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New round of layoffs at Hasbro impacts Wizards of the Coast — read CEO’s memo to staff
Employees at Renton, Wash.-based gaming giant Wizards of the Coast were affected by a new round of layoffs at its parent company, Hasbro.
‘Just infuriating’: Online retailer Zulily flip-flops, now plans to lay off employees amid holidays
Zulily employees received notice last week that they’d lose their jobs in February.
Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling — and could lead to a brain drain
A new round of layoffs at Hasbro has impacted its subsidiary Wizards of the Coast, despite Wizards’ strong recent performance and its status as a linchpin for Hasbro’s overall revenue stream.
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Glowforge lays off 30 employees as maker of 3D laser engravers gets ‘ready for what’s next’
Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser engravers, has laid off 30 employees, co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro confirmed to GeekWire on Friday.
Spendy and slow Tesla repairs frustrate drivers as automotive tech drives up cost of collisions
When Kelly Campbell bought a metallic gray Tesla last year, the Seattle resident was delighted.
How Pfizer’s $43B acquisition of Seagen may impact Seattle and broader biotech market
Editor’s note: William Canestaro is managing director at Seattle venture capital firm WRF Capital and leads the biotechnology investment team.  Seagen’s sale to Pfizer would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago.
Researchers map the entire mouse brain, cataloging 5,322 different types of cells
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of thousands of cell types across the entire mouse brain.
Zulily sues Amazon, alleging that price-fixing and supplier coercion sank its attempts to compete
Less than a week after cutting hundreds of jobs and signaling its intent to go out of business, online retailer Zulily filed suit against Amazon on Monday — alleging that the e-commerce giant's tactics made it impossible to compete on price without jeopardizing its relationships with key suppliers.
Surviving Amazon: Work, life, and bias inside one of the world’s most ambitious businesses
[Editor’s Note: We’re excited this week to welcome a guest host to the GeekWire Podcast, Ross Reynolds, whose voice is well-known in the Seattle region from his 34 years at KUOW, the public radio station from which he retired in 2021.
Jeff Bezos on AI: Large language models are ‘not inventions, they’re discoveries’
Jeff Bezos sat down for an extensive and wide-ranging discussion with Lex Fridman about his life, work, the future of humanity and what’s next for technology on an episode of the computer scientist’s popular podcast, published today.
Pfizer wins regulatory approval for its $43B acquisition of Seattle-area biotech giant Seagen
Pfizer’s plan to acquire Seagen for $43 billion has cleared the necessary regulatory hurdles, the pharma titan announced Tuesday.
Seattle approves ‘landmark policy’ requiring 4,100 buildings to slash carbon footprints by 2050
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved rules requiring roughly 4,100 existing buildings of more than 20,000 square feet to slash their greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep people on task
Shelpful, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get stuff done, has checked a major item off its to-do list: the company has raised $3 million from Apollo Projects, the venture fund run by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his brothers.
‘The epicenter of AI’: CNBC’s Cramer is mad about Seattle’s position in new wave of tech
Just a few months after it looked like Seattle was being left out of the national conversation about artificial intelligence and the new tech economy, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer put the spotlight on the region.
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