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When internet access is life or death: Officials visit Seattle hospital on net neutrality campaign

The startup community is seriously sweating a stock option provision of the Senate tax bill

Oregon enacts net neutrality law as Pacific Northwest Trump resistance grows

Seattle tech workers earn 279Kyear on average more than double the wages in every other sector

Is the regulatory crusade against Big Tech over What experts expect under Biden administration

Ambassadors from Norway and Finland forge ties in Seattle offer glimmer of hope on cybersecurity

Seattle mayor taps City of Ottawas CIO as chief technology officer

Amazons 145M fails to upend Seattle City Council but tech giant wins small victories

United Nations CITO believes tech can solve some of the worlds biggest challenges if the private sector steps up

Seattle IT department cuts 14 jobs in major reorganization to foster innovation

Cascadia rising: New group aims to help Pacific NW rival Silicon Valley as unified innovation hub

Tech industry urges Supreme Court to extend antidiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people

Geek of the Week: ExMicrosoft futurist Genessa Krasnow is a cultural designer and activist with a new game

Data privacy regulations fail in Washington state legislature

Seattle port officials approve face recognition guardrails as feds waffle on the controversial tech

Seattle moves forward with plan to bring Uber and Lyft regulations in line with taxis

Cities wising up to disruptive transportation tech: Why should they use our public right of way to become billionaires

Seattle head tax on top businesses fails narrowly but several lawmakers want to revive it next year

AOC vs Amazon: Alexandria OcasioCortez warns of bias in tech giants facial detection tech

New presidential order will push for net neutrality limit large mergers restrict noncompete clauses

Nearly 100 scholars and urbanists urge HQ2 cities to collectively reject Amazons call for incentives

Washington state lawmakers debut legislation for consumer privacy and facial recognition

At odds with city on head tax Paul Allens Vulcan is building a tinyhouse village to shelter homeless people

GeekWire HQ2 revealed: Were heading to Pittsburgh to cover its postindustrial renaissance and innovation economy

Washington state launches 5M grant program to help small businesses struggling under shutdown

Portland unveils draft ordinance that bans government use of facial recognition tech

One of Amazons earliest investors has this advice for winning HQ2 city

The troubling state of consumer privacy: Weve entered a trust apocalypse era now what

Microsofts Brad Smith on 500M housing pledge: We want our success to support the region

Immigrants and their children founded 43 of last years Fortune 500 companies startup lobby finds

Amazons antitrust adversary: What Lina Khans Senate hearing reveals about Big Techs future

Interview: Washington Gov Jay Inslee on privacy regulating Big Tech and his presidential ambitions

Our 3 favorite startups from UrbanXs 4th demo day

The internets top lobby joins legal crusade against net neutrality repeal

In the year of HQ2 Amazons 2018 lobbying budget ballooned to a record 142 million

Could 1984 become reality by 2024 Microsofts Brad Smith calls for regulation of facial recognition

This Seattle startup is giving Election Day off to its 200 employees to vote and celebrate democracy

Microsofts Brad Smith cites Boeing crisis as cautionary tale for intelligent machines calls for AI kill switch

Seattles King County becomes first US county to ban government use of facial recognition software

FEC asks CEOs of Facebook Alphabet and Twitter to testify on new political ad rules

Federal governments 350B small business relief fund runs out of money in less than 2 weeks

US immigration authorities target outsourcing firms in new H1B visa memo

Bill Gates warns tech giants that a government crackdown may be in their future

Remote work already changing Seattle permanently tech worker survey indicates

Microsofts Brad Smith fears these 3 things will happen under Trump this summer

University of Washington computer science school lands 3 million in state funding to double program

Amazon is doubling its Denver workforce continuing to grow in HQ2 runnerup cities

Facebook Twitter and Google grapple with a new reality as Russia revelations continue to mount

Amazon challenges ACLU study on facial recognition tech and police

Microsoft president says secret subpoenas gag orders should be the exception not the rule