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T-Mobile-Sprint mega-merger clears U.S. security hurdle, with more approvals to go
Amazon employees flex shareholder muscle to push for climate change plan
Latest game for Magic Leap AR headset gives a taste of device’s potential mass-market appeal
Hands-on with Magic Leap One Creator Edition headset and a peek inside the company’s secretive Seattle outpost
How will venture capital change in 2019? PitchBook makes 6 predictions
Report: SpaceX raising $500M to get Starlink satellite service off the ground
Indeed job search engine scoops up big new Seattle space, doubling presence with major office deal
AI-focused tech studio Hypergiant acquires Seattle-based app developer Black Pixel
LinkedIn finds Gen Z workers put more emphasis on mastering ‘hard’ skills than learning ‘soft’ skills
Amazon’s year on the Go: Ninth store opens as customers and company embrace walk-out tech
Farout! Astronomers identify the most distant known object in our solar system
Xbox One gets its own keyboard and mouse: First look at Razer’s new peripheral for Microsoft console
Tech Moves: Voyager Capital adds new partner in Canada; Nick Hughes embarks on Founders Live world tour
Boeing’s board boosts dividend by 20 percent and expands buyback program
Tech concentration in big cities is growing, leaving rural America behind, study finds
‘Fresh Prince’ star suing makers of ‘Fortnite’ for stealing his ‘Carlton Dance’ moves for video game
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture will send science to space on 10th suborbital flight
Boeing and Brazil’s Embraer set terms for commercial (and defense) joint ventures
Skytap cuts 25 marketing jobs amid shift to selling its cloud services through partners
‘State of Startups’ survey: Founders sound off on fundraising, biases, blockchain, China and more
‘Spam’ bomb threats at schools and businesses nationwide demand Bitcoin ransom payments
NYC Council grills Amazon over HQ2: ‘You’re worth $1 trillion. Why do you need our $3 billion?’
Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud
Watching the Seattle Seahawks win is fun again — especially with these viral videos on Twitter
Retro software softwear: Microsoft shows off a Windows 95 ‘ugly sweater’ and fans want it now
How this ex-Amazon manager turned $300 into a fast-growing startup without outside investment
Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage
Topgolf to Seattle? High-tech sports entertainment company proposes facility in Renton
Seattle’s Pure Watercraft set to deliver on electric outboard motors, with a new boost in battery pack
Microsoft holiday ad captures joy of video games and inclusion as boy uses Xbox Adaptive Controller
Compass hiring 100 engineers for West Coast hub in Seattle, invading Zillow and Redfin’s turf
Apple to top 1,000 employees in Seattle, add new site in city as part of broader national expansion
Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020
Microsoft tops Forbes ‘Just 100’ list of most responsible companies
Home security company Canary sued for alleged bait-and-switch tactic over $10/month fee
Trump thanks Apple’s Tim Cook for jobs expansion, but where’s the love for Jeff Bezos and HQ2?
Goodreads reveals best books of 2018 with more than 5 million votes across 21 categories
With JavaScript support, Salesforce wants to make it easier for developers to build apps on its platform
Artist mixes real photographs and his vision of deep space to create an otherworldly Instagram feed
Robotics manufacturing firm Bright Machines expands to Seattle, hires senior Amazon engineering leader
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