The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That brings Amsterdam-based VanMoof’s total haul to $182 million raised in the last two years, excluding crowdfunding rounds in 2018 and 2019, making it “the most funded e-bike company in the world,” according to VanMoof.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

Essence VC Photo) Seattle pre-seed venture capital firm Essence VC says it has raised $27 million for its third fund to back early-stage startups building software development tools, data infrastructure and artificial intelligence. The business was sold in 2018 to enterprise data and analytics giant Cloudera.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

General counsel Jim Bucher and Erin Lavelle , chief operating officer and chief financial officer, are also leaving the 4-year-old neurosciences company. The changes come amid an announcement Thursday that the company will lay off about 55% of its workforce in the first half of 2023. The company had $123.6 billion in 2019.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

Google is opening up its Google Maps Platform to everyone so developers can incorporate Maps data into their games, the company announced on Monday. Its tools let developers use Maps data to build games that let you explore a modified version of the real world, similar to Niantic’s Pokémon Go.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2023

For example, a software developer who works for a health care company is considered tech talent. Seattle had the second highest average annual wage for tech talent working at tech companies ($172,009), just behind the San Francisco Bay Area ($185,425). The number of U.S. tech talent workers has increased by 610,000 or 11.4%

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

New funding: Seattle startup Educative landed a $12 million Series A round to grow its platform that helps employees at companies such as LinkedIn, Samsung, and Ford improve their coding skills. The company targets both consumers and enterprises, which use Educative to train their workforce. .” Total funding to date is $14.6

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

The company, founded in 2018 by Robby Hamblet and Michael Johnston, Jr., The Seattle startup’s tools analyze AI systems to help software developers identify and address security threats, and build secure AI systems by design. has raised more than $20 million in funding to date.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Zillow Group plans to lay off 47 workers in Washington state as part of the 2,000 company employees who will lose their jobs following the decision this week to shut down the home buying and selling operation Zillow Offers. The real estate company employs about 8,000 people across the U.S. GeekWire File Photo / John Cook).

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. Lexion announced this week that it will be acquired by Docusign in a $165 million deal, marking a successful exit for the Seattle startup co-founded by Oberoi in 2018. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 26-year-old software developer and Ukrainian citizen who worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, took advantage of a testing program for Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. Microsoft investigators were able to crack the case and confronted Kvashuk in May 2018. He was fired a month later.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Spheres are reflected in one of Amazon’s corporate office towers at the company’s headquarters in Seattle. The company said Wednesday it also wants to fill tens of thousands of hourly positions in its operations network. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in 2018. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Amazon Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

But the share of those joining technology companies fell dramatically in February 2022 to 5,300, down from around 15,300 in January, according to an analysis of the figures by CompTIA. It’s not because companies don’t want IT workers, though: It’s that they don’t want to meet their pay demands. Higher pay needed. Where the jobs are.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The company is seeking a jury trial and unspecified monetary damages: “This lawsuit seeks to open the markets for iOS app distribution and iOS app payment processing to those who wish to compete fairly with Apple, and to recover the enormous damages Apple caused.”. Cydia shut down new purchases in 2018.

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2021

Based in Chicago, McCrory had led industry relations for Redfin since 2018 and previously worked for the National Association of Realtors. Lee started as a consultant for Zillow Group and joined the Seattle-based company full-time in 2017. The company acquired Syracuse, N.Y.-based ” Will Wyatt. Panopto Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

based company said it also plans to close its New York City retail store and six satellite offices. When reached by GeekWire, Sonos would not elaborate on whether the cuts would affect its Seattle office, where product and software development takes place. It was the fastest growing office anywhere for the company.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other cloud-based services are already using hybrid systems to bring some of the benefits of the quantum approach to applications ranging from drug development to traffic management. To keep those quantum states stable, the wires would host Majorana zero modes localized at each end.

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This is upending the lives of would-be staff and threatening the company’s reputation in the job market for technical talent — where it was already facing challenges, according to a leaked internal memo exclusively viewed by Recode. That’s very damaging to the ‘Think Big’ and ‘Invent and Simplify’ ethos of this company.”

