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Seattle mayor expresses concern about city tax revenue loss due to remote work

Tech companies are looking beyond Seattle for new office space, and the pandemic is enabling more employers to allow remote work.

Meta’s new Seattle leader: ‘The road to the metaverse passes through the Pacific Northwest’

In Paresh Rajwat‘s 20-year journey across the tech landscape, he’s held leadership positions at Apple, Criteo, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer gives impassioned speech at NBA preseason game in Seattle

It was a bit of a throwback scene here in Seattle on Monday evening: Steve Ballmer revving up the crowd at the top of his lungs, and NBA hoops back on the hardwood.

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Report: Amazon freezes corporate hiring for its retail business for remainder of year

Amazon is freezing hiring for corporate roles in its retail business, according to a report from The New York Times on Tuesday.

Nordstrom CTO Edmond Mesrobian to step down from Seattle retail giant

Edmond Mesrobian, Nordstrom’s chief technology and information officer, is stepping down on Oct.

Magic Leap jumps into the enterprise market for augmented reality in ‘coopetition’ with Microsoft

Now that the metaverse is finally getting real, Magic Leap isn’t playing games.

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After selling startup to Baidu, tech vets launch company building AI tools for call centers

Seasalt is building customizable speech recognition tech for enterprise call centers.

TwinStrand CEO and co-founder steps down from Seattle biotech startup amid reported layoffs

TwinStrand Biosciences’ co-founder Jesse Salk has stepped down from the CEO role, according to a statement issued by the Seattle biotech company Friday.

Expedia removes COVID vaccination requirement for employees and others to enter most offices

Expedia Group is removing a COVID-19 vaccination policy at most of its offices around the world, a policy which required employees and others to be vaccinated and boosted in order to work in or visit the company’s physical spaces.

Amazon stops field tests and scales back work on Scout, its home delivery robot program

Amazon is scaling back its work on Scout, the package delivery robot that looks like a cooler on wheels.

Tech Moves: Ex-Zillow VP joins Discord; Bigleaf Networks names CEO

— Annie Rihn, former vice president of recruiting at Zillow Group, is now vice president of talent acquisition at Discord.

Amazon makes first investments in outside VC firms, puts $150M to underrepresented founders

Amazon announced a new diversity-related initiative called Amazon Catalytic Capital that will provide funding to underrepresented entrepreneurs.

Seattle mayor makes another bid for city to use controversial gunshot detection technology

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has been advocating for the city to adopt gunshot detection technology for nearly a decade, first as a City Council member, and now as mayor.

How Amazon’s tech and logistics prowess may disrupt healthcare — and spark concern

As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could change in big ways.

Tech Moves: Wizards of the Coast hires Microsoft exec to lead D&D; Absci adds innovation chief

Wizards of the Coast, the Renton, Wash.-based gaming company owned by Hasbro, hired Dan Rawson for a new role as senior vice president of Dungeons & Dragons.

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