CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The CRCF program is a state fund designed to advance, in Virginia, targeted areas of research with commercial promise. The following CRCF proposals will be awarded, contingent upon acceptance of award terms and conditions: Eminent Researcher Recruitment Program . Matching Funds Program . CIT’s CAGE Code is 1UP71.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person. Just as Spaceflight Inc.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 6, 2013

The cloud allows small organizations to be flexible and agile allowing the company to react more quickly than other larger organizations (or small organizations that aren’t using the cloud). The cloud enables organizations to implement technologies that were out of reach just a few years ago. Information Technology The New CIO'

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Elon Musk appears to have passed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the richest person on the planet as the Tesla CEO’s net worth reached around $185 billion on Thursday thanks to a surge in the electric car company’s stock. Musk owns about 20% of the company. That sets up a rivalry with Tesla, Musk’s electric car company.

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Vox

JANUARY 25, 2024

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2020

Mercedes-Benz inked its largest order of electric vehicles to date, selling more than 1,800 vans to Amazon for the company’s delivery fleet in Europe. Mercedes also joined Amazon’s Climate Pledge, an initiative announced by the tech giant last year to become net carbon neutral by 2040. based company.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales. Here’s how the company defines each segment in its 10Q filing.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Shares of F5 were up more than 10% in after-hours trading Monday after the company beat estimates for its fourth fiscal quarter earnings report. The Seattle-based application delivery company reported revenue of $747 million, up 6% year-over-year, and GAAP net income of $165 million, up more than 8% year-over-year.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2023

(Accolade Photo) Seattle and Philadelphia area-based primary healthcare company Accolade is cutting its workforce and closing or reducing some facilities, according to a recent regulatory filing. A company spokesperson declined to say how many Accolade workers are affected by the reductions. for $460 million. Losses were $39.9

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

The company’s “Connecting Heroes” program allows any public and non-profit state and local fire, police and EMS departments to get free unlimited talk, text and smartphone data “with the highest network priority.” based company added a net total of 649,000 customers in the first quarter.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Amazon on Tuesday launched The Climate Pledge Fund , a new venture capital investment program that will funnel an initial $2 billion into startups building sustainable technologies across various industries such as transportation, food, manufacturing, and more. Amazon has 91 renewable energy projects worldwide.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Seattle-based company confirmed the cuts and said that fewer than 100 people were impacted, primarily in Redfin’s Concierge service, which helps homeowners improve their home’s appeal before putting it on the market. In 2022, responding to a housing market slowdown, Redfin laid off staff and ditched its iBuying program.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2020

Amazon announced its Climate Pledge initiative last year as the company promised to become net carbon neutral by 2040. It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world , generate zero waste from operations and events, and be powered with 100% renewable electricity. Nickname suggestions needed for Seattle venue.

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GeekWire

APRIL 12, 2023

A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Wednesday. This is the third time in less than a year the Seattle real estate company has conducted a workforce reduction. Redfin said last November that it would wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and eliminate 862 positions, or 13% of its workforce.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Seattle company is working with genetically diverse populations around the world in the pursuit of new drug therapies. The company has built a platform that uses statistical genetics and machine learning to identify the most promising treatments.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 10, 2020

We’re now targeting NET early-to-mid November for launch of @NASA ’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the @Space_Station. Crew-1 is among six planned missions SpaceX plans to send to the ISS under a contract with NASA, awarded in 2014 as part of the Commercial Crew Program that brought private sector companies into the US space program.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“Between Amazon and Whole Foods purchases, the Amazon card, and all the ‘pay with Amazon’ merchants, the company has vastly more individualized data than any insurance actuary.” It’s literally as if Jeff Bezos does have a crystal ball and said, I’m going to design a company around a pandemic.