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2023

Founded in 2015, the Seattle-based firm is one of more than 800 studios that generate ideas and recruit people to lead new companies. ” The studio’s own engineers are using generative AI and LLMs (large language models) to speed software development as they work on new ideas. .

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Vox

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Jeff Bezos speaks at the 2018 opening of the Amazon Spheres complex in downtown Seattle. | Amazon has quietly been developing AI software to screen job applicants. That is, when the company starts hiring again. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also said that layoffs in the company’s core retail division would occur into 2023.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ford and Walmart are teaming to launch a robo-delivery service in three US cities, using autonomous test vehicles equipped with sensors and software developed by Argo AI. The companies plan on kicking off “integration testing” for the delivery service this year, with plans to expand the geographic areas over time.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

Janice Dearlove , a 20-year Amazon veteran and the company’s director of global employee engagement for Amazon in the community. Sea.citi’s 15 member companies represent more than 85,000 local workers. The company confirmed Boit’s departure and said he left to pursue other interests. Icertis Photo).

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Hacker Earth

MAY 18, 2023

With tech companies laying off more employees in Q1 ’23 (more than the entire 2022), good news has been hard to come by. Companies across the board are reviewing their team structures, looking for removable cushioning, cutting down on middle management, and wanting to do more with less.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

On Thursday, Judge James Donato unsealed a fully unredacted version of Epic’s original complaint against Google (via Leah Nylen ), and it alleges the company was so worried about Epic setting a precedent by abandoning the Play Store that it unleashed a broad effort to keep developers from following the company’s lead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Most recently the company launched gen AI-based services aimed at healthcare and life science organizations. And AWS recently announced Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables enterprise software developers to embed gen AI functionality into their programs.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 15, 2022

In my opinion, the last “big shift” I made was joining Heptio in 2018. It’s time to jump off a cliff and develop my wings on the way down. That, in turn, will draw me closer to a career goal I’ve had for a while of bolstering my programming/software development skills and experience.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2021

A 2018 study by Element AI found that only 13% of U.S. The company is ranked No. We spent five centuries in the print era, 30 years in software and now AI is on a path to supplant software, Braga said. And while coding and programmers drove software development, it’s data and data scientists that produce AI.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III Inc. The SPAC is targeting companies in “three separate areas of the life sciences industry that are often fragmented — life sciences tools, synthetic biology and diagnostics.” “The quality of the sponsor and the target company profile matters.”

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In Jul of 2018, Broadcom announced its intentions to acquire CA Technologies. In the press release , Hock Tan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom, said: “This transaction represents an important building block as we create one of the world’s leading infrastructure technology companies.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2021

A serial entrepreneur and veteran of companies including Zulily, Amazon and Microsoft, he has become an advocate for systemic change to dismantle racism in business and tech. Former president and COO of Intellectual Ventures, Brown has held past executive roles at companies including Corning and Honeywell. Thoughtexchange Photo). —

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

There is still money flowing to these companies, and nearly all of the executives, engineers, and software developers working on the technology remain bullish about the future. Last month, John Krafcik announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Waymo after helping lead the company since 2015.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

This book is mind-bending because it translates the complex theories behind the socio-technical aspects of software development and delivery into a set of easy-to-understand patterns. It offers helpful suggestions and examples of what does and doesn’t work in terms of creating a strong company culture,” says Ivashin. “I

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

The main focus of the online chat was SpaceX’s successful mission to send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station in a Crew Dragon capsule — but one of the engineers, Matt Monson , has moved on from Dragon to take charge of Starlink software development. SpaceX employees in Redmond, Wash.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For Chris Bedi, who joined ServiceNow as CIO in September 2015, a lot: the company recently gave him a new title, chief digital information officer, and rebranded his IT team as “digital technology.” “The When Bedi joined the company, his primary mission was to enable “scale-for-growth.” I can never get enough of them,” Bedi says.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ride Pilot will be available as a subscription service to customers in California, the company announced at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show. In addition to Luminar’s lidar, Volvo’s Ride Pilot system will be powered by software developed by Zenseact, a subsidiary of Volvo which worked alongside the automaker’s own team of engineers.

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