GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At left, Hongying Tang of HQ Tourism Services points to the Saint Lawrence River during a virtual tour of Quebec City as part of the Amazon Explore beta. At right, Daniela Elias of Signature Tours shows the empanadas she made during a one-on-one virtual cooking class from Buenos Aires. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

And she’s one of 8,000 interns that Amazon has taken on this summer around the world, hosting all of them virtually for the first time. Patel is grateful that the tech giant maintained the program despite the challenges — many of her peers are without work this summer due to cuts in programs. Albert Kim. LinkedIn Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2023

Yolanda Barton, standing, created a virtual reality experience focused on Seattle’s Central District, a historically Black neighborhood. She participated in Meta’s Oculus Launch Pad program and received engineering assistance to help create an initial prototype.

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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.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Four expertise-based services industries that are being disrupted are: Higher education : While the brand of leading universities are strong, the rise of OpenCourseWare , in which all of the content of university programs are provided online for free, changes the role of tertiary institutions.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The sessions are more expensive than your typical teenage space camp: August’s five-day, four-night program carried a price tag of $29,500, and the prices for December’s three-day, two-night session start at $15,000. Maybe you should understand what you’re getting yourself into and what type of adventure you want.'”

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

Andrews and Orbite’s other co-founder, French-born tech entrepreneur Nicolas Gaume, have set the schedule for astronaut orientation courses that’ll include virtual-reality simulations, a zero-G flight and a high-G flight — all designed to provide a taste of space without tying the participant down to a particular program.

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