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Starbucks is getting into the ‘NFT business,’ according to Howard Schultz

Frappuccinos, pumpkin spice lattes, and now … NFTs?

Amazon is No. 1 on LinkedIn’s annual ranking of top 50 companies where people want to work in U.S.

As it strives to be “Earth’s Best Employer,” Amazon will have to settle for “top U.S.

Tech Moves: USAFacts picks Microsoft and Amazon vet as CTO; Zillow CMO departs; and more

— Tanuja Korlepra, a former Amazon and Microsoft product management leader, has been named chief technology officer of USAFacts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based nonpartisan civic data initiative founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

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Amazon reserves up to 83 rocket launches for Project Kuiper broadband satellite constellation

Amazon has secured up to 83 launches on heavy-lift rockets to put more than 1,500 satellites into orbit for its Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation.

First-of-its-kind stormwater ‘heat map’ lights up pollutants fouling waters in Washington state

The COVID-19 pandemic has made us familiar with the idea of a deadly threat that spreads invisibly.

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Amazon and AWS join Blue Origin on Orbital Reef space station team

Amazon and Amazon Web Services are joining forces with Blue Origin, another company founded by Jeff Bezos, to support the rise of a commercial space station.

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Vote for Next Tech Titan: 5 Seattle companies on the verge of becoming a giant force

The Seattle startup scene has been sizzling, and there are several up-and-coming companies are headed on a path toward becoming industry giants.

Inside the AI2 Incubator: Microsoft co-founder’s unfinished legacy fuels quest for new AI startups

As a key figure in the PC revolution, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen understood the power of new technologies to create world-changing companies.

A franchise in disguise? Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners program will face a key legal test

Amazon “exercises near complete control” over the thousands of ostensibly independent companies that deliver packages for the e-commerce giant, a new lawsuit alleges, treating them as de facto franchisees without the legal protections that would come from such a designation.

Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is ... a three-way split.

With remote work here to stay and more apartments occupied, can downtown Seattle reinvent itself?

Seattle’s downtown has changed a lot since its early days, with sawmills making way for skyscrapers.

Tech Moves: Syndio hires managing director; Google travel vet returns to Expedia; ex-Adaptive CMO joins Freenome

— Ritu Mohanka, vice president of strategy & development EMEA at Glint (part of LinkedIn), is now the managing director and head of EMEA at Seattle startup Syndio.

Inside Bill Gates’ multi-faceted org that wants to help save the world from climate destruction

It started with a November 2015 announcement by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates along with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and more than two dozen other tech titans and billionaires.

‘Amazon, here we come,’ President Biden says in address to union leaders

Just days after the company was on the losing end of a historic union election, President Joe Biden issued a strongly worded jab at Amazon during an address to union leaders on Wednesday.

Microsoft and HPE put AI to the test on International Space Station … with gloves

Microsoft and HPE are teaming up with NASA to put artificial intelligence to work on orbital tasks, starting with checking spacewalkers' gloves for damage.

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