Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 5, 2020.
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Seattle passes big business tax on salaries of top earners after years of false starts
Seattle’s years-long effort to tax the wealth generated by tech and other lucrative industries crossed a new milestone Monday. … Read More
Walmart to launch a $98/year Amazon Prime competitor for grocery delivery and other perks
The battle between Walmart and Amazon is ramping up this month as Walmart prepares to launch a new membership service that rivals Amazon Prime. … Read More
How Seattle’s new payroll tax on Amazon and other big businesses will work
Seattle’s new plan to tax top salaries at the city’s highest-paying businesses is raising questions from the region’s tech community. … Read More
Amazon stock hits $3,000 for the first time as investors continue betting on Seattle tech giant
Amazon stock just keeps on climbing. The Seattle company saw shares rise above $3,000 for the first time ever Monday morning. … Read More
Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers
Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. … Read More
Univ. of Washington will move 80% of classes online this fall amid looming threats from COVID and ICE
The University of Washington’s leaders — and their colleagues across the country — are walking a tightrope as they plan for the fall term amid rising coronavirus cases and controversial new rules for international students introduced by the federal government this week. … Read More
Why this Seattle-area startup ditched its physical office — and what it means for the future of work
With no end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to work-from-home going smoothly, Tagboard faced a dilemma: keep paying rent for the company’s existing office space, or go fully remote. … Read More
Here are the Seattle-area tech companies that received a PPP loan from the federal government
A number of Seattle-area tech startups received millions of dollars from the federal government to help get through the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. … Read More
Amazon tells employees to delete TikTok, then claims directive was sent in error
Update 2:20 p.m.: An Amazon spokesperson said Friday afternoon that the email ordering employees to delete TikTok was an error. … Read More
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap hires key Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson as its new CEO
Microsoft leader Peggy Johnson is departing and will become the chief executive officer at high-profile augmented reality startup Magic Leap. … Read More