GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

An increasing number of companies are pledging to shrink their carbon footprints, including Microsoft’s vow to become carbon negative and Amazon’s promise to be net carbon zero. Reaching these goals will require investments in carbon-removal programs. Nori was featured in GeekWire’s Startup Spotlight in 2018.

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TM Forum

JULY 11, 2022

What are your company’s sustainability goals and how do you measure them? Our goal at Orange Poland is the same as the rest of Orange Group – to achieve net zero carbon by 2040 for both our own emissions (scopes 1+2) and those of our value chain (scope 3). are important in helping push all companies in the same direction.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Washington’s recent spate of devastating wildfires harkens back to 2018’s prolonged smokey haze in Seattle, as captured here over Puget Sound. It’s providing funding for companies before they’re generating revenue, and even before they have a product. VertueLab offers a variety of support for new companies.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2022

based software and cloud giant has wide-ranging environmental initiatives, the focus for many comes down to one number: How big was the company’s carbon footprint? Microsoft has vowed to be transparent in its climate efforts and company leaders waited only until the report’s third paragraph to acknowledge the sizeable increase.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Amazon founder has given out $398 million to organizations in 38 states since launching the fund in 2018. While the homelessness-related fund has publicly issued four rounds of grants, little has been said about the schools program. families experiencing homelessness. The fund is issuing $96.2 million to 32 organizations.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

The Redmond-based software and cloud company on Wednesday is launching a five-year initiative to help close the “disability divide” — or the gap between the resources and opportunities available to those with disabilities and those without. The company did not share the costs for these programs. of its workforce.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

Accolade CEO Raj Singh speaking at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. Accolade set the terms for its IPO on Wednesday as the health benefits platform aims to become the first Seattle-area company to go public in 2020. million shares at between $19 and $21, raising as much as $211 million and valuing the company at around $1 billion.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s the latest effort by a major tech company to address the inequities fueled by the booming tech economy. trillion, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world. The company posted $14.1 Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $186 billion.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The seismic data alone from this Discovery Program mission offers tremendous insights not just into Mars but other rocky bodies, including Earth.”. built the thruster system that guided the three-legged lander to its touchdown in November 2018 — plus thrusters for other phases of flight. billion, inclusive of net debt.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Another company is zooming onto Wall Street, signaling that the window for initial public offerings is opening up even amid a fragile period for the global economy. The 1,287-person company — led by co-founder and CEO Henry Schuck and originally known as DiscoverOrg — is starting trading today on Nasdaq under the ticker ZI.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Nearly a year after Tesla started testing its controversial “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) beta software with a select group of customers, the company’s CEO Elon Musk said he is aiming for a wider release by the end of September. The company actually began shipping FSD version 9 in July, but only to members of its early access program.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

However, the company says that the plant was back up to 90 percent production at the end of March, and is now back up to normal levels. Net profit for the quarter was up 46 percent to 7.1 billion) compared to the same quarter the previous year, resulting in its highest first quarter profit since 2018. trillion won (around $6.4

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

The Seattle real estate company posted its first quarter earnings report on Thursday with $191 million in revenue, up 73% and beating expectations of $178 million. Net loss per share came in at $0.64, lower than estimates of -$0.75. Glenn Kelman of Redfin at the 2018 State of Technology Luncheon in Seattle. GeekWire File Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. Less attention has been paid to Pivotal, the investment and incubation company that’s French Gates’ primary side gig.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2020

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. The Seattle real estate company laid off 7% of its staff and furloughed hundreds of agents in April as the COVID-19 outbreak began spreading. Redfin topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter , reporting $214 million in revenue, up 8%, and a net loss per share of $0.08.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

But today, Seattle’s shared bicycles have all but disappeared from city streets as mobility companies that were already losing money absorb the shock of the coronavirus crisis. We talked to transportation companies, city officials, and experts about what the future of micro-mobility looks like. A micro-mobility test lab.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Chinese EV startup Byton is halting operations for at least six months due to financial problems that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has confirmed to The Verge , following reports from The Detroit Bureau and local media.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon may have skipped putting its name on the outside of the renovated stadium where the Seattle Kraken will begin NHL play next month, but the company is bringing its technology to the inside of Climate Pledge Arena. (Climate Pledge Arena Image). Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Climate Pledge Arena Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The company, founded in 2012, handles more than 150 billion files for customers such as Hyundai, Cinesite Studios, Telus, and others. “It’s an exciting time to join the company’s board.” ” Fink retired in 2018. . “It’s an exciting time to join the company’s board.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Eight years later, he just took the company public from the same house. “We’ve now earned the opportunity to build what we set out to,” the Porch CEO said via video from Seattle on Thursday morning, thanking the company’s employees, investors and partners before the ceremonial ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Electric vehicle startups have raised an absurd amount of money in the last year by merging with special purpose acquisition companies , or SPACs. billion in exchange for majority control in 2018. These companies are trying to debut vehicles at a time when the pandemic has put a ton of stress on the automotive supply chain.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

