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Amazon plans to hire 250,000 workers in the U.S. for the 2024 holiday season

Amazon is aiming for 250,000 U.S. hires during the 2024 holiday season, matching its target from the...

Seattle startup Vieu raises $11M to reimagine B2B sales outreach, with help from AI

Goodbye, cold calls. Hello, warm introductions. That’s the promise of Vieu, a Seattle startup that w...

AWS CEO Matt Garman on the value of in-person work; investing in startups; and the ROI from AI

Amazon cloud leader Matt Garman voiced his support for Amazon’s plan to bring workers back to the of...

Microsoft AI CEO sees long-term memory as key to unlocking future AI experiences

Microsoft’s revamped personal Copilot, released this week, lets users engage in natural conversation...

Former SeaChange investors form new angel group in Seattle backing early stage startups

A trio of Seattle-area angel investors recently launched a new group called VentureUs that aims to m...

How venture capital could ‘fundamentally change’ over the next decade

Venture capital as we know it today may look quite different in the near future. “I think venture ca...

Tech Moves: AWS Startups gets a new leader; Zoom taps Microsoft vet as CFO

Amazon executive Jon Jones was named the new vice president and global head of AWS Startups. Jones w...

New CEO of Ada Developers Academy on overcoming setbacks, a bigger reach and adding AI

Seattle’s Ada Developers Academy for years has been a success story for training under-represented p...

Talking with AI: Microsoft Copilot guest hosts the GeekWire Podcast

We were looking for a guest expert to discuss the new Microsoft Copilot features on the show this we...