Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 1, 2018.
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Most popular stories on GeekWire
Pyrotechnics pros wire 10,000 pounds of explosives for Seattle’s big July 4 fireworks show
Pyrotechnics professionals worked under the warm Seattle sun on the 3rd of July in preparation for the big show that will light up the night sky on the 4th. … Read More
A passing front? Diane Bryant out as Google Cloud COO after 7 months
Former Intel executive Diane Bryant, who joined Google Cloud just last November to give some executive support to Diane Greene, is leaving the company. … Read More
Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner emerges at helm of secretive blockchain startup co-founded by former Myspace CTO
Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup led by veteran tech executives, GeekWire has learned. … Read More
Revealed: Amazon Go’s new Seattle location signals tech giant’s growing ambitions for checkout-free retail concept
Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company’s backyard, GeekWire has learned. … Read More
President Trump says Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post will be out of business in 7 years, calls it a ‘propaganda machine’ for Amazon
President Donald Trump is taking on Amazon and the news media once again, writing in a Tweet Saturday morning that The New York Times and The Washington Post will “both be out of business in 7 years!” He also called The Washington Post a “propaganda machine” for Amazon. … Read More
Microsoft’s massive campus refresh starts later this year, as tech giant picks architects and contractors for the job
Microsoft is one step closer to getting underway with the sweeping refresh of its Redmond, Wash. … Read More
Elon Musk sends Boring Company and SpaceX experts to Thai cave rescue effort
Billionaire techie Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers from SpaceX and the Boring Company to help with the increasingly desperate effort to rescue a dozen boys and their soccer coach from a waterlogged cave in Thailand. … Read More
Special Olympics open in Seattle with celebration of inclusion; Microsoft CEO applauds athletes’ spirit
The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games opened in Seattle on Sunday at the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium with a parade of athletes and musical performances and inspiring moments meant to showcase acceptance and inclusion. … Read More
Big Fish lands a new boss: Former EA and Zynga exec named president of casual games company
Former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive Jeff Karp is joining Big Fish Games as managing director and president, responsible for leading the Seattle-based casual games company under its second corporate parent in four years. … Read More
Microsoft Azure CTO: AI and machine learning “are going to transform every industry”
Now that the basic appeal of cloud computing has been established — compute and storage resources managed by your vendor instead of your employees — those cloud vendors are looking at higher-level services. … Read More