When the news broke that Amazon founder and moderately rich guy Jeff Bezos commissioned a 417-foot-long, $500 million superyacht known only as Project 721, one fact became immediately clear: The code name Y721 hardly befits a three-masted sailing ship so mighty it needs its own stable pony with a ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/pledgendary-jeff-bezos-name-new-super-yacht/

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A college diploma is considered one of the building blocks for a successful future. If the diploma itself is made out of building blocks, well, congratulations on majoring in meta. UDub Minecraft, a group comprised of current and former University of Washington students who are passionate about ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/block-date-minecraft-graduation-ceremony-will-show-off-uw-groups-detailed-seattle-build/

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The news: Seattle-based Zillow Group responded to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Austin-based real estate startup Real Estate Exchange in March that accused Zillow of anticompetitive behavior related to how certain homes are shown on its platform. In an opposition motion, Zillow alleges that REXs ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/zillow-group-responds-lawsuit-filed-real-estate-exchange-denies-antitrust-claims/

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The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio associated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $8 million for its fourth fund. The Seattle-based studio also unveiled a new model that turns its investors tech vets such as former Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff; former Qualtrics exec Julie ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/madrona-venture-labs-raises-8m-unveils-plan-turn-investors-co-founders-spinouts/

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The news: ShakeAlert, an automated system designed to warn people that an earthquake has occurred and shaking is imminent, is being activated in Washington state today to complete a West Coast rollout of the technology. How it works: The alert system, operated by the U.S Geological Survey in ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/shakealert-earthquake-early-warning-system-goes-live-washington-state-heres-works/

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When Jeff Blackburn announced his retirement from Amazon in February after 22 years, the longtime Jeff Bezos lieutenant stressed that he was not retiring and hinted at news to come on his next move. That caused a wave of speculation in the GeekWire newsroom about the big tech, media or sports ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/ex-amazon-exec-jeff-blackburn-leaves-venture-capital-post-5-weeks-job/

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Elon Musk made his mark tonight on NBCs Saturday Night Live not only as the richest host in the late-night skit shows 46-year run, but also as the first host to acknowledge on live TV that he has Asperger Syndrome. Thats not exactly a surprise: For years, folks ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/hosting-snl-elon-musk-acknowledges-aspergers-riffs-dogecoin/

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In November 2015, Kisha Loomis signed on to Amazon and ordered her son a hoverboard, a two-wheeled vehicle popular with kids and balanced with gyroscopic gears. Just more than four weeks later, on New Years Eve, its lithium ion battery exploded and the hoverboard burst into flames, setting Loomis ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/california-legal-rulings-may-big-impact-amazons-liability-third-party-products-sells/

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The news: Melinda Gates has been working with divorce lawyers since 2019, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Bill and Melinda Gates last week announced a decision to end their marriage after 27 years. The details:Its still unclear what caused the split, but WSJ and The ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/melinda-gates-reportedly-consulted-divorce-lawyers-since-2019/

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by Todd Bishop on September 8, 2021 at 2:23 pm Amit Fulay Microsoft made another key hire for a new consumer technology group, adding former Facebook and Google product leader Amit Fulay as vice president of product. Fulay will work on the initiative known internally as 'Teams for Life,' or TfL, seeking to expand the reach of the company's platform for communications and collaboration. Based in the Seattle area, he will report to Manik Gupta, the former Uber chief product officer, who recently joined Microsoft as a corporate vice president leading its Teams Consumer, Skype, and GroupMe.

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-hires-google-facebook-product-vet-building-teams-life-consumer-group/

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Ad Lightning co-founder Scott Moore is stepping down from his CEO role for personal reasons but will remain on the board of directors and support the companys business strategy. Dan Frechtling has been appointed the new CEO. Spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in 2017, Ad Lightning provides tools...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/tech-moves-ad-lightning-ceo-scott-moore-steps-amazon-prime-video-adds-nike-vet/

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A young childs ability to acquire language is nothing short of astonishing. But occasionally a toddler will pick up an inappropriate word, often with no comprehension of its meaning. Fortunately, with the right guidance, the child can be steered away from using the offensive term. A similar ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/researchers-develop-new-way-help-machine-generated-language-systems-reduce-toxic-language/

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Two satellites for BlackSkys Earth observation constellation were lost today when the second stage of Rocket Labs Electron launch vehicle suffered an anomaly, just minutes after liftoff from New Zealand. Rocket Lab said the mission failure was under investigation. The issue ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/blacksky-earth-observing-satellites-lost-due-anomaly-rocket-lab-launch/

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Growing up, Charna Parkey was always the tech person in her house. In high school she started getting IT certifications, and by the time she got to college, she took as many engineering classes as she could. On a referral from a professor, Parkey, who grew up in Florida, landed her ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/charna-parkey/

