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 June 7, 2020.
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Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job
Follow-up: Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals. … Read More
5 trillion bytes a day: SpaceX engineers flash some facts about Starlink satellites
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation is still deep into testing mode, but it’s already generating 5 trillion bytes of data on a daily basis and getting software updates on a weekly basis. … Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos posts customer’s racist message, calls him a ‘customer I’m happy to lose’
As part of its vaunted leadership principles, Amazon likes to say it starts with the customer and works backwards to shape its business and products. … Read More
Data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation
Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing is aiming to go public. … Read More
Blocked from Google project, former AWS VP tells Amazon, ‘this is not right and don’t do this to your other employees’
A judge has sided with Amazon on a preliminary issue in its dispute with a former Amazon Web Services marketing executive, preventing him from reviewing and editing speeches for the Google Cloud Next conference in his new role with the rival technology company. … Read More
Instacart threatens to pull out of Seattle if new hazard pay law passes
Instacart said it may not be able to continue operating in Seattle if a law requiring hazard pay for delivery workers passes next week. The grocery delivery company warned customers about the “unconstitutional legislation” in an email urging them to write to the Seattle City Council in opposition to the bill. … Read More
Five years after Pluto encounter, New Horizons probe does a far-out parallax experiment
NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient mariners, but from a vantage point those mariners could only dream of. … Read More
Coronavirus projections converge amid concerns about a pandemic resurgence
Dueling projections for the course of the COVID-19 pandemic are converging on a narrower range of estimates for this summer, as expected, but the longer-term outlook doesn’t call for coronavirus infections to fade away quickly. … Read More
Shares of Bill Gates-backed online used car seller Vroom double on first day of trading
Bill Gates’ private investment vehicle is one of the largest shareholders in Vroom, a tech-fueled online used car seller that went public on Tuesday. … Read More
Coolest thing we’ve seen this week? This drone video of ‘Black Lives Matter’ street art in Seattle
Photographers on the ground have captured some gripping and historic images during the protests that have swept across the country in recent weeks. … Read More
