Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, are donating $10 million to With Honor, a cross-partisan, veteran-focused super PAC. The donation, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is the Amazon… Read More
Facebook shares were down more than 7 percent Monday in the wake of damaging reports that Republican campaign operatives obtained data from 50 million users to inform the campaigns of… Read More
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has agreed to pay $55,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Seattle music-licensing firm Audiosocket, just as some Republican lawmakers are sizing him up for a potential Supreme Court… Read More
Sasha Pasulka has never worked on a political campaign. For the past four years, she’s held product marketing leadership roles at Tableau, a Seattle data software company. But she’s leaving… Read More
When it comes to swing states, Hillary Clinton is determined to catch ’em all. The presumptive democratic nominee is hosting a campaign event at a PokéStop in Lakewood, Ohio, just… Read More
Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid — and Barack Obama’s before him — proved the power of grassroots donations. But a wealthy minority still dominates the campaign finance game. That’s why ActiveGiver co-founders Saar… Read More
The Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG campaign for Seattle-area charities recovered from technical setbacks and surpassed its $20 million goal, with the help of matching grants. Donations via GiveBIG’s website totaled $16.3 million… Read More
It’s not easy putting together a one-day viral marketing campaign in three cities that involves cute kittens, customized cupcakes and seven months of planning. But that’s exactly what Seattle-based humor… Read More
For the second year in a row, Microsoft employees eclipsed the $100 million mark in charitable donations, raising $105 million for nearly 19,000 nonprofit organizations. The announcement comes nearly four… Read More
Gas Powered Games unplugged its Kickstarter campaign for ‘WIldman‘ this afternoon with four days left and more than $500,000 to raise. We’ve been reporting for the past month about how CEO Chris Taylor… Read More
REDMOND, WASH. — Before he began another exciting week running Microsoft, a young Bill Gates sat down at a Sunday evening dinner with the folks and heard a question from his… Read More
Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” campaign was originally launched as a counterpoint to Apple, embracing the phrase from the Mac maker’s commercials as a point of pride for Windows PC users.… Read More