Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 11, 2021.
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OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris
After years of building, testing and dealing with setbacks, Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has sent a next-generation submersible and its crew down to the wreck site of the Titanic for the first time. … Read More
An evening with Kindle Vella: First impressions of Amazon’s new attempt to reimagine reading
The serialized story is a mainstay of the literary world, a tried-and-true formula for creating a tantalizing tale, from opening hook to closing cliffhanger. … Read More
The Seattle startup scene is sizzling with record funding, hiring surge, 12 unicorns
Huge fundings. New unicorns. More tech talent. … Read More
Blue Origin’s mystery passenger revealed: At age 18, Oliver Daemen will be youngest spaceflier
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the beneficiary of the $28 million auction for a spot on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship is Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old student from the Netherlands. … Read More
Seattle leads nation in ‘brain gain,’ adds tech jobs faster than any other big U.S. market over 5 years
The Seattle region added more than 48,000 tech jobs from 2016 to 2020, an increase of more than 35% — growing at a faster rate than any other large U.S. … Read More
How this Seattle entrepreneur went from running a food truck to leading a fast-growing crypto startup
More than a year after shutting down his popular Korean-Mexican food truck and catering business Bomba Fusion, Seattle entrepreneur Simon Yu checked in from Mexico, where he’s working remotely, and the subject turned to food. … Read More
Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper
Facebook has struck a deal to have more than a dozen of its wireless internet experts move over to Amazon to work on its Project Kuiper satellite broadband network, The Information reported today. … Read More
Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform
Amperity is the latest company to join the Seattle region’s elusive club of unicorns, or privately held tech startups valued at more than $1 billion. … Read More
Facebook inks another lease in Seattle area, where it now has 7K employees and 3.3M square feet
Facebook is grabbing more space in the sprawling Spring District development in Bellevue, Wash., securing a lease for Block 5, an 11-story, 345,000-square-foot office building scheduled to open in 2023. … Read More
With Windows 365, Microsoft realizes its vision for Cloud PCs, streaming its OS to any device
Microsoft will release Windows as a paid cloud service, promising to stream the operating system to any device in an attempt to create what the tech giant describes as a new category of computing called the Cloud PC. … Read More
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