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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.

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.

Amazon changes back-to-office policy, tells corporate workers to come in 3 days a week

Amazon wants its corporate and tech employees back in the office at least three days per week, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to workers on Friday.

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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.

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.

More news outlets get caught up in nasty conversations with Bing chatbot over facts

It turns out we’re not the only ones getting into fact-checking fights with Bing Chat, Microsoft’s much-vaunted AI chatbot.

Amazon’s new back-to-office policy is welcome news to small businesses around Seattle HQ

Inside a dog daycare business in Seattle’s South Lake Union on Friday, a handful of pups were scurrying around and barking as if they knew something was changing in the neighborhood that Amazon calls home.

Trucking startup Convoy lays off employees for third time in past year, will close Atlanta office

Seattle startup Convoy conducted its third round of layoffs over the past year and said it would close its Atlanta office.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft now says AI-powered Bing chatbot is ‘not a replacement or substitute for the search engine’

“We think of it, humbly, as the next generation of search and browsing.” That was a comment by Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, on Tuesday, Feb.

How this sales startup is using GPT-3 tech to boost lead qualification

The economic slowdown and tech layoffs have dealt a double blow to enterprise sales teams.

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.

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