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This climate is no good for doing business. Charles Mudede In the piece “Amazon apprehensive about future growth in Seattle after head tax passes,” Casey Coombs, a staff writer for Puget Sound Business Journal,...

In New Disclosure, Google Releases Far More Seattle Election Ad Purchases Than Previously Revealed

by Greg Tripp | May 15, 2018 | Technology | 167

If Google doesn’t improve its disclosures even further, it’s going to run afoul of state regulators. by Eli Sanders This is one of 154 ad purchases that Google failed to disclose back in February. The ad, placed by...

At SpaceX headquarters, 27 teams test out half-size Hyperloop pods

by Greg Tripp | Jan 30, 2017 | Business, Technology | 67

Megan Geuss From left to right: part of WARR’s pod casing, MIT’s pod, Delft’s pod, all awaiting...

Immigrant tech workers fear ‘reactionary’ travel ban

by Greg Tripp | Jan 30, 2017 | Technology | 67

Khulud Fidama, 26, of Dearborn, Mich., stands with her family outside the McNamara Terminal at...

Mystery new Windows SKU could be a resurrection of Windows RT

by Sandy Duncan | Jan 30, 2017 | Technology | 52

Microsoft’s own Surface: one of the few Windows RT devices that you could actually buy. There are increasing signs that Microsoft is planning to release a new edition of Windows 10. Evidence from the Windows SDK[1] and in...

Trump targets tech’s H-1B visa hiring tool

by Sandy Duncan | Jan 30, 2017 | Technology | 162

Tech companies had strong responses to Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants...

FCC Chairman Pai takes Wheeler’s set-top box plan off the table

by Sandy Duncan | Jan 30, 2017 | Technology | 3

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has taken his predecessor’s cable TV set-top box plan off the table. The proposal from former Chairman Tom Wheeler was officially “on circulation,” meaning...

Trump orders “1 in, 2 out” rule for federal regulations

by Sandy Duncan | Jan 30, 2017 | Technology | 1

Enlarge[1] / US President Donald Trump signs an executive order as Vice President Mike Pence looks on at the White House in Washington, DC on January 20, 2017.Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) Last week was a busy one for...

Game industry scrambles to respond to Trump’s immigration order

by Sandy Duncan | Jan 30, 2017 | Technology | 2

DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images + Aurich Lawson + Warren Davis and Jeff Lee In the wake of President Trump’s sweeping order[1] to severely limit immigration, visitation, and refugee status for people from seven Muslim-majority...