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Sep 9, 2021, 8:30 AM

Seattle airport helping travelers avoid lines with mobile food ordering and delivery to gate via robot

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is using tech to make it easier to eat on the fly. A mobile food ordering service… Read More

Sep 9, 2021, 6:10 AM

Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka’s Panasonic venture debuts personal assistant service in Seattle

Yoky Matsuoka is known for her pioneering work in neurorobotics, assisting humans by connecting the central nervous system to the… Read More

Sep 8, 2021, 8:25 AM

Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment firm buying controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels

Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment LLC is acquiring a controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the company announced Wednesday.… Read More

Sep 7, 2021, 4:24 PM

Smartsheet revenue rises 44% to $131.7M; CEO touts work management software for hybrid world

Smartsheet beat expectations for its fiscal second quarter, reporting revenue of $131.7 million, up 44% year-over-year, and a non-GAAP loss… Read More

Sep 2, 2021, 10:35 AM

Leafly launches in-app marijuana ordering option after change to Apple’s App Store rules

Leafly this week launched a new feature in its iOS app that allows users to place marijuana orders for pickup,… Read More

Aug 31, 2021, 9:18 PM

WTIA sues state labor department over alleged nonpayment for tech apprenticeship program

The Washington Technology Industry Association has sued the state’s Department of Labor & Industries over what it claims was nonpayment… Read More

Aug 31, 2021, 9:10 AM

Howard Schultz funding online learning program for small businesses using CreativeLive platform

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is launching a free online learning program designed to help small businesses gain the necessary… Read More

Aug 27, 2021, 8:39 AM

T-Mobile apologizes for data breach; carrier will invest in cybersecurity to ‘transform our approach’

T-Mobile is taking lessons learned from its recent data breach that affected millions of customers and vowed to invest more… Read More

Aug 25, 2021, 8:51 AM

Alaska Airlines plane evacuated in Seattle after passenger’s Samsung cell phone catches fire

A cell phone fire in the cabin of an Alaska Airlines plane forced the emergency evacuation of passengers after the… Read More

Aug 24, 2021, 12:45 PM

Seattle-area tech exec gets 2 years in prison in $5.5M scheme to defraud COVID relief program

A Seattle-area tech executive who attempted to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans through the Paycheck Protection Program was sentenced… Read More

Aug 23, 2021, 1:38 PM

Amid Afghan evacuations, Seattle-area investor recounts the nightmare of Iran’s revolution, war

Code.org founder Hadi Partovi and his twin brother were only 6 years old during the Iranian Revolution when the Grand… Read More

Aug 23, 2021, 10:57 AM

Pushpay, which makes digital tools for churches, acquires streaming video startup Resi Media

Pushpay, a Redmond, Wash.-based tech platform that helps faith-based and nonprofit organizations, announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire… Read More

Aug 18, 2021, 8:23 AM

T-Mobile data breach: More than 47M current and former customers affected, carrier says

T-Mobile on Wednesday released more details about a “highly sophisticated cyberattack” that exposed data from more than 40 million former… Read More

Aug 18, 2021, 6:00 AM

Payscale acquires CURO, another compensation data provider

Payscale is hopping on the M&A train again. The Seattle-based compensation data company today announced the acquisition of CURO Compensation… Read More

Aug 17, 2021, 2:40 PM

Avalara nabs nearly $1B in debt securities to fuel growing tax compliance software business

Seattle-based Avalara is getting a large cash infusion as its business continues to benefit from the e-commerce boom and increasing… Read More

Aug 16, 2021, 9:02 PM

Agtech startup Dewey Scientific raises $3.2M to further advance cannabis industry innovations

Dewey Scientific, the Pullman, Wash.-based agtech startup that is leveraging genomics, data science and more to improve the quality and… Read More

Aug 16, 2021, 8:07 AM

T-Mobile confirms data breach, but unclear if hackers accessed customer info

Update: T-Mobile on Monday confirmed that “unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred” but it has not determined if personal customer… Read More

Aug 12, 2021, 10:07 AM

Gates offers $1.5B for carbon-cutting innovation if lawmakers enact public-private program

Bill Gates has pledged to invest $1.5 billion on joint projects with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to remove… Read More

Aug 11, 2021, 1:59 PM

Expedia Group pushes back its full return to the office to January 2022

This is starting to look like a trend: Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, has told employees that it’s… Read More

Aug 11, 2021, 11:25 AM

Nasdaq finalizes new board diversity rules — and some companies may have some explaining to do

The Nasdaq stock exchange this month received approval for new rules that encourage companies to appoint more diverse boards of… Read More

Aug 9, 2021, 1:50 PM

Rover’s business continues to bounce back in first earnings report as public company

Issuing its first earnings report as a public company, Rover reported gross bookings of $134 million in the second quarter,… Read More

Aug 6, 2021, 10:41 AM

Newly public, Rover pays off $8M PPP loan that helped pet-sitting company survive pandemic

Updated on Monday Aug. 9 with additional details. Not that long ago, Rover was on a very short leash. In… Read More

Aug 6, 2021, 8:59 AM

Seattle investment bank that helps buy and sell companies forms new SPAC to target ‘industry 4.0’

For the past 22 years, Cascadia Capital has helped dozens of healthcare, retail, technology and other companies find buyers. Now,… Read More

Aug 5, 2021, 2:14 PM

Expedia Group results improve but CEO sees ‘bumpy’ road ahead for global travel recovery

Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, posted improved results for the second quarter, but cautioned that the resurgence of… Read More

Aug 5, 2021, 1:48 PM

Redfin revenue soars 121% in second quarter as net loss grows on RentPath acquisition

Seattle real estate brokerage Redfin on Thursday posted second quarter revenue of $471 million, a jump of 121 percent over… Read More

Aug 5, 2021, 9:18 AM

Bill Gates calls meeting Jeffrey Epstein ‘huge mistake,’ addresses his past conduct at Microsoft

In a new interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night, Bill Gates called it a “huge mistake” to meet… Read More

Aug 3, 2021, 3:00 AM

Social media manager Hootsuite acquires conversational AI-platform Heyday for $48M

Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Heyday, a conversational AI platform, for… Read More

Aug 2, 2021, 6:17 AM

From hackathon to IPO: Pet sitting marketplace Rover is Seattle’s newest public company

It started as a simple pitch at a Seattle hackathon for a marketplace to facilitate matches between pet owners and… Read More

Aug 1, 2021, 9:00 AM

How Dance Church made a pandemic pivot and created a new online fitness subscription business

On a foggy Saturday morning earlier this month, I was among hundreds of people gathered at the Seattle Center lawn,… Read More

Jul 29, 2021, 8:00 AM

Washington state universities will lead AI research institutes funded by National Science Foundation

The University of Washington and Washington State University are adding artificial intelligence research institutes thanks to $40 million in funding… Read More

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