Full memo: Microsoft to cut 10k jobs, about 5% of workforce, and take $1.2B restructuring charge

Citing a need to "align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that the company will cut 10,000 jobs between now and the end of March. The layoffs represent about 5% of Microsoft's workforce of m … | Continue reading


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Clippers owner Ballmer gives impassioned speech at NBA preseason game in Seattle

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Amazon vacuums up iRobot, critics call for limitations on Big Tech deals

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Tom Alberg, 1940-2022: Early Amazon investor, champion of Pacific Northwest tech

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Amazon sheds record 99k employees after overstaffing warehouses

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Richard Tait, 1964-2022: 'Cranium' inventor and serial entrepreneur

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New display at Detroit airport shows something different to every viewer

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Beanless coffee startup Atomo raises $40M, begins online sales

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Biotech startups join AWS and others in open-source project to design proteins

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‘2nd Life’ creator shares lessons learned from one of world’s first metaverses

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AWS Snow on ISS

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You shouldn’t try to host your own email (2015)

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Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan (2011)

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Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100T

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Convoy, which just raised $260M, lays off 7% of workforce

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Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, disclose salary ranges

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Former Amazon Chief Dave Clark Lands at Flexport as CEO

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HoloLens leader Alex Kipman to leave Microsoft after report on ‘toxic’ behavior

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Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can help rate of asteroid discovery

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Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash (2016)

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Ex-Amazon engineers put heads together to create ‘Tandem Shower’

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1 in 5 Video Conference Calls Bad, 40% of Participants Disengaged

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Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture building digital vault for 80k collectibles

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Microsoft exec Charlie Bell calls on industry to learn lessons of the early web

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Amazon opens Community Banana Stand at Seattle HQ to give away free fruit (2015)

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Ohio ad campaign targets Seattle ‘tech bros’

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Tech workers with Ukrainian roots help build website to ease donation process

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Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime

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‘Silenced No More’ bill targeting NDAs passes in Washington state

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Zain Nadella, 1996-2022: Microsoft CEO’s son remembered

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MSFT detected destructive cyberattacks against Ukraine before Russian invasion

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Microsoft employees will return to a campus in transformation

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Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

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Amazon profits nearly double to $14.3B

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Amazon raises price of Prime membership by $20 to $139/year

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How Homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise

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Approval Voting will be on the Ballot in Seattle in 2022

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AI2 releases demo of question-answering model it claims outperforms GPT-3

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AI protein folding discovery wins ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ award

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13% of December 8 Seattle cases were Omicron

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Yelp and Groupon battle over non-compete law in Seattle

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Seattle Will Soon Have an NFT Museum

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Microsoft CEO sells half his stock, weeks before WA state implements gains tax

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares for a sum of more than $285 million, according to a regulatory… | Continue reading


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Blue Origin spaceflier Glen de Vries dies in New Jersey plane crash

after taking a suborbital space trip alongside Star Trek actor William Shatner, medical-technology entrepreneur Glen de Vries has died in a plane crash. | Continue reading


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Why the iBuying Algorithms Failed Zillow

Just because a business process can be automated, doesn't necessarily mean it should be automated. And maybe — just maybe — there are components of business that are not better served with AI… | Continue reading


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How the ‘Dune’ saga parallels the real science of Oregon’s dunes

The science fiction in “Dune” has plenty of parallels to the science surrounding the Oregon coast’s dunes, where Frank Herbert drew inspiration for his novels. | Continue reading


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‘I got a beer in 8 seconds’: Testing Amazon’s cashierless tech at an NHL game

Grabbing a bite or a drink at a Seattle sporting event without waiting in line is now a reality. Amazon's cashierless technology made its debut this week inside the new Climate Pledge Arena. | Continue reading


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Alaska Airlines Launches Investment Arm to Support Goal of Net-0 Carbon Emission

Alaska Airlines on Monday announced the launch of Alaska Star Ventures to invest in new aviation technologies as part of the airline’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. | Continue reading


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