Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming platform once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down on June 1, ending a decade-long run for one of the city's most prominent startup unicorns.
In her debut column for GeekWire, longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley digs into the recent wave of reorgs, hiring freezes, and leadership shakeups in Redmond, and asks whether it's business as usual or something bigger.
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Amazon has purchased 1,300 acres in Boardman, Ore., for a potential $12 billion "exascale" data center campus capable of housing up to 20 buildings, the Oregonian reports.
Snap has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., with some employees joining the Spectacles hardware subsidiary, as the Seattle-based social gaming company shuts down its platform on June 1.
Microsoft's Joy Chik is retiring after 28 years, the company's VP of energy resigns, and startups TerraClear, UserTesting, EchoMark and Read AI add leaders.
The latest edition of commercial real estate firm JLL's Innovation Geographies report reveals that while Seattle is outpacing traditional hubs like New York and London in talent migration, a shortage of "investment-grade" real estate is creating a bottleneck for the city's next era of tech expansion.
Founded by former AWS energy leaders, British Columbia-based Soma Energy emerged from stealth with $7 million and tech to optimize the power grid for data centers and utilities.
Another round of layoffs at Meta will affect 168 employees in Washington state, with jobs in Meta's virtual reality division being particularly hard hit.
Bound for the Moon, astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft encountered a challenge familiar to many of us back here on terra firma: Microsoft Outlook.
Scientists took their best swing at the torpedo bat design, which relies on a slightly different shape in which wood is removed from the barrel tip and added to the bat's sweet spot.
Telegram's billionaire founder, Pavel Durov, said on Saturday that Russia's attempt to block Virtual Private Networks (VPN) triggered a problem with a domestic payment system, adding that tens of millions of Russians were resisting digital controls.
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