Today’s featured stories Amazon is staffing up in these HQ2 finalist cities as second headquarters decision nears ‘Alexa, start Halo’: Microsoft adds Alexa and Cortana voice commands for Xbox One… Read More
It has been a year since Amazon surprised and captivated the world by announcing plans to open a second headquarters equal to the first. The news made quite a racket,… Read More
It has been almost a year since Amazon surprised the world with plans for a second North American headquarters, with no word yet about where it will end up. But… Read More
Today’s featured stories Redfin CEO warns of slowing national real estate market, as frustrated buyers are sitting out Seattleites are most likely to move to these Amazon HQ2 cities —… Read More
Nick Hanauer was the first outside investor in Amazon and he has watched the company transform its hometown, Seattle, over the past decade. The venture capitalist and activist has witnessed… Read More
Amid a steady drumbeat of attacks from President Trump that probably don’t make Amazon feel particularly loyal to the leader of the United States, new statistics have emerged that paint… Read More
Bryan Copley remembers “the day that the last single-family residence in South Lake Union was bulldozed.” The CityBldr CEO has lived in the same Seattle neighborhood Amazon calls home for… Read More
Texas is open for business, according to a new report from CNBC evaluating the economic climate of each state in the nation. Researchers scored each of the 50 states on… Read More
More than 2,000 GeekWire readers told us which of the 20 cities in the running for Amazon’s second headquarters they would live in — and the answer was a surprise.… Read More
In Amazon’s remarkable second headquarters competition, talent is the name of the game. That’s why we want to find out which city in the running for Amazon HQ2 has the… Read More
Three days after the Seattle City Council passed a head tax on large businesses, the editorial board of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, thousands of miles away, made the extraordinary decision to weigh… Read More
If Amazon chooses Washington, D.C., or its Virginia or Maryland suburbs for its second headquarters, Amazon employees transferring to the new site would face a life-changing experience. As someone who… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stylish Italian restaurant Masseria is easy to miss, hidden between a construction site and an industrial lot in D.C.’s Union Market district. But if you were… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ history of supporting gay and transgender rights has many speculating that his company’s second headquarters will land in an LGBT-friendly city. A new report from The… Read More
Activists from Chicago to Atlanta held demonstrations and town halls Wednesday to demand more transparency from their cities, as local leaders try to land Amazon HQ2. Twenty cities are in… Read More
Boston officials agreed to give Amazon $5 million in tax breaks if the Seattle e-commerce giant brings 2,000 jobs and occupies most or all of a new office building in… Read More
Government incentives and tax credits face new scrutiny, driven in-part by Amazon’s wishlist as it searches for a city to plant its second headquarters. The company has a preference for… Read More
Amazon is on tour. The Seattle tech titan is visiting the 20 cities competing for its second headquarters, collecting data and touring potential sites for the project to inform the company’s… Read More
Pittsburgh officials are pushing back on a ruling demanding the city release its proposal for Amazon’s second headquarters. Late Friday afternoon, the city and Allegheny County appealed a decision by… Read More
The center-right millennial advocacy group, Generation Opportunity, is targeting Amazon in a new ad that will run in the U.S. cities vying for the company’s second headquarters. The ad criticizes… Read More
Another day, another Amazon HQ2 analysis. This time, researchers at Hamilton Place Strategies, an analytic PR consultancy, crunched the numbers and found Washington, D.C. the most likely city to land… Read More
Ever wondered what it’s like to be the richest person on the planet? Here’s your chance to find out (sort of). GateHouse Media, a publisher of local news publications, created… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Rich Fitzgerald is confident he can forge a mutually beneficial partnership between Amazon and Pittsburgh if the region wins the tech giant’s second headquarters, but the Allegheny County… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Economic development officials around the country are competing for Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters, which promises 50,000 jobs to the chosen city, but the massive corporate project doesn’t… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Seattleites like to point to the San Francisco Bay Area as a case study in problems to avoid: skyrocketing housing prices, traffic congestion, and economic inequality. Well, look… Read More
Amazon’s private meeting with Seattle leaders is coming into focus. The Feb. 9 roundtable will convene Amazon executives and city officials for breakout sessions on four topics, according to an agenda for… Read More
PITTSBURGH — This city punches above its weight in the innovation economy, but Pittsburgh is still working to compete on the level of larger tech hubs like Boston, Seattle, and… Read More
PITTSBURGH — What the heck is with all the coverage from this place all of a sudden? We know that many GeekWire readers have been asking this question over the… Read More
PITTSBURGH — With bone-chilling temperatures dipping into the teens and a light dusting of snow on the ground, Pittsburgh’s bitter cold can freeze nose hairs in minutes. But then you… Read More
When Amazon narrowed the list of contenders for its second headquarters down to 20 earlier this month, some LGBT activists were surprised to find 11 cities in states without comprehensive… Read More