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Jeff Bezos Christens New Texas Wind Farm in Ridiculous Twitter Video
The second richest man in America smashed a champagne bottle on top of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine.
The second richest man in America smashed a champagne bottle on top of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine. Today is HQ2 deadline day, and with the eyes of the world on Amazon, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos tweeted out a video of him standing atop a giant wind turbine, and christening it by smashing a champagne…
Nearly 20k Amazon, Whole Foods Frontline Employees Test Positive for Coronavirus
Compared to the general population, The Seattle-based e-commerce giant says it expected to see nearly 34,000 positive cases among frontline employees.
Compared to the general population, The Seattle-based e-commerce giant says it expected to see nearly 34,000 positive cases among frontline employees.
Business and Civic Leaders Denounce the Threat to Public Safety in Downtown Seattle
In a letter to public officials, they urge action to permanently take back Third Avenue from the open drug market
In a letter to public officials, they urge action to ‘permanently take back Third Avenue from the open drug market’
Seattle’s got talent: New report highlights how ‘techie’ the region is really is
Mention Seattle to someone in, say, New York and three things come to mind: coffee, rain and technology. Stereotypes, sure, but truisms nonetheless. Now comes a report by commercial real estate firm CBRE that Seattle leads all markets across the United States in tech-job creation. The Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area added 45,560 technology jobs between 2016 and…
Pattern Takes on Covid
Company says rapid spit test is 98.5% accurate
Startup Pattern Computer Inc. is seeking FDA approval for a rapid Covid testing device that uses two drops of spit to diagnose Covid in a mere three seconds and confirms the virus with 98.5% accuracy. It can also distinguish other viral diseases at a 70% predictive rate. “We have the world’s fastest, most accurate, highest…
Chaos to Cure
Pattern computer is on the precipice of discovering new treatments for cancer and other diseases
In less than three years, Pattern Computer Inc. (PCI) has discovered a pair of two-drug candidates for triple-negative breast cancer, the hardest cancer to treat. The 5-year-old startup has entered mice trials and is shopping its triple-negative breast cancer discoveries to big pharmaceutical companies, which will conduct human trials and perhaps commercialize Pattern’s discoveries. The…
The Great Resignation: Not in Washington State
Lots of workers in Georgia and Kentucky apparently dislike their jobs. That’s not the case in Washington state. In one of those instances where the state wants to be near the bottom, Washington ranks a lowly No. 43 for the percentage of people who quit their jobs during “The Great Resignation.” Only 2.43% of Washington’s…
The Host of the Roast
Roasterworks has become a key part of Seattle’s world-class coffee culture
A chance phone call may have saved Christopher Pitotti’s business. Pitotti is founder and “steward” of Pitotti Coffee Roasters, a wholesaler and retailer based in Spokane. The year was 2020. The pandemic was raging and the equipment the company had been using to roast its beans suddenly became unavailable. Pitotti placed a frantic phone call…
When Blue Means Green
Seattle and state leaders are aggressively pursuing an economic development strategy centered around a robust marine environment
Joshua Berger is on a mission to change Seattle, both nationwide and in his own backyard. Berger is president and chief executive officer of Washington Maritime Blue, a nonprofit trade organization he founded three years ago to accelerate innovation and sustainability in the “blue economy,” or the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth…