Q&A with Microsoft President Brad Smith on covering travel for employees seeking abortion, labor and employment reforms, pending antitrust regulation, and more
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Tweets: @geekwire and @geekwire Tweets: @geekwire : .@BradSmi on Ukraine #cyberwar security: “This has been a rallying cry & a unifying opportunity for ou...
Q&A with Microsoft President Brad Smith on covering travel for employees seeking abortion, labor and employment reforms, pending antitrust regulation, and more
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Tweets: @geekwire and @geekwire Tweets: @geekwire : .@BradSmi on Ukraine #cyberwar security: “This has been a rallying cry & a unifying opportunity for ou...
Microsoft and the CWA union announce a deal that would make it easier for Activision Blizzard's ~7,000 US employees to unionize after the acquisition closes
New York Times :
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers
likely more than 1 million people — with notifications of their organizing rights. By @KYWeise https://www.nytimes.com/... Pui-Wing Tam / @puiwingtam : In a year of push-pull betwe...
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers
The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made.
T-Mobile will end its TVision live TV offerings, partner with Philo and YouTube TV, and make Google Messages the default messaging app for Android customers
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Tanium, a cybersecurity company valued at $9B+, is moving its HQ from just outside Oakland, CA to Kirkland, WA near Seattle, after going remote first in June
John Cook / GeekWire :
NVCA report: 285 AI-related startups raised $6.9B in the US during Q1 2020, beating the pace of 2019's investments, as the overall VC market was roughly flat
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Uber says ride volume is down by ~70% in cities like Seattle, it has “ample liquidity” with $10B in cash, and is considering delivering medicine; stock up 35%+
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Apple is encouraging employees in Silicon Valley and Seattle to work from home as an “additional precaution” against the outbreak of coronavirus
in order to protect the health & safety of our employees, communities and entire Ohana. http://www.salesforce.com/... @twittercomms : A Seattle-based employee has been advised by t...
Apple is encouraging employees in Silicon Valley and Seattle to work from home as an “additional precaution” against the outbreak of coronavirus
Apple Inc. is encouraging employees in Silicon Valley to work from home as an “additional precaution” against the outbreak of coronavirus …
Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages as they ask their staff to work from home
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter all told Axios on Thursday night that they plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages even as they encourage …
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699
Cherlynn Low / Engadget :
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
How disruptive will it be? Chris Johnston / BBC : Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts Daniel Cooper / Engadget : Amazon's convenience store of the future makes me nervous ...