Washington state’s new capital gains tax collected nearly $900 million in its first year, according to the state’s Department of Revenue. With 3,765 returns filed, DOR reported capital gains collection… Read More
The White House announced Monday the designation of 31 technology hubs across the U.S. aimed at spurring innovation and job creation in clean energy, artificial intelligence, precision medicine, biotech and… Read More
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is laying down a bet on Microsoft’s long-running effort to create an industrial-scale quantum computer that takes advantage of the exotic properties of… Read More
The Seattle area was already experiencing a massive homelessness, mental health, and economic disparity crisis prior to COVID-19 hitting. The pandemic simply exacerbated the issues. But even though the region… Read More
The Office of the Washington State Auditor is investigating a security incident which has compromised the personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Some 3,000 members of the public testified last week to comment on two of the most hot-button bills in the Washington legislature: whether or not to maintain… Read More
In the midst of one global disaster, Bill Gates is thinking about how to prevent the next. And while the world clearly wasn’t prepared to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read More
President-elect Joe Biden’s desire to hit the ground running on his first day in office is being aided by some Seattle-area professionals with tech backgrounds who have been named to… Read More
The protracted saga over a $10 billion Defense Department contract that pits Microsoft and Amazon against each other will be delayed even further. A federal judge on Friday gave the… Read More
Microsoft took aim at Amazon in a blog post Wednesday, accusing its rival of seeking an unfair advantage as the two companies lock horns over the Pentagon’s JEDI contract. The… Read More
A new report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found no evidence that President Donald Trump improperly influenced the award of a coveted military cloud contract to Microsoft over rival… Read More
Microsoft’s surprise victory last week in a protracted competition to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has some critics asking whether politics played any role in the outcome. Amazon was long… Read More
For years, Microsoft has been going to bat with the government over gag orders that prevent the cloud provider from notifying customers when law enforcement seizes their data. Despite a… Read More
What is the most popular password in the Pacific Northwest? Seahawks12, or some variation thereof, according to federal cybersecurity advisor Ronald Watters. That hackers can easily guess potential security codes… Read More
Microsoft will pay more than $25 million to settle a bribery probe by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission into foreign corruption allegations. DOJ and SEC… Read More
Amazon and Microsoft are locked in a battle for a massive contract to build cloud infrastructure for the Department of Defense. Amazon has long appeared to be the frontrunner in… Read More
For the past three years, Joseph Williams has been advising Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on tech policy. In that time he saw the number of spots for computer science students… Read More
With hundreds of federal agencies eager to modernize their processes, competition in government tech is hot. Take the Department of Defense’s JEDI contract, a $10 billion cloud migration project that… Read More
Amazon will continue to sell its facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies without oversight after two shareholder resolutions were voted down Wednesday at the company’s annual investor meeting. The… Read More
Amazon spent more money lobbying the government in 2018 than any year in the company’s history. The Seattle tech giant’s lobbying budget was $14.2 million last year, according to a… Read More
Here’s a pop quiz: Which of these public statements contained incorrect or misleading numbers? “Add that to Marco’s plan for a trillion dollars in new military spending, and you get… Read More
Between its corporate offices, fulfillment centers, Whole Foods stores, and other retail operations, Amazon now employs more than 600,000 people worldwide. That’s more than the entire population of Luxembourg. Similar… Read More
An Amazon executive did little to quell suspicion that the company sells its facial recognition software to federal immigration authorities during a public hearing Wednesday. Amazon public policy lead Brian… Read More
Microsoft is calling for increased government oversight on companies developing facial recognition technology, at a time when public concern about the relationship between tech and the public sector is growing.… Read More
Amazon received an unexpected delivery Monday afternoon when community leaders dropped off four big boxes of signatures urging the company to stop selling image recognition technology to law enforcement agencies.… Read More
After meetings with Ireland’s prime minister and the American Petroleum Institute, President Trump on Thursday will sit down with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The White House posted Trump’s public schedule… Read More
Bill Gates believes the world’s biggest tech companies are “absolutely” behaving in a manner that risks major government intervention. The former Microsoft CEO told Axios as much in an interview… Read More
Internet Association — which lobbies on behalf of top tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Airbnb and Uber — is setting up a Seattle outpost. Internet Association is anchored in… Read More
The tech industry is breathing a sigh of relief this morning because the U.S. Senate has ditched its plan to tax stock options and restricted stock units when they vest… Read More
Seattle may hold first place when it comes to the number of cranes dotting the skyline, but you aren’t likely to see any of its political leaders waving that trophy… Read More