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‘Tableau has been killed by Salesforce’: Past and current Tableau employees gather at ‘Irish wake’
On an otherwise run-of-the-mill weeknight at Fremont Brewing near Lake Union in Seattle, the line for beer stretched past the front doors and into the outdoor seating area.
Amazon’s Super Bowl ad starring a dog ranks highest among tech commercials
Amazon, the pet friendly tech giant where employees get to bring their dogs to work, scored high among Super Bowl advertisers with an ad about a dog that’s left at home.
Seattle-area police use adhesive GPS trackers to catch fleeing suspects, prevent high-speed chases
The Redmond Police Department implemented new GPS technology last month that has helped result in three arrests.
Seattle founder who sold company to Google says tech giant has ‘slowly ceased to function’
A former Google employee who just left the tech giant after three years says he witnessed a “gradual decay of a dominant empire” and said the company “has slowly ceased to function.” Praveen Seshadri, who sold his Seattle startup AppSheet to Google Cloud in 2020, published a blog post Tuesday suggesting that Google needs an “intervention.” “Google’s fundamental problems are along the culture axis and everything else is a reflection of it,” he wrote.
Walmart says Seattle ‘remains core’ as retail giant closes 3 tech offices
Walmart is consolidating its tech office real estate footprint, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, closing hubs in Austin, Carlsbad, Calif., and Portland, Ore.
Blue Origin talks up technology that could eventually turn moon dirt into solar cells
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture isn’t just working on rockets and space stations: The Kent, Wash.-based company is also developing a technology that could someday transform the moon’s soil into materials for electricity-producing solar cells and transmission wire.
Scoop: Flyhomes acquires Loftium, combining two Seattle real estate tech companies
Flyhomes is broadening its suite of home-buying tools by acquiring the host-to-own platform Loftium in a Seattle startup real estate deal.
Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one
Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines self-serve kiosks to print bag tags.
Amperity lays off workers for second time in a year as part of restructuring
Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months.
The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area
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