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Smartsheet says Mark Mader will retire as CEO and from the board of directors at the end of September, and names Apptio co-founder Sunny Gupta as acting CEO (www.geekwire.com)
2025-8-7

Microsoft plans to invest $30B+ in capital expenditures in Q1, which would be its largest for a single quarter, after reporting $24.2B in capital spending in Q4 (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-31 Microsoft 4Q

Seattle-based Dropzone AI, which offers AI agents that act as Security Operations Center analysts, raised a $37M Series B led by Theory Ventures (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-29 AI Seattle

In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the “enigma” of layoffs while “Microsoft is thriving”, saying the transition into the AI era “might feel messy at times” (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-25 Microsoft AI Layoffs

SEC filing: Augmodo, which is developing wearable tech for retail store employees, including Smartbadges that collect inventory data, raised $37.5M (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-18 Retail

Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production-ready systems (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-15 Amazon

Portola, which develops the Tolan app featuring AI companions, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; the app has 3M+ downloads and 100K+ paid users (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-14 AI

Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-13 Samsung Seattle

TerraPower, which develops small modular nuclear reactors, raised $650M from investors including Nvidia's NVentures and TerraPower co-founder Bill Gates (www.geekwire.com)
2025-6-19 Nvidia Bill Gates

Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-22 Amazon AI

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson approves controversial new taxes expanding the state's sales tax on companies providing digital services, starting in October 2025 (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-21 Tax

Microsoft says reviews found no evidence its tech was used by the Israeli military to harm civilians in Gaza, following months of protests by Microsoft staffers (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-16 Israel Microsoft

An AWS survey of 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries finds 45% plan to prioritize spending on generative AI in 2025, and 30% on cybersecurity (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-7 AI

Statsig, which offers a cloud tool for companies to streamline A/B testing of apps and websites, raised a $100M Series C led by Iconiq at a $1.1B valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-7

Filing: Amazon restructured part of its $8B Anthropic investment from convertible notes into stock in Q1, creating a $3.3B pre-tax gain that boosted its profits (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-3 Amazon Tax

Palo Alto Networks says it aims to acquire Seattle-based Protect AI, sources say for $500M; Protect AI's $60M Series B in 2024 was at a reported $400M valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2025-4-29 AI Seattle

Emergency response drone maker Brinc announced $75M in funding led by Index Ventures, bringing total raised to $157.2M; Motorola will become Brinc's distributor (www.geekwire.com)
2025-4-9 Drone

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon as a VP of product overseeing Ring and related businesses, replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who succeeded him in 2023 (www.geekwire.com)
2025-4-5 Amazon

Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M (www.geekwire.com)
2025-4-4

Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $27M (www.geekwire.com)
2025-4-2 Seattle

Microsoft unveils Sales Agent and Sales Chat AI agents, available in public preview in May, designed to work with Dynamics 365 business apps and with Salesforce (www.geekwire.com)
2025-3-6 Microsoft AI Salesforce

Lumotive, whose optical semiconductor tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Gates Frontier and MetaVC (www.geekwire.com)
2025-2-22

Amazon sues Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post about Jeff Bezos' Amazon Project Kuiper satellite facility in Seattle (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-31 Amazon Seattle Jeff Bezos

Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI business has surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $13B, up 175% YoY, as the company faces new scrutiny over AI spending (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-30 Microsoft AI

Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-14

Microsoft is creating a new “CoreAI - Platform and Tools” unit led by Jay Parikh, the ex-Lacework CEO and Meta engineering executive who joined in October 2024 (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-14 Microsoft

Washington state's AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal information of 2M+ residents in a 2021 cyberattack (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-8 Mobile

Amazon unveils new packaging for its Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV products, including removing plastic, less paper and ink, and using more recycled fibers (www.geekwire.com)
2024-12-19 Amazon

Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump on his “political comeback and decisive victory” in a rare X post; Bezos last reacted to Trump's failed assassination on July 13 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-11-7 Trump Jeff Bezos

Filing: Microsoft has made “funding commitments of $13B” to OpenAI and says losses from its stake were partly why it had a $683M expense on its Q1 investments (www.geekwire.com)
2024-10-31 Microsoft

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