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Articles from 2023

Washington state lawmakers seek to further curb drug prices as biotech leaders raise alarm

Lawmakers in Washington state are considering legislation that would give a governor-appointed board extra authority to curtail the price of… Read More

Database giant Snowflake closes deal to acquire tools from Mobilize.net

Snowflake closed its deal to acquire a suite of migration tools called SnowConvert from Bellevue, Wash.-based software maker Mobilize.net. Mobilize’s… Read More

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 12, 2023

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‘Ghostwriter’ in the machine: How this software developer is integrating AI into work and life

The headlines about problems with Microsoft’s Bing chatbot haven’t dulled Patrick Husting’s enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence. The software developer… Read More

Amazon’s new back-to-office policy is welcome news to small businesses around Seattle HQ

Inside a dog daycare business in Seattle’s South Lake Union on Friday, a handful of pups were scurrying around and… Read More

Amazon changes back-to-office policy, tells corporate workers to come in 3 days a week

Amazon wants its corporate and tech employees back in the office at least three days per week, CEO Andy Jassy… Read More

Band that took shot at ‘local villain’ Jeff Bezos during Seattle hockey game releases song

Three weeks after the Seattle band Who Is She? played during intermission of a Seattle Kraken game at Climate Pledge… Read More

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Washington state chips in $250K for First Mode’s zero-emission proving grounds

First Mode, the clean-energy company that was recently transformed from a Seattle startup into an Anglo American subsidiary, is getting… Read More

Redfin Q4 revenue drops 25% to $479M as company winds down home-flipping business

Redfin’s revenue fell 25% in the fourth quarter amid a housing market slowdown that has hampered its growth over the… Read More

Seattle Police union objected to use of body-cam analysis tech and alleges officers were ‘spied on’

The Seattle Police Department discontinued its use of an artificial intelligence platform designed to analyze body-cam footage because of pushback… Read More

Trucking startup Convoy lays off employees for third time in past year, will close Atlanta office

Seattle startup Convoy conducted its third round of layoffs over the past year and said it would close its Atlanta… Read More

What to do with dead batteries? Washington lawmakers consider plan to energize recycling

Batteries power all kinds of consumer goods, and their use is rapidly expanding. Seattle plans to ban gas-powered leaf blowers… Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Quantum

Get a reality check on quantum computing vs. ‘Quantumania’ in Marvel’s latest movie

Ant-Man may be getting small in Marvel’s latest superhero movie — but in the real world, quantum is getting big.… Read More

Zillow CEO says company is attracting talent at a ‘much greater rate’ thanks to flexible work model

Zillow Group is receiving four times as many applicants per job posting compared to 2019, thanks in part to its… Read More

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Microsoft now says AI-powered Bing chatbot is ‘not a replacement or substitute for the search engine’

“We think of it, humbly, as the next generation of search and browsing.” That was a comment by Yusuf Mehdi,… Read More

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More news outlets get caught up in nasty conversations with Bing chatbot over facts

It turns out we’re not the only ones getting into fact-checking fights with Bing Chat, Microsoft’s much-vaunted AI chatbot. Last… Read More

Lightfox, the Seattle-based mobile game developer behind ‘Knight’s Edge,’ raises $6M

Mobile gaming company Lightfox Games raised $6 million in fresh capital to help fuel development of a new game. CEO… Read More

Tech Moves: T-Mobile tech leader to retire; Curi Bio and CrowdCow appoint CEOs; and more

— Joe Heitzeberg is stepping down as CEO of CrowdCow, the Seattle-based meat and seafood marketplace he co-founded in 2015.… Read More

Zillow Group beats Q4 estimates with $435M in revenue

Zillow Group beat fourth quarter earnings expectations as it continues to navigate the housing market slowdown. The Seattle real estate… Read More

Seattle founder who sold company to Google says tech giant has ‘slowly ceased to function’

A former Google employee who just left the tech giant after three years says he witnessed a “gradual decay of… Read More

How this sales startup is using GPT-3 tech to boost lead qualification

The economic slowdown and tech layoffs have dealt a double blow to enterprise sales teams. Outreach CEO Manny Medina thinks… Read More

Brilliant Black Minds: Startup’s project backed by Serena Williams aims to break down barriers

As a middle school student in the small Mississippi town of Collinsville, Crystal Moore would spend lunch in her school’s… Read More

Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines… Read More

Scoop: Flyhomes acquires Loftium, combining two Seattle real estate tech companies

Flyhomes is broadening its suite of home-buying tools by acquiring the host-to-own platform Loftium in a Seattle startup real estate… Read More

Seattle-area police use adhesive GPS trackers to catch fleeing suspects, prevent high-speed chases

The Redmond Police Department implemented new GPS technology last month that has helped result in three arrests. The technology, called… Read More

Meta lawyer wants to build more public-private partnerships as he runs for Seattle City Council

Rob Saka, a University of Washington graduate, Air Force veteran and attorney who has worked for Microsoft and Meta, announced… Read More

Walmart says Seattle ‘remains core’ as retail giant closes 3 tech offices

Walmart is consolidating its tech office real estate footprint, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, closing hubs in Austin, Carlsbad,… Read More

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Blue Origin talks up technology that could eventually turn moon dirt into solar cells

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture isn’t just working on rockets and space stations: The Kent, Wash.-based company is also… Read More

‘Tableau has been killed by Salesforce’: Past and current Tableau employees gather at ‘Irish wake’

On an otherwise run-of-the-mill weeknight at Fremont Brewing near Lake Union in Seattle, the line for beer stretched past the… Read More

Lisa Brown, Washington state Dept. of Commerce director, will step down after 4 years 

Lisa Brown is departing her position as the director of commerce for Washington state, effective March 4. Gov. Jay Inslee,… Read More

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