Seattle mayor forms student internship program with Amazon, Expedia and other employers Two of Seattle’s biggest tech companies are signing onto a new paid internship program for college students launched by Mayor… Read More
Demolition set to begin on Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct — watch it fall with web cams and more The Seattle snowpocalypse may have slightly delayed the start of the demolition of the now-closed Alaskan Way Viaduct, but there’s… Read More
Game review: Explore and colonize other worlds in ‘Astroneer’ … if you can get past the learning curve Even after spending the better part of 12 hours exploring it, I still don’t quite feel like I have a… Read More
Amazon’s new East Coast hubs among the worst US cities for traffic If all goes according to plan, Amazon employees will be able to choose between the company’s Seattle headquarters two new… Read More
Downtown Seattle Association CEO: Tech industry ‘unfairly blamed’ for housing crisis Downtown Seattle has added 85,000 jobs since 2010, and nine out of 10 of new jobs in the city are technology-related.… Read More
Say snow more? Weather guru Cliff Mass predicts ‘absolutely classic’ storm could hit Seattle region The snow that fell on the Seattle region at the beginning of this week managed to mess with commutes, work… Read More
Amazon HQ2’s future in New York City uncertain as politicians butt heads New York leaders who spent a year courting Amazon HQ2 are suddenly grappling with the possibility that the project they… Read More
La Marzocco’s new high-tech espresso machine respects the human touch and wows coffee geeks When it comes to coffee culture in Seattle, it takes a special level of innovation to generate a buzz. On… Read More
Snow falls on Seattle and the best images and videos land on social media A rare snowstorm hit the Seattle area Sunday night and into Monday morning. As temperatures fell and a brisk wind… Read More
Seattle tech leaders push for more middle-income housing to ‘move the needle’ on affordability Tech and business leaders in the Seattle region are proposing a new plan to build middle-income housing and alleviate the… Read More
Federal court in Seattle will disclose surveillance records when investigators access data Privacy advocates are celebrating an agreement reached between U.S. attorneys, a federal court in Seattle, and the local newspaper The… Read More
The app that helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get elected is spreading to progressive campaigns across the country Shaun Scott was chatting with a Lyft driver in Seattle recently when the conversation turned — as so many do… Read More
After 2 years, Paul Allen-founded Upstream Music Fest and Summit ‘taking a break in 2019’ The Upstream Music Fest and Summit, created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a way to showcase diverse… Read More
Seattle mayor taps City of Ottawa’s CIO as chief technology officer Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to nominate Saad Bashir as the city’s new chief technology officer to oversee a massive… Read More
It’s ‘Paul G. Allen Day’ today as Seattle mayor issues proclamation in honor of late Microsoft co-founder The love for Paul Allen continues in his hometown as Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan proclaimed Friday, Jan. 18, to be… Read More
Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis? The politics of private companies taking on public issues Big tech companies are stepping in to help solve the housing crunch in the face of mounting frustration from their… Read More
Q&A: What Microsoft President Brad Smith hopes to accomplish with new $500M housing fund Over the past decade, the Seattle area has been adding jobs much faster than housing, resulting in much more demand… Read More
Seattle’s historic Smith Tower and an Amazon-occupied building sell to Goldman Sachs affiliate as part of $710M deal Smith Tower, the oldest high-rise in Seattle, has a new owner. The iconic 104-year-old building sold to an affiliate of… Read More
Microsoft commits $500M to address affordable housing and homelessness in the Seattle region Microsoft is dedicating $500 million to fund construction of affordable homes and homeless services in the Seattle region in an effort… Read More
Beating Wikipedia by 2 years, Seattle’s HistoryLink remains an innovative online encyclopedia Wikipedia was a groundbreaking initiative when it went live on Jan. 15, 2001. But a Seattle-based project called HistoryLink actually launched… Read More
Seattle left off Zillow’s hottest housing markets ranking as real estate slowdown continues Seattle’s booming tech sector helped push the city to the title of the nation’s hottest housing market for close to… Read More
Good night, viaduct: Watch our final voyage over Seattle’s favorite elevated freeway It was just after 9 p.m. and there we were in Tukwila, having just finished a soccer match. Should we… Read More
Days before Seattle viaduct closes forever, experts discuss how new tunnel is safest spot during quake The Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle may have been the place where a lot of us liked to be during… Read More
Seattle officials visit New York with warnings about Amazon: ‘They thought they could bury us’ Two Seattle lawmakers traveled to New York to share war stories from their battles with Amazon to a group of… Read More
Here are the winners and (mostly) losers of Seattle tech stocks in 2018 Whew! Stocks were all over the place in 2018. Things were going well in late summer, but by fall the… Read More
Nirvana not smiling after filing lawsuit against designer Marc Jacobs over ‘Bootleg Grunge’ shirt Just when you thought 25 years might be enough time for mainstream fashion designers to forget they ever tried to… Read More
Year in pictures: Amazon’s amazing growth, SpaceX blasts off, the passing of Paul Allen and more 2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing… Read More
How Fred Hutch spinout LabKey bootstrapped its way to compete in health care’s big data Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get… Read More
Why Filld shut down mobile fueling in Seattle as it wrestles with fire marshals across the country A few months after launching a pilot in Seattle, mobile fueling startup Filld hit a roadblock. On July 25, the… Read More
Indeed job search engine scoops up big new Seattle space, doubling presence with major office deal Indeed, the online job search engine, has leased a huge new office space in a flashy new tower under construction… Read More
