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GeekWire Mid-Week Update

Top stories so far this week
Bench Accounting to be acquired by Employer.com following abrupt shutdown
After a surprise shutdown that shocked customers, Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Bench Accounting will be acquired by Employer.com.
Can Microsoft avoid the ghost of Clippy? Familiar theme emerges in Copilot rollout for Office apps
In late October, Microsoft announced that it was starting to test the integration of its Copilot AI assistant into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions — consumer versions of Office apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.
A better weather forecast: Microsoft vets lead startup outperforming traditional sources
Seattle startup Silurian's weather forecasting tool uses artificial intelligence or AI to outperform government prediction tools.
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The Year in Space: Amazon’s Project Kuiper revs up to join the megaconstellation market
What will 2025 bring from the final frontier? The rise of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite network will be one of the big stories in space.
An artist-in-residence at every tech company? Seattle nonprofit sets ‘big, hairy, audacious goal’
Sounding like veterans of the tech industry that they are hoping to better collaborate with, the co-founders of Seattle-based Future Arts have their sights set on a “big, hairy, audacious goal” (BHAG).
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 22, 2024
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