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‘Innovation studio’ Ivy Softworks unveils first product Atlas, a search engine for your digital life
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New Alexa skill aims to cut food waste by offering storage advice and tips on what’s still OK to eat
Amazon opens up Alexa to commercial device makers with new developer tools
Health Tech Podcast: Insights from a former Amazon exec now driving innovation in healthcare
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Mark Cuban-backed Esports betting platform Unikrn looks to sell $100M in cryptocurrency
Top Republican strategist Frank Luntz questions Trump claim that Amazon is a job killer
Microsoft delays major Xbox One X title Crackdown 3 to 2018, leaving hole in launch lineup
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RealNetworks teams up with Chinese broadcaster CIBN to strengthen streaming offerings
Simple lays off 33 employees as top executives depart banking company
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Cloudflare drops protection of Daily Stormer as tech fallout from Charlottesville continues
Trump supporters converge on Seattle’s Lenin statue, shout ‘tear it down’ and debate passersby
Omeros looks to raise $70M in stock offering to fuel drug development pipeline
Microsoft President Brad Smith goes back to school to surprise math student who wrote him a letter
Amid outcry, Trump disbands two business councils – but tech is a separate issue
Obama post after Charlottesville is most liked tweet ever; Facebook bans white nationalist’s accounts
Time to pull down Seattle’s Lenin statue? Silicon Valley venture capitalist takes on relic’s place in wake of Charlottesville tragedy
Exclusive: Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise
Amazon hands out refunds for solar eclipse glasses that lack NASA’s approval
Elon Musk hails Dota 2 bot’s victory at The International, with OpenAI and Microsoft
New Mexico company licenses innovative solar panel technology from two Washington universities
How Strideline inked an NFL licensing deal and aims to be the ‘fastest athletic apparel company’
A look inside The Shop, the new hangout for car geeks rolled out by Seattle tech and restaurant vets
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Microsoft using artificial intelligence to teach a machine to stay aloft
‘Top Gun’ star Tom Skerritt takes aim at Hollywood, raises cash for new Seattle entertainment startup
Working Geek: Amazon manager MaryBeth Pecha and colleagues create card game to break down gender barriers
Bill Gates’ stake in Microsoft dips below 2% with $4.6 billion stock gift
Obama post after Charlottesville is most liked tweet ever; Facebook bans white nationalist’s accounts
Amazon shreds stock values with a whiff of competition: 5 industries feeling the heat from the tech giant
Trump supporters converge on Seattle’s Lenin statue, shout ‘tear it down’ and debate passersby
Got eclipse glasses? Here’s how to get ’em
Lessons from Togo: What F5’s new CEO learned about business and life growing up in Africa
Here are the fastest growing companies in the Pacific Northwest, according to Inc.’s annual list
A timeline of President Trump’s attacks against Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos
Vermouth takes on Yelp with new friend-based review app, with support from hoops star Sue Bird