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 March 31, 2019.
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Exclusive: Amazon moving thousands of employees out of Seattle, relocating key division to nearby city
Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire. … Read More
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos finalize divorce; Amazon CEO keeps 75% of couple’s stock
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have finalized their divorce. … Read More
Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation
Amazon is joining the race to provide broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, newly uncovered filings show. … Read More
Why Amazon is pulling a giant team out of Seattle, and what it means for the tech giant’s home region
News that Amazon is shifting its worldwide operations team out of Seattle to nearby Bellevue, Wash., quickly ignited a debate in the region about the tech giant’s incredible growth and what the future holds. … Read More
Shark Tank’s billion-dollar blunder: How startup Ring went from TV rejection to Amazon acquisition
Back in 2013, Jamie Siminoff was the founder and chief inventor of a struggling video doorbell company who was pinning all the startup’s hopes on his appearance on Shark Tank. … Read More
Numbers Geek meets ‘Shark Tank’: Why this startup founder turned down Mark Cuban’s $30M deal
Thirty-million dollars. That number will forever be associated with our guest on this week’s Numbers Geek podcast, Arum Kang, co-founder and co-CEO of Coffee Meets Bagel. … Read More
Amazon’s big Bellevue move: Politicians, business leaders and real estate experts weigh in
News that Amazon plans to move several thousand employees out of Seattle to nearby Bellevue, Wash., in the next five years raises big questions about the future of the Seattle region. … Read More
April Fools’ Day roundup: T-Mobile, Convoy, REI, Google, Buzz Aldrin and other pranksters
OK, you asked for it. Well, actually no one asked for it. … Read More
Sweet! Scientists narrow down source of mysterious burst of methane on Mars
It may sound like an April Fool’s joke about flatulent aliens, but this is serious: The scientists behind the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter think they know where a smelly outburst of Martian methane came from. … Read More
Mayor Durkan says Amazon moving employees to Bellevue is ‘a good thing for Seattle’
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan seems unfazed by news that Amazon plans to shift thousands of jobs to Bellevue, Wash. … Read More