The company confirmed that he quickly became the platform’s biggest podcaster after jumping to Spotify. He “stimulated new user additions, activated first time podcast listeners, and [has] driven favorable engagement trends, including vodcast consumption,” the company wrote in a February 2021 earnings release.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The pandemic has brought new urgency to the problem, and while companies like Google and Facebook have floated far-out ideas for solving this problem, the internet technology that’s most promising is also the one that’s already proven: satellite broadband. In 2020, there are two main ways companies deliver satellite broadband.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2020

He was 18 when they sold the company to Microsoft and joined the Redmond tech giant, forming the basis for its Mixer streaming platform and helping to lead its challenge to Amazon’s popular Twitch platform, before leaving last year. The Mixer studio on Microsoft’s Redmond campus in 2018. GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy).

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2024

CarbonQuest is among a growing number of carbon capture technology startups helping companies adhere to climate goals and emissions regulations. By the end of this year, the company expects to have six carbon capture systems installed in New York City and Johnson said there are more than 100 projects in the pipeline. .

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TM Forum

AUGUST 19, 2021

Unlike aviation or heavy industry, however, telecom companies tend not to be grouped among the worst environmental offenders. which sets out goals to reduce the EU’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, will set a target to produce 40% of the EU’s energy from renewable sources by 2030.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Companies in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere are raking in billions to pursue the dream with investments from tech heavyweights such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In fact, no fusion company has yet hit the essential target of getting more energy from fusion reactions than it puts into them.

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TM Forum

AUGUST 9, 2022

However, in June 2018, according to a Business Today report, postpaid subscribers were shifting to prepaid connection. Whereas postpaid customers may be characterized by their affordability, high propensity to call ‘on-net’, i.e., to their family or friends from within their network of provider, a rich residential location, etc.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Redfin will wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and lay off employees for the second time this year as it cuts expenses in response to a slowing housing market. This is the company’s second round of layoffs this year, following an 8% workforce reduction in June. Redfin’s headcount has dropped by 27% since April.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

A new study led by Ashley Nunes , a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, concluded that fleets of electric autonomous taxis could “dramatically increase energy consumption and emissions that contribute to climate change — not reduce them.”.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

A recent spinout from the studio, Weekdays, is one of several companies developing new solutions to help parents and families grapple with consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. The company launched earlier this year with a service that uses technology to match in-home providers with parents, and has seen increased demand in recent months.

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Vox

JULY 11, 2023

Amazon Prime Day first launched in 2015, initially as a way to celebrate Amazon’s 20th birthday (to the extent companies can have birthdays, I guess). It was a way to reward members of its Prime program , which started in 2005, and to bring consumers into its ecosystem of products and services. By 2018, that number was 300,000.

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Vox

MAY 22, 2023

Companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin saw some of the biggest jumps in search interest by this year’s grads on the popular college career site Handshake. Meanwhile, not a single tech company made the top 10. In other words, the labor market for grads looks a lot more like 2018 or 2019 than 2008 or 2009. Well, sort of.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2022

Amazon Prime Day first launched in 2015, initially as a way to celebrate Amazon’s 20th birthday (to the extent companies can have birthdays, I guess). It was a way to reward members of its Prime program , which started in 2005, and to bring consumers into its ecosystem of products and services. By 2018, that number was 300,000.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And Facebook has always defended itself by insisting that it is a net good to society because of how it brings people together. Ed Markey (D-MA) is calling for Facebook to halt all development of its Instagram for Kids product for children under 13, which BuzzFeed News first revealed the company was developing in March. “We

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last year, tech companies’ stocks cratered from their pandemic surge, but that did little to threaten Amazon’s standing as one of 2022’s most profitable American companies. Bezos’s philanthropic track record Before 2018, Bezos didn’t have much of a philanthropic résumé.

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