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The University of Washington will require all students get vaccinated against COVID-19 before the start of the autumn quarter, UW President Ana Mari Cauce announced Monday. In a message to students, faculty, academic personnel and staff at UW, Cauce said widespread vaccination is the only ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/university-washington-joins-growing-list-colleges-will-require-covid-19-vaccine/

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Created more than 20 years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been a global leader in philanthropy. So what happens when its Bill and Melinda no more? With news breaking Monday of the divorce between Bill and Melinda Gates, questions are swirling about the future of their foundation. In ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/divorce-fallout-happens-gates-foundation-bill-melinda-no-longer-married/

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When Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon Consumer Worldwide, made the surprise announcement in August that he was leaving, he said he felt it was time to do something else. Time for me to take time to explore personal interests that have taken a back seat for over two decades, Wilke wrote in a ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/former-amazon-exec-jeff-wilke-thinks-u-s-can-manufacturing-powerhouse/

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Despite manufacturing shortages, the global PC market saw its fourth consecutive quarter of growth, with shipments of new systems up 53.1% year-over-year for Q1 to 122.1 million units and Googles Chromebooks seeing an enormous 274.6% spike to 12 million units. This data comes from analyst ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-sales-grew-275-q1-amazon-tablet-shipments-climb-nearly-200/

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Just before he was about to begin teaching his online family law class at the University of Washington on Monday, professor Terry Price received an emphatic text from one of his former law students. It read simply: Bill and Melinda!!!! So I stopped what I was doing and Googled it immediately, Price ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/gates-split-money-outrageous-divorce-likely-wont/

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Amazons newest Echo Dot is sold in charcoal, glacier white and twilight blue. But behind the scenes, the smart speakers that deliver Alexa are newly greened. The Seattle-based tech giant is working to shrink its carbon footprint to reach carbon neutrality by 2040. To fulfill that promise, Amazon ...

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Cybersecurity giant Tanium appointed Marc Levine as its new CFO, effective May 17. He was most recently CFO at RSA Security. Levine previously was CFO at C3.ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. He spent 25 years at Hewlett Packard, including stints as SVP of finance ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/tech-moves-tanium-hires-cfo-utrip-founder-launches-vc-firm-aws-iot-exec-joins-siemens/

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New funding: LumaTax landed $4 million in new funding led by Trilogy Equity Partners. The 4-year-old startup that spun out of Seattles Pioneer Square Labs initially targeted small businesses to automate their sales tax reporting process. But over the past year the company has landed dozens of top ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/sales-tax-compliance-audit-startup-lumatax-raises-4m/

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Acquisition news: San Francisco product intelligence company Amplitude acquired Seattle startupIteratively. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, Iteratively sells software to data and product teams for customer analytics tracking. The idea is to help prevent data quality problems ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amplitude-acquires-seattle-customer-data-analytics-startup-iteratively/

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New funding: PDM Automotive, a 3-year-old company that runs an automotive product data platform for manufacturers and receivers, raised a $4 million round led by Fuse. The startup provides information on aftermarket automotive parts and other data to companies such as Walmart, Advance Auto Parts, ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/auto-parts-data-platform-pdm-automotive-raises-4m-doubling-revenue-2020/

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Jonny Silverberg, co-owner of Seattles Schmaltzys Delicatessen, remembers his breaking point. It was on a Wednesday, not long ago. A customer called saying that the items she ordered were not in her delivery. She demanded a refund. I looked up the order, the 43-year-old recalled. And it turned out ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/seattle-deli-ditched-third-party-delivery-services-dont-want-anywhere-near-food/

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Amazon is hiring an additional 75,000 workers for its warehouse and logistics operations across the U.S. and Canada as the Seattle giant continues to grow at a whirlwind pace amid the pandemic. The latest hiring spree amounts to an expansion of nearly 6% of Amazons 1.27 million employee workforce ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-add-another-75000-workers-offers-100-bonus-proof-vaccination/

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New funding: Bean Box, the Seattle startup that delivers premium coffee from independent roasters, has raised $2.4 million in new funding as part of a Series A round. The company: Founded in 2014 by Matthew Berk and Ryan Fritzky, Bean Box offers coffee products from 40 top-rated, small-batch ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/seattle-startup-bean-box-raises-2-4m-pandemic-fuels-demand-specialty-coffee-home/

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The next two satellites in BlackSkys constellation of Earth-watching spacecraft are due to be launched by Rocket Lab from New Zealand as early as this weekend, but their path to orbit featured prominent stops half a world away in the Seattle area. BlackSkys Gen-2 Global satellites were designed and ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/assists-seattle-satellite-launch-will-boost-blackskys-geospatial-intelligence-network/

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