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Real Estate Wire Fraud on the Rise, Secret Service Investigators Say

SecureWorld News

Scammers are attacking home buyers through wire fraud transactions, often posing as their title company or broker/real estate agent whom the victim has been working with. Victims then unknowingly transfer their finances over, only to later find that their real estate team never received the payment.

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Improving and Customizing the Windows Taskbar

TechSpot

With a few easy tweaks, the Windows taskbar can save you time and display more information while taking up less screen real estate. and become less disturbing.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s new Surface and Windows chief; ex-Zillow CEO joins Match Group board; Oleria adds execs

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime Microsoft exec Pavan Davuluri is taking on a new role leading the company’s Surface and Windows divisions, according to a report from The Verge. He currently runs a venture capital fund in Los Angeles called 75 & Sunny Labs and is board chair at real estate marketplace startup Pacaso.

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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

GeekWire

Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8 billion, including a decline of 39% in revenue from versions of Windows licensed to computer manufacturers. billion for the quarter, or 12 cents a share, to account for severance packages for laid-off employees, the cost of exiting real estate leases, and unspecified changes in its hardware portfolio.

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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

GeekWire

Libretto , a LLM startup led by former employees at Seattle real estate giant Redfin, this week came out of stealth and announced a $3.7 Kareem Choudhry , a longtime Xbox exec, is leaving Microsoft , according to a report from Windows Central. San Francisco-based Elastic went public in 2018. million investment round.

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Inside the AI Revolution: Tech execs on the new realities for software, startups, and the future

GeekWire

Bridget Frey, CTO at Redfin , the tech-powered real estate company that operates in more than 100 markets in the U.S. David Shim, CEO at Read AI , a Seattle-based startup using AI to provide a new window into meetings, and transform them in the process. Using ChatGPT to generate 4x more localized real estate content.

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Sonoma Bio celebrates new Seattle waterfront R&D center for autoimmune disease science

GeekWire

The research benches, incubators, centrifuges, fume hoods, microscopes, refrigerators and other scientific equipment fill bright, window-lined rooms with views that include Puget Sound. The new lab space is large enough for roughly 65 scientists, who are working on early-state research that precedes clinical trials.