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Update: Slack, Peloton, and others recover from Monday morning outages

Update, 11 a.m. Feb. 22: Slack, Peloton and other services are recovering after a few hours of downtime.] Update 3:55 p.m.

Microsoft employees will return to a campus that’s in the midst of a massive transformation

REDMOND, Wash. — After working from home for more than two years, Microsoft employees returning to the company’s headquarters starting next week might not recognize the place.

Google’s Seattle waterfront campus sells for record price in sign of confidence in tech office market

Vulcan Real Estate sold the two-block, four building Google campus overlooking Seattle’s Lake Union for $802 million, a price of $1,260 per square foot that’s believed to set a new record for the city’s office market.

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E-commerce startup Fabric, led by Amazon vets, raises $140M at $1.5B valuation to pursue ‘absurd’ market opportunity

Fabric, a Seattle-based e-commerce technology startup whose leadership team includes several former Amazon executives, announced a $140 million Series C funding round, led by SoftBank, at a valuation of about $1.5 billion.

Photos: Russell Wilson and Ciara take it to the ‘House’ and toast their first fashion store in Seattle

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and music superstar Ciara took it to the “House” on Tuesday night — The House of LR&C, actually — as they partied to celebrate the opening of their first fashion store.

Plan to build Major League Cricket facility in Seattle-area park clears another hurdle

If you build it, will they come? Cricket enthusiasts in the Seattle region, whose numbers are tied to the growing population of tech workers, have been saying yes for years to the prospect of a dedicated facility for their sport.

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A list of startups in Seattle building crypto, blockchain, and Web3 technologies

Crypto. Blockchain. Web3. These are some of the hottest trends in tech.

Surprise: Amazon spent less than $500M on M&A in 2021, one of its lowest totals in recent years

Amazon joined other tech companies in a huge corporate buying spree last year, right?

How Zillow’s flexible work strategy is going, nearly two years later

Zillow Group knows a thing or two about homes, and during the past two years the Seattle-based online real estate company has emerged as a leader in enabling its employees to work from theirs — or from anywhere else they want.

World’s widest airplane flexes its landing gear during Stratolaunch’s fourth test flight

Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen a decade ago, conducted a full test of the landing gear on its mammoth aircraft.

Native American tribes, wild cat conservation groups use tech to help study and save cougars

A young cougar is hardwired to leave mom and venture out to establish a new territory.

In Seattle and across U.S., tech is gobbling up office space, even as remote and hybrid work takes hold

Even as companies and employees continue to grapple with what the future of work will look like, and where that work will be performed, the technology sector has been gobbling up office space in the Seattle region and across the country.

‘Intersection of innovation’: Why top tech VC firms are betting big on life science startups

Machine learning, data science and other computational methods are wielded by a growing number of biopharma startups to find new drug targets, design new therapeutics, and support their testing.

Web3 trends to watch: New apps, new consumer behavior, and a massive talent migration

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Maria Gilfoyle and Chris Picardo, investors with Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group.

Review: The real star feature of Valve’s Steam Deck is its price tag

The Steam Deck is a useful, versatile piece of gaming equipment with a lot of potential.

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