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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

Follow-up: Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in the latest sign of the retailer’s collapse.

Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline

Zulily made more job cuts Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, the company’s second round of layoffs in the past two weeks and the latest move toward an apparent shutdown.

Zulily transfers assets to professional liquidator as failed retailer unable to issue refunds

The latest chapter in the meltdown of Zulily is reading like a bad holiday fairy tale. The Seattle online retailer — battered after weeks of layoffs, website outages and management reversals — posted a message on its website saying that it has made “the difficult but necessary decision to conduct an orderly wind-down of the business to maximize value for the companies’ creditors.” To help expedite that process, Zulily said Friday that it entered into an agreement with a third-party fiduciary operating under the name of Zulily ABC LLC, a subsidiary of a San Diego-based firm by the name of Douglas Wilson Companies…

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Google to pay Washington state Play Store users as part of $700M antitrust settlement

Google Play Store users in Washington state are eligible for a share of a multistate $700 million antitrust lawsuit settlement reached against the tech giant.

Rules targeting financial criminals will require new filings for startups and small businesses

Startup and small business owners take note: if your company has 20 or fewer full-time employees and gross annual sales of less than $5 million, there’s a new federal filing requirement that you need to know about.

India set to open new consulate in Seattle area, with a focus on tech industry

Seattle’s tech industry could get a boost from the new consulate of India set to open soon.

Tech Moves: Google leaders join Seattle startup MotherDuck; Humanly adds a VP; and more

Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck is expanding its nest with two new leadership hires.

High-tech art experience WNDR Museum closes abruptly in Seattle after 8 months

WNDR Museum, an interactive, tech-infused art experience near the waterfront in downtown Seattle, has ceased operations eight months after opening.

Wizards of the Coast doubles down on generative AI stance, says artists are ‘what makes D&D great’

In response to social media criticism, Wizards of the Coast has released a statement that further clarifies its stance on the use of generative AI in material for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game.

E-commerce company Kaspien, previously known as Etailz, is shutting down and laying off staff

Kaspien Holdings, a publicly traded company that helps online brands boost sales on Amazon and other e-commerce platforms, is closing up shop.

Blue Origin ramps up for second launch attempt after delaying return to spaceflight

Blue Origin is gearing up again to send its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship to space after a 15-month gap and a one-day postponement.

Self-driving company Cruise will lay off 67 workers at Seattle-area engineering hub

Self-driving technology company Cruise is laying off 67 employees at its Bellevue, Wash., engineering center, part of widespread cuts at the GM-backed firm.

Meet Ramberto Torruella, a former Navy submarine officer who is now CTO at famed radio station KEXP

As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an important choice. Take a full ride scholarship to study music composition at Carnegie Mellon University or accept an appointment to the U.S.

Scooter share in Seattle navigates potential bumps as bankruptcy and shutdown hit two providers

Seattle’s scooter and bike share program is navigating a bit of a bumpy road as one company with devices on city streets has filed for bankruptcy and another is reportedly shutting down operations.

These computer science seniors defied tradition to win the first hackathon they ever entered

Once a staple of the startup world, the in-person hackathon was one of the collective habits that fell out of favor during the pandemic — so much so that a group of six Seattle University computer science students made it nearly to the middle of their senior years without competing in one.

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