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Seattle’s new CTO brings Silicon Valley experience north to take on city’s tech challenges
Rob Lloyd grew up a military kid who lived in 12 states and three countries and went to seven schools by the time he graduated high school.
Docusign co-founder launches firm to help entrepreneurs improve their odds of success
Court Lorenzini, a technology industry veteran who co-founded e-signature giant Docusign and three other companies, is launching a new endeavor called Founder Nexus that wants to help entrepreneurs supercharge their businesses.
Allen Institute for AI’s new office lease bolsters an emerging artificial intelligence corridor in Seattle
The Allen Institute for AI has leased a full floor in the new Northlake Commons building in Seattle, part of a growing AI corridor.
Amazon plans logistics site in new industrial building on former Weyerhaeuser campus
Amazon plans to use a new building on the former Weyerhaeuser corporate campus in Federal Way, Wash., as a future logistics site for customer fulfillment.
Report details financial pressure on Amazon Alexa, confirms plans for paid tier and AI revamp
Internal Amazon accounting techniques have overestimated the financial impact from Alexa and Echo, a new report says.
Clean-tech pioneer First Mode is giving its employees advance warning about layoffs
First Mode, a company that concentrates on cleaner tech for heavy industry, has alerted its employees to a significant round of layoffs.
CrowdStrike outage hits 8.5M Windows devices; Microsoft collaborates with Amazon and Google
The flawed update from cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike has affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a post Saturday detailing its ongoing response to the extraordinary global IT outage.
Vancouver legal tech company Clio lands $900M at $3B valuation
Clio raised $900 million, boosting its valuation to $3 billion in what the company describes as the largest capital raise for a cloud-based legal software company ever.
Seattle startup QA Wolf raises $36M to help companies spot bugs in software code
QA Wolf, a Seattle startup that sells software to help companies scan their code for bugs or glitches, raised $36 million in a Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners.
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