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F5 is cutting 9% of its workforce as the application security and delivery giant navigates macroeconomic uncertainty.

Ten years after T-Mobile first introduced the “Un-carrier” marketing blitz that boosted its standing among U.S.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Monday revealed the first phase of his “Downtown Activation Plan” to revitalize downtown in a move that could help attract tech companies and their workers to the city core.

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SniffSpot has come a long way since David Adams wanted to get his dog get some exercise.

Salesforce is putting more than 200,000 square feet of Tableau Software office space in the Seattle region up for sublease.

New jobs numbers posted to Amazon’s corporate website show the changing footprint of its U.S.

Figma, the San Francisco startup that makes cloud-based design collaboration software, has opened a small engineering hub in Seattle.

The Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum — started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2004, closed during the pandemic in 2020 and sold last summer — is reopening on May 27.

A new Seattle startup wants to make it easier for businesses to monitor their warehouses using artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies.

Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts.

Alaska Airlines will remove its traditional airport kiosks as part of a broader tech overhaul in cities including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, aiming to get passengers through the airport lobby in 5 minutes or less.

— Nordstrom has a new technology leader.

Like many startups, Homemade came to life in a garage.

Editor’s note: This is the second of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahead of the 2023 GeekWire Awards.

Bill Gates says he’s bullish about the potential for artificial intelligence to transform education and learning — telling a crowd of business and education leaders this week that AI will eventually “be as good a tutor as any human ever could.” Private-sector investments will play a key role, complementing the equity-focused philanthropy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Gates said in an on-stage conversation at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego with Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of Seattle-area education technology company DreamBox Learning.

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