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GeekWire Awards: How these five Workplace of the Year finalists navigate challenging times

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Workplace of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders Harlan and Chad Robins; the Helion team; Impinj offices in Seattle; Treasury4 team; Blink CEO Karen Clark Cole. This year’s finalists are Adaptive Biotechnologies, Blink, Helion, Impinj and Treasury4. based healthcare software company.

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Stock market rally: Amazon, Microsoft, other Seattle companies bounce back from March lows

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Airlines and energy companies are seeing notable rallies, The New York Times noted , as social distancing restrictions loosen across the country and oil prices normalize. Microsoft stock is up around 40% since the end of March as the boom in productivity, cloud and collaboration software lift the company up. Shares reached $188.36

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Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market

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Software development openings on jobs site Indeed are down 32.8% “The shift in demand to online services, combined with a highly mobile workforce, may help tech weather the crisis better than other industries,” wrote Glassdoor senior economist Daniel Zhao. The largest industry is software/cloud, followed by healthcare.

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The emerging technology trends revolutionizing our world

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The world of finance is undergoing a transformation driven by emerging technology trends ( Image credit ) Some key developments in the rise of AR include: Mobile AR apps : The widespread adoption of smartphones with powerful processors and cameras has driven the development of mobile AR applications.

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The power of collaboration: SAP celebrates its innovation award winners

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And with the availability of a multitude of software solutions to remedy such issues as manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and procurement, the innovations derived from those applications are done by the people , transforming both industries and society. But can it, really? The answer is a definitive “No!”

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

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How will this year’s events — the pandemic, social justice movements, economic recession — affect the technology industry in 2021? Ideas such as “conscious capitalism,” which seek to align social responsibility with business growth, will get more attention. (GeekWire Photo / Clare McGrane). Magdalena Balazinska, director of the Paul G.

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Top Stories of ’21: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, COVID, and what’s next for tech in Seattle and beyond

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In the meantime, biotech is gaining momentum in Seattle: “I think the interface between information technology and biotechnology is going to give us a real competitive advantage, because we’re very strong in biomedicine, and we’re very strong in computing. And there’s so much at that interface.”

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