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 Sept. 15, 2019.
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Most popular stories on GeekWire
Heavily funded real estate startup Compass moves in on Amazon with big new Seattle tech center
From the outside, it would make total sense for New York-based real estate brokerage and tech company Compass to put its new West Coast engineering hub in Seattle, vs. … Read More
IBM sues Zillow, accuses the real estate giant of building key features using Big Blue’s tech
IBM filed a lawsuit against Zillow this week, accusing the real estate giant of piggybacking off its patented technology to build key parts of its home value estimation and search features. … Read More
Why Microsoft is buying back $40B in stock
Microsoft is putting some of its piles of cash to work, authorizing a plan to re-purchase up to $40 billion in shares in one of the biggest stock buybacks in the company’s history. … Read More
Ex-Amazon, Google managers reveal new grocery tech startup powered by smart shopping cart
Shariq Siddiqui and Umer Sadiq thought Amazon Go was amazing. … Read More
Today is ‘Career Day’ at Amazon, and they’re really, really excited to meet you
Amazon is hosting a ‘Career Day’ on Tuesday across six cities — Seattle, Arlington, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Nashville — in a bid to fill more than 30,000 job openings. … Read More
Lime shutters LimePod, raising questions about viability of free-floating car-sharing model
Car-sharing is stalling in Seattle. Lime is shuttering LimePod, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday, marking the second closure of a free-floating car-sharing service in Seattle in two months. … Read More
Review: Netflix documentary on Bill Gates reveals chaos, determination and love ‘Inside Bill’s Brain’
In his relentless pursuit to try to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems around sanitation, disease eradication and climate change, Bill Gates is practically robotic in his quest for information and in his inability to give up. … Read More
Seattle plans minimum wage and new tax on Uber and Lyft, adding to ride-hailing’s regulatory woes
It’s been a rough month for ride-hailing companies, and Seattle is about to put another bump in the road. … Read More
Report: Walmart and Oracle among secret funders behind ‘grassroots’ campaign to blast Amazon
Peruse through the social media feed and website of the Free & Fair Markets Initiative, and it’s clear that the “nonprofit watchdog” has Amazon in its crosshairs. … Read More
‘Our biggest competitor is paper’: Mapping startup Unearth lands $7M from Vulcan and Madrona
Unearth Technologies is front-and-center on the map of the Seattle startup scene. … Read More