3 foreignborn technologists who want to change the world