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Bump in the boom: Seattle growth slows as city falls out of top 10 fastest-growing big cities in U.S.

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GoodShip, a freight network logistics startup led by Convoy vets, raises $8M

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Bump in the boom: Seattle growth slows as city falls out of top 10 fastest-growing big cities in U.S.

by Kurt Schlosser on May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 at 9:27 am

Seattle’s population growth suffered a bit of a bump in the boom as the city fell out the top 10 fastest-growing big cities in the country, according to new U.S.… Read More

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Seattle startup Nexme to be acquired by new real estate services company Finaya

by Taylor Soper on May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 at 8:45 am

Nexme, a Seattle-based startup that helps streamline tours for prospective homebuyers, announced Thursday it will be acquired by Finaya, a new real estate services company out of Silicon Valley. Terms… Read More

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Ex-Seattle Storm star Sue Bird teams with Coinbase to donate $25K to nonprofit Techbridge Girls

by Kurt Schlosser on May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 at 2:45 pm

Retired Seattle Storm star Sue Bird is teaming with cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase to donate $25,000 to Techbridge Girls, a nonprofit that promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) opportunities… Read More

AI travel planner tool from Alaska Airlines shows potential future of airfare search

by Taylor Soper on May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 at 11:30 am

AI is already changing the way people search for information online and a bigger shift could be imminent. Google this week revealed more details about its vision for AI-generated search… Read More

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Baird Capital president offers startups a glimmer of hope: ‘The market’s coming your way’

by Todd Bishop on May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 at 10:45 am

It has been a rough couple of years for startup founders, emerging from the pandemic only to find themselves in the grips of one of the toughest markets for venture… Read More

Microsoft’s carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions

by Lisa Stiffler on May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 at 9:31 am

In 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious commitment to make its operations carbon negative within a decade, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits each year. But four years… Read More

Nothing to see here, Amazon tells court in response to FTC’s complaints about Signal messages

by Todd Bishop on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 8:16 pm

At a company known for putting its most important ideas and strategies into comprehensive six-page memos, quick messages between executives aren’t the place for meaningful business discussions. That’s one of… Read More

This is 40? Bill Gates crams into recreated Harvard dorm for Mark Zuckerberg’s milestone birthday

by Kurt Schlosser on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 3:44 pm

Bill Gates left Harvard to start Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on Facebook. But the two tech moguls made it back to school for a reunion… Read More

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First crewed mission for Boeing’s Starliner faces additional delay due to helium leak

by Alan Boyle on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm

The first-ever crewed flight test of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi has been rescheduled for no earlier than May 21 to give Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance extra time to… Read More

Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down

by Taylor Soper on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 2:24 pm

— Baskar Sridharan, a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and… Read More

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WTIA names 39 startups participating in its 11th Founder Cohort

by Kurt Schlosser on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 11:34 am

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the selection Tuesday of 39 startups for the 11th iteration of its WTIA Founder Cohort. Part of the WTIA Startup Program, the Founder… Read More

‘She’s going to be a bigger deal’: What’s next for Melinda French Gates

by Lisa Stiffler on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 3:02 pm

Melinda French Gates is walking away from a 2,000-employee philanthropy with assets totaling more than $75 billion. But some say her departure from the Gates Foundation, announced Monday, could unlock… Read More

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Blue Origin sets the date for its first crewed suborbital space trip in 21 months

by Alan Boyle on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 10:57 am

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has set the date for the long-delayed start of its next chapter in the history of spaceflight. Six spacefliers are scheduled to take a… Read More

Bay Area investor Vivek Ladsariya moves to Seattle, joins Pioneer Square Labs as managing director

by Taylor Soper on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 9:41 am

Seattle’s venture capital ecosystem is getting some fresh Bay Area talent with the addition of Vivek Ladsariya, a veteran investor who recently relocated from Silicon Valley to take a new… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky steps down; senior exec Matt Garman named AWS CEO

by Todd Bishop on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 at 7:35 am

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to lead the cloud giant, according to an internal memo from… Read More

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Longtime CEO to leave Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company

by Todd Bishop on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 at 3:52 pm

Bill Hilf, the veteran tech executive and longtime CEO of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company, formerly known as Vulcan Inc., is stepping down after more than seven years.… Read More

Allen Institute and Seattle Children’s to study inflammatory bowel disorder in search of cure

by Kurt Schlosser on May 13, 2024May 14, 2024 at 9:42 am

The Allen Institute for Immunology, a division of the Seattle-based Allen Institute, is teaming with Seattle Children’s Research Institute to launch a study aimed at understanding the origins of inflammatory… Read More

Melinda French Gates resigning as co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

by Kurt Schlosser on May 13, 2024May 14, 2024 at 11:23 am

Melinda French Gates announced Monday that she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle-based philanthropic organization she started with her ex-husband in 2000. In… Read More

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QuickBooks for legal docs: Seattle startup Aerial raises $2M to help companies organize key data

by Kurt Schlosser on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 at 8:14 am

Seeking to untangle the mess of documents and data that companies hold onto and wade through, Seattle startup Aerial raised $2 million for its AI-powered answer to unstructured business data… Read More

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As AI use surges, tech companies race to secure clean energy and preserve climate goals

by Lisa Stiffler on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 at 8:08 am

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving new demand for cloud computing infrastructure operated by tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft, which are investing billions of dollars each year… Read More

Kyndryl acquires Seattle-based cloud migration company Skytap

by Taylor Soper on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 at 3:40 pm

New York-based IT infrastructure services giant Kyndryl announced Monday that it acquired Skytap, a Seattle-based company founded 17 years ago that sells cloud migration software. Terms of the deal were… Read More

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Bump in the boom: Seattle growth slows as city falls out of top 10 fastest-growing big cities in U.S.

Seattle startup Nexme to be acquired by new real estate services company Finaya

Best Trucking EDI for Carriers 2024

Ex-Seattle Storm star Sue Bird teams with Coinbase to donate $25K to nonprofit Techbridge Girls

AI travel planner tool from Alaska Airlines shows potential future of airfare search

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Allen Institute and Seattle Children’s to study inflammatory bowel disorder in search of cure

Melinda French Gates resigning as co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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