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Auto care giant Bridgestone invests in Seattle mobile car repair startup Wrench

Volt raising more cash to expand workout app to office and law enforcement customers

Target to buy sameday grocery delivery company Shipt for 550M as it battles Amazon

Microsoft Azure multifactor authentication bug strikes again causing issues for Office 365 users

Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures

Avast acquires Seattle startup Tenta leading to release of new secure browser for Android

Jimmy Kimmel interviews cackling Alexa and Amazons voice assistant gets last laugh

TLDR: Digitizing movies before they vanish

Dish could save TMobileSprint merger with reported 6B deal for spectrum and Boost Mobile

Bill Gates calls for mega testing and global disease alert system to prevent the next pandemic

Night launch sends nextgen JPSS1 weather satellite and more into orbit

Mpirica Health partners with services giant Aon to bring healthcare rankings to users around the globe

Microsoft calls for government regulation of facial recognition technology

AI2 and Microsoft join the White Houses push to enlist AI for the war on coronavirus

Airbnb files for IPO with future of travel uncertain Expedia Group listed as competitor in prospectus

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligences new fund makes first investment backing Panda AI

Really New York is the official second headquarters of tech In Seattle we say not so fast

Cryptocurrency ATM startup Coinme raises 55M as sales increase amid pandemic

Boost Sport raises 13M to help basketball teams win more games with video analysis tech

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names AWS vet as CTO ExNike exec heads Grayls board Indeed replaces CEO

Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmias DanKu experiment unfolded

Geeks Gaming for Good: Avalara defeats Chef in a thrilling Rocket League championship

Survey: Americans dont trust Big Tech or the government to prevent foreign election interference

BluHaptics rebrands itself as Olis Robotics and acquires machine language startup

JetClosing raises 85M as pandemic highlights demand for digital title and escrow service

Data analytics startup Versium expands into businesstobusiness marketing with new service

Lawsuit alleges toymaker Funko misled investors about its financials prior to IPO

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan 14 2018

Microsoft inks cloud deal with Intelligence Community ahead of decision on huge Pentagon cloud contract

Amazons board diversity policy stirs debate at annual shareholder meeting

AbSci acquires AI startup Denovium to boost synthetic biology platform

Convoy rival Uber Freight raises 500M valuing trucking logistics business at 33B

Stripe closes Seattle office for two days as precaution after learning employee had contact with coronavirus patient

Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

Tech Moves: Karat names SVP sales Phytelligence taps VP operations SigmaDesign adds new office

Capping a year of change Chef taps former Impinj CFO Evan Fein as its new CFO

Zillow survey forecasts suburban boom as remote workers flee pricey cities in search of bigger homes

Judge denies former Microsoft employees bid to expand gender discrimination suit against tech giant

Microsoft exposed 250M customer service records due to misconfiguration of internal database

Senator probes Jeff Bezos on alleged hack by Saudi crown prince

Cloud automation provider SkyKick lands 130M riding pandemic tailwinds from digital acceleration

Meet the 4 new startups joining a fintech incubator run by BECU and UW in Seattle

Microsoft to test Total Recallstyle personnel scanners at two data centers Redmond office and mystery East Coast location

Robert Downey Jr backing Seattle bamboo toilet paper maker Cloud Paper as part of new VC effort

Wizards of the Coast hires video game vet Leah Hoyer to lead new Wizards Kids Studio

No end in sight: Even in winter median home price in Seattle jumps 20K in a month to 777K

Avalara brings in former Oracle exec to be new CTO as sales tax automation company preps for IPO

We voted with a smartphone in a Seattlearea election and this is what we discovered

Employees call on Microsoft to drop HoloLensUS Army contract: We did not sign up to develop weapons

Watch: The immigrants journey told by 3 foreignborn technologists who want to change the world