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 Feb. 20, 2022.
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Update: Slack, Peloton, and others recover from Monday morning outages
Update, 11 a.m. Feb. 22: Slack, Peloton and other services are recovering after a few hours of downtime.] Update 3:55 p.m. … Read More
Microsoft employees will return to a campus that’s in the midst of a massive transformation
REDMOND, Wash. — After working from home for more than two years, Microsoft employees returning to the company’s headquarters starting next week might not recognize the place. … Read More
Google’s Seattle waterfront campus sells for record price in sign of confidence in tech office market
Vulcan Real Estate sold the two-block, four building Google campus overlooking Seattle’s Lake Union for $802 million, a price of $1,260 per square foot that’s believed to set a new record for the city’s office market. … Read More
E-commerce startup Fabric, led by Amazon vets, raises $140M at $1.5B valuation to pursue ‘absurd’ market opportunity
Fabric, a Seattle-based e-commerce technology startup whose leadership team includes several former Amazon executives, announced a $140 million Series C funding round, led by SoftBank, at a valuation of about $1.5 billion. … Read More
Photos: Russell Wilson and Ciara take it to the ‘House’ and toast their first fashion store in Seattle
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and music superstar Ciara took it to the “House” on Tuesday night — The House of LR&C, actually — as they partied to celebrate the opening of their first fashion store. … Read More
Plan to build Major League Cricket facility in Seattle-area park clears another hurdle
If you build it, will they come? Cricket enthusiasts in the Seattle region, whose numbers are tied to the growing population of tech workers, have been saying yes for years to the prospect of a dedicated facility for their sport. … Read More
A list of startups in Seattle building crypto, blockchain, and Web3 technologies
Crypto. Blockchain. Web3. These are some of the hottest trends in tech. … Read More
Surprise: Amazon spent less than $500M on M&A in 2021, one of its lowest totals in recent years
Amazon joined other tech companies in a huge corporate buying spree last year, right? … Read More
How Zillow’s flexible work strategy is going, nearly two years later
Zillow Group knows a thing or two about homes, and during the past two years the Seattle-based online real estate company has emerged as a leader in enabling its employees to work from theirs — or from anywhere else they want. … Read More
World’s widest airplane flexes its landing gear during Stratolaunch’s fourth test flight
Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen a decade ago, successfully conducted a full test of the landing gear on its mammoth Roc carrier aircraft today. … Read More