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The old brick ballpark: LEGO fanatic has a hit on his hands with Seattle Mariners stadium build
The Seattle Mariners have been busy assembling the building blocks for a potential run to the World Series.
Amazon installs historic Elephant Car Wash sign on Seattle HQ campus, blocks from original home
One of Seattle’s beloved neon pink elephants is back up and smiling.
Microsoft delays timeframe for 9 office buildings in massive HQ redevelopment
Microsoft is pushing back the timeframe for nine of the 17 buildings in the redevelopment of its original Redmond headquarters campus, delaying their completion while saying it is still committed to finishing the entire project.
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Microsoft tops list of best-run companies in the U.S. for third straight year
Microsoft has one again topped a list of the best-run companies in the U.S.
Q&A with the 19-year-old Univ. of Washington grad who just won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Daniel Chen is only 19, but he’s already a freshly minted University of Washington graduate and a recipient of a prestigious Marshall Scholarship, announced Monday.
MacKenzie Scott launches new website that details her giving process and lists recipients of $14B
Seattle philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott launched a new website that outlines her charitable giving process for the first time.
Chess Club is making all the right moves in Seattle, attracting players to lively venues across the city
Unlike Fight Club, the first rule of Chess Club is apparently to talk about what happens in Chess Club, promote it, support it and enjoy it.
After advising Starbucks’ NFT project, Seattle tech vets Adam Brotman and Andy Sack raise $10M for Web3 startup
Two longtime Seattle-area tech leaders are teaming up on a new startup that sells NFT-based customer engagement tech to consumer-facing companies.
Historic fusion energy achievement will boost Pacific Northwest’s burgeoning startups
U.S. physicists have accomplished a feat the world has pursued for more than 60 years: producing more energy from fusion than required to create the reaction.
Microsoft’s new chief sustainability officer will draw on skills from White House, VC and law background
Microsoft today announced that Melanie Nakagawa will start next month as its chief sustainability officer.
Wizards of the Coast President Cynthia Williams on tabletop trends, 2023 strategy, and more
After stints with Microsoft’s Xbox team and Amazon’s finance and fulfillment departments, Cynthia Williams started a new role 10 months ago as president at Wizards of the Coast.
Tech Moves: Smartsheet’s chief people and culture officer is departing
— Smartsheet’s chief people and culture officer, Megan Hansen, is leaving the company.
Seattle-area battery manufacturer Group14 lands $214M from Microsoft’s climate fund and others
Group14 Technologies, a Woodinville, Wash.-based battery manufacturer, announced today that it raised $214 million from investors that include Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund.
Microsoft says it offered to enter ‘Call of Duty’ consent decree with FTC for Activision deal
Microsoft’s last-ditch effort to avoid an Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over its $69 billion Activision-Blizzard deal included an offer to enter a legally binding consent decree to make “Call of Duty” available on rival consoles for 10 years, the company’s president and vice chair, Brad Smith, said Tuesday morning.
Tech Moves: Karat, Common Room, Aduro hire execs; longtime Microsoft cloud leader departs
— Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, hired two new executives.
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