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The Seattle Orcas lost in yesterday’s inaugural Major League Cricket championship. But the team’s owners, including several tech executives, are thrilled with their new franchise. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, an Orcas co-owner, was at the game in Texas on Sunday and threw out the “first ball,” cricket’s equivalent to baseball’s first pitch. (Above: Nadella, center, with Madrona Managing Director and Orcas co-owner S. “Soma” Somasegar, right, and GMR Sports owner Kiran Kumar Grandhi.) Read more.

Amazon achieved its fastest delivery speeds on record after overhauling U.S. operations to put more items closer to customers. The company credited the milestone to a series of changes.

Seattle business brothers bet on SPAC: Ted and Chris Ackerley, longtime investors and co-owners of the Seattle Kraken, are part of a new special purpose acquisition company. The investment vehicle, also known as a SPAC, re-emerged in a big way during the pandemic but then fell off last year. Here’s why the brothers are betting on it now.

Space event comes to Seattle: The 12th annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference comes at a “critical juncture” for the future of the ISS. Read more

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