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2021

Amazon made the investment through its Climate Pledge Fund , which is aimed at backing companies that accelerate Amazon’s pledge to be net zero carbon across its businesses by 2040. The company previously backed Rivian in 2019 in rounds of $700 million and $1.3 billion financing round.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

An increasing number of companies are pledging to shrink their carbon footprints, including Microsoft’s vow to become carbon negative and Amazon’s promise to be net carbon zero. Reaching these goals will require investments in carbon-removal programs. The demand for offsets is seemingly vast. Nori raised $1.3

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Are you a net nominator or mocker? At my company every quarter we nominate teammates for what's called the "Star Award". It's a peer recognition program that does a little bit for the pocket book, and a lot for a person's esteem. The answer to this question just might determine if people like to work with you or not.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company says it has created new packaging for cold and frozen foods that is made from recycled paper, and can be recycled in curbside bins. It’s part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. It’s also part of a larger effort by the company to shift to recyclable packaging.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

housing market continues to show signs of weakening, impacting Seattle real estate tech companies such as Zillow Group and Redfin. “We think that the housing market could get worse,” Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday. The company’s headcount has dropped 27% since April.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s providing funding for companies before they’re generating revenue, and even before they have a product. VertueLab offers a variety of support for new companies. This summer, the accelerator accepted 10 early-stage companies in the latest round of the program.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries.

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GeekWire

MAY 9, 2024

Williams was previously president of Wizards, the Hasbro-owned game company behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons. She left the company last month. The company laid off 12% of its workforce in August, and its president resigned in March. Net loss decreased from $61.1 million, down from $251.9

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

There are not many organizations that can take a hit on net profit due to monstrous restructuring costs, yet at the same time raise their operating profit projections for 2025, but SAP is one of them, according to its latest quarterly results released this week. Total revenue for the quarter reached €8.29

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Redfin said in November it would wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and eliminate 862 positions, or 13% of its workforce. That was the real estate company’s second round of layoffs last year, following an 8% workforce reduction in June. Some other highlights from the Q4 report: Net loss was $61.9

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Sana Biotechnology CEO Steve Harr cuts the ribbon at the company’s new manufacturing facility in Bothell, Wash., The Bothell facility will house Sana’s proprietary cancer drug program. The cell and gene therapy company plans to manufacture other drugs at the same site in the future. “To Washington state Rep.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Android security is always a hot topic on these here Nets of Inter — and almost always for the wrong reason. If you look closely, in fact, you'll start to notice that the vast majority of those stories stem from companies that — gasp! make their money selling malware protection programs for Android phones.

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GeekWire

JUNE 17, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has made grocery and food delivery workers essential while exposing the inequities and shortfalls of an on-demand workforce left out of a social safety net built on traditional employment. The company says order volume has surged 20X since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile, a Seattle and Berkeley, Calif.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Climate Week is kicking off Monday in New York City and major companies including Amazon and Microsoft as well as Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy are sharing news of their efforts to decarbonize. based company is donating $100 million to Breakthrough Energy Catalyst. The Climate Pledge Arena, home of the Seattle Kraken NHL team.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2020

Walmart’s ecommerce business in the United States grew 97% in the company’s second fiscal quarter, ended July 31, the retail giant reported Tuesday morning. net sales for the first time, according to GeekWire’s calculations, based on Walmart’s current and past financial results. billion, or $2.29/share.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

The company had 858 full-time employees at the end of 2021, according to its annual filing with the SEC. The company doubled its workforce and signed up new partnerships with vaccine companies to help analyze and develop COVID-19 vaccines. But the company’s shares have declined about 80% from a peak in January 2021.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s also valued at more than five Expedia Groups, the Seattle-based travel company that closed trading today valued at $18.4 At the GeekWire Summit in October, Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern addressed the vacation rental market, noting that the company’s Vrbo business was doing well during the pandemic. It raised $3.5

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Minda Brusse , founding partner at First Row, said she was surprised and delighted at the momentum coming out of the new program, which included 17 investors, half of which were women. Most were high net worth individuals or representatives of small family offices. Yoko Okano, left, and Minda Brusse.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Microsoft in June announced a sweeping racial justice plan, including an initiative to spend $150 million on diversity and inclusion programs, and double its number of Black and African American managers and senior employees by 2025 in the U.S. percentage points, according to the company’s 2019 diversity and inclusion report.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. Anthropic makes large-scale AI models and a chatbot called Claude. ”

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