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Amazon workers demand company quit polluting near communities of color

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Paola Dela Cruz-Perez, a youth organizer for the nonprofit East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice said during a shareholder briefing held today. In 2019, thousands of workers at Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook walked out of work to protest a lack of action on climate change.

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Tech Moves: Rad Power Bikes co-founder resigns; WRF CEO Ron Howell to retire; and more

GeekWire

The organization supports life science and technology through grants, commercialization, and licensing technologies from universities and other nonprofit research institutions. Saad Syed , the former VP of engineering at Azure Core, has left Microsoft and will join Stripe as head of reliability serves and business continuity. .

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‘Our country is in a cyberwar’: Inside the White House summit with Hadi Partovi of Code.org

GeekWire

President Joe Biden brought together top executives from the nation’s biggest technology, financial services and energy companies this week to address the growing challenge of cybersecurity , speaking to tech leaders including Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Apple CEO Tim Cook. And did any real solutions emerge?

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Amazon throws support behind low-carbon fuel standard bill in Washington state

GeekWire

The state’s largest business lobby group, the Association of Washington Business, continues to oppose the measure, saying it would increase the cost of fuel, citing the maximum cost estimates that have come out of California and Oregon. Fitzgibbon and the governor’s office said Microsoft has also signaled its support.