Salesforce to shed some Tableau office space in Seattle | F5 layoffs

F5 is cutting 9% of its workforce as the application security and delivery giant navigates macroeconomic uncertainty. The Seattle company is also reducing office space and travel budgets. Read the CEO’s memo to employees.  

A Seattle chef is getting a taste of startup success with Homemade, a livestreaming platform for cooking classes that launched in 2020. When the pandemic shut everything down, Joel Gamoran said it was hard to live out his purpose of inspiring people to cook. Homemade has been the answer.

Who will be the Next Tech Titan to emerge from the Pacific Northwest? Past winners of this GeekWire Awards category have gone on to raise big funding rounds or go public. Cast your vote.

The latest “Uncarrier” move from T-Mobile, to lure AT&T and Verizon customers into switching wireless networks, is a plan to pay off locked devices and provide a new smartphone free to customers who switch. Read more.

Aerojet Rocketdyne says it’s received a $67 million contract award from Lockheed Martin to provide propulsion systems for the Orion spacecraft that’ll carry astronauts to the moon during three missions planned for the 2030s. The contract will be managed and performed out of the company’s facility in Redmond, Wash. 

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• “Lawsuit time”: Responding to news that Microsoft plans to drop Twitter from its advertising platform, Elon Musk threatened to sue the Seattle-area tech giant. (Mashable, The Verge) 

• Cracking down on counterfeiting: Taking a page from the credit card industry, Amazon launched the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange to help retailers identify marketplace counterfeits. (Reuters)

• SpaceX rocket explodes: Minutes after liftoff in Texas, the giant new Starship rocket came apart and fell back to earth. (The Associated Press)