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ExAmazon designers dream up 148 cardboard bassinet and sleep better with sustainable solution

Automotive giant Lear to acquire Seattlearea connected car startup Xevo for 320M

Madrona continues hiring spree with Trilogy veteran Katie Drucker and former Avvo CEO Mark Britton

Amazon redirects some employees to build out COVID19 testing capacity for its frontline workers

The clock is running for the DARPA Launch Challenge with Astra chasing 10M prize

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

Shark Tanks billiondollar blunder: How startup Ring went from TV rejection to Amazon acquisition

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Silicon Valleys impact on America National Day of Civic Hacking and more

No thats not true Amazons Alexa tells Qualcomm executive during CES demo

3 types of intelligent applications that get investors excited

Facebook reveals new details of account breaches revises login token theft down to 30M people

Whole Foods ending rewards programs as grocer teases new ties to Amazon Prime

Seattle UX company Blink acquired by Indiabased IT services giant Mphasis

Why the WeWork fallout isnt affecting womenfocused coworking startup The Riveter

Fresh off Dominos delivery partnership Rad Power Bikes rolls out new 1299 RadRunner cruiser

GeekWork Picks: Discussio seeks senior UXUI designer to help build market research platform

Redfin seeks to raise up to 239M in new debt and stock offering

Joe Coffee raises 13M as mobile order and pay business booms for indie shops during pandemic

Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking

This is Amazons athome COVID19 test kit: We tried it and talked to a testing expert about it

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

Samsung unveils Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus with improved cameras repositioned fingerprint reader

Intellectual Ventures spinoff Xinova lays off staff as invention network company aims for profitability

NFL partners with Amazon Web Services to improve player safety and shape the future of football

With Amazon HQ2 pick imminent past comments show Jeff Bezos repeatedly making the case for an urban campus

Virtual primary care startup 98point6 raises 118M as pandemic sparks demand for digital health tech

Tech Moves: Former Microsoft and Valve exec joins clean energy company Jenni Hogan leaves Tagboard and more

TLDR: Apple announces a new watch that could save your life

Ecommerce company Kaspien previously known as Etailz is shutting down and laying off staff

After delays Blue Origin says we are go for New Shepard suborbital test flight

COVID19 lessons from Iceland: How one Nordic country has all but stopped the virus in its tracks

Tech Moves: Expedia hires Cortana design lead Saykara adds VP of growth

Funding news: Agingwellness startup lands 27M fintech company Embed raises 60M prelaunch

Amazon reportedly taps former Kindle and Flex exec to lead pharmacy group overseeing PillPack

TLDR: Remembering Paul Allen

Amazon Publishing joins Scott Turow John Grisham other top authors in effort to take down pirate book site

Is Russell Wilson a robot No but video shows the Seattle Seahawks QB working out with one

Dropbox unveils a brandnew design and user experience for its desktop app

Review: Take your best shot but Harebraineds BattleTech is a punishingly difficult strategy game

Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs

Can drones make better wine Pollen Systems launches service to analyze vineyards from the air

Version One raises 100M for two new funds will continue focusing on Seattle as key geography

GeekWire Summit: Join us for a look into the future with leaders from Boeing Ring Uber and more

Watch: Ring CEO on how he kept going after Shark Tank rejection and how he feels returning to show

Blokable aims to upend housing affordability crisis with housing development as a service model

Boeing leads 14M funding round for Isotropic Systems to boost satellite links

Amazon as a wireless carrier Company reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile from TMobile and Sprint

Seattlearea startup Inventprise gets more backing from Gates Foundation for pneumonia shot

Amazons health ambitions confirmed Company seeks medical data compliance leader for mysterious new initiative

This Seattle startup shifted to a 4day work week due to the pandemic heres what happened