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New round of Microsoft job cuts hits customer service, support, and sales teams
Microsoft announced a new round of job cuts internally Monday morning, impacting an unknown number of employees in customer service, support, and sales.
Large graffiti painted on street outside Amazon’s Seattle HQ targets company as ‘Prime polluter’
Story updated with comment from Amazon. Amazon and CEO Andy Jassy were the targets of a large graffiti message painted on Sixth Avenue outside the company’s Seattle headquarters on Thursday.
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Blue Origin’s next-gen BE-4 rocket engine fails dramatically during testing in Texas
Blue Origin confirmed that one of its BE-4 rocket engines suffered a significant anomaly during testing in Texas late last month.
Rare corpse flower blooms in Amazon’s Spheres and thousands line up to snap a pic and take a sniff
A line of people snaking through the Spheres on Wednesday and Thursday this week ended with a photo op on an upper floor of Amazon’s unique Seattle office building.
How AI is changing the way scientists engineer drugs, biosensors, enzymes and more
We’re inside the headquarters of Outpace Bio in Seattle.
Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP
Raejeanne Skillern, a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned.
Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud
Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.
Electronic Arts partners with Marvel for new video game studio in Seattle
The next big Marvel Comics video game is being made in Seattle.
Antstream Arcade will bring cloud gaming service and 1,300 retro titles to Xbox
Cloud gaming company Antstream Arcade announced Friday that it plans to launch on Xbox on July 21, bringing its library of more than 1,300 retro video games to Microsoft’s gaming platform.
Despite venture capital slowdown, these investors remain bullish on Seattle
There are parallels between the recent tech market downturn and the dot-com bubble.
Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more
— Diena Lee Mann, former senior vice president at Seattle startup SoundCommerce, launched a startup that aims to help business analysts work more effectively with platforms such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker Studio, and others.
Drones light up Seattle sky with baseball images and more as part of All-Star Game celebration
Seattle Mariners star Julio Rodriguez hopes to knock the lights out in Monday’s MLB All-Star Game Home Run Derby.
Rad Power Bikes backpedals out of Europe and lays off employees again
Rad Power Bikes is leaving Europe. The Seattle-based startup confirmed that it will cease selling its electric bikes to customers in the United Kingdom and European Union starting in 2024.
Tech CEOs and professors on how the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling could impact hiring
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions may have ripple effects beyond education and into the corporate workplace.
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