1:39 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences1:39 PM PDT ProfoundBio, led by Seagen veterans and co-located in China and Seattle, raises $55M
1:15 PM PDT Geek Life1:15 PM PDT Clippy’s comeback? Microsoft tweet promises return of software assistant as an Office 365 emoji
12:03 PM PDT Philanthropy12:03 PM PDT Jeff Bezos donating $200M to National Air and Space Museum in historic Smithsonian gift
10:27 AM PDT Space10:27 AM PDT Blue Origin shares multimillion-dollar spaceship ticket proceeds with 19 charities
10:02 AM PDT Microsoft10:02 AM PDT With Windows 365, Microsoft realizes its vision for Cloud PCs, streaming its OS to any device
8:00 AM PDT Cloud Tech8:00 AM PDT Microsoft to drop commercial marketplace fees to 3% (from 20%) in latest dig at platform rivals
7:01 AM PDT Podcast Bezos, Branson and the billionaire space race: What to watch when Amazon’s founder blasts off
7:00 AM PDT Startups7:00 AM PDT The Seattle startup scene is sizzling with record funding, hiring surge, 12 unicorns
5:56 AM PDT Amazon5:56 AM PDT An evening with Kindle Vella: First impressions of Amazon’s new attempt to reimagine reading
5:42 PM PDT Space5:42 PM PDT Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper
5:22 PM PDT Amazon5:22 PM PDT Port of Seattle bans facial recognition tech by law enforcement; some private use remains permitted
5:01 PM PDT Real Estate5:01 PM PDT Facebook inks another lease in Seattle area, where it now has 7K employees and 3.3M square feet
2:59 PM PDT Startups2:59 PM PDT Meet the 4 new startups joining a fintech incubator run by BECU and UW in Seattle
11:13 AM PDT Geek Life11:13 AM PDT Amazon picks up 20 Emmy nominations including best drama nod for superhero series ‘The Boys’
10:58 AM PDT Startups10:58 AM PDT Techstars and Filecoin launching new accelerator out of Seattle for blockchain startups
10:58 AM PDT Space10:58 AM PDT USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design
10:21 AM PDT Amazon10:21 AM PDT Emails indicate Amazon’s use of force while seeking JEDI cloud contract, GOP lawmakers say
9:44 AM PDT Amazon9:44 AM PDT Seattle leads nation in ‘brain gain,’ adds tech jobs faster than any other big U.S. market over 5 years
9:38 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences9:38 AM PDT Cancer care and research in Pacific Northwest to be streamlined under proposed reorganization
8:38 AM PDT Tech8:38 AM PDT ZoomInfo will pay $575M to acquire conversation intelligence startup Chorus.ai
6:00 AM PDT Games6:00 AM PDT Sumo and Pipeworks open new Vancouver-based game studio, Timbre Games, led by EA vet
6:00 AM PDT Startups6:00 AM PDT Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform
5:00 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences5:00 AM PDT Seattle startup Truveta raises $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems
4:30 AM PDT Science4:30 AM PDT OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris
6:27 PM PDT Space6:27 PM PDT A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours
3:38 PM PDT Tech Moves3:38 PM PDT Tech Moves: DreamBox Learning appoints 5 execs; UW names new vice provost of research; more
2:00 PM PDT Games2:00 PM PDT How Penny Arcade is preparing for in-person PAX in Seattle, with lessons learned from virtual events
11:33 AM PDT Startups11:33 AM PDT Seattle startup AdaptiLab sells interviewing software to CoderPad as founders pursue new idea
11:17 AM PDT Tech11:17 AM PDT Seattle’s Barokas Communications acquired by NY’s Finn Partners after 23 years as indie tech PR firm
