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Okta to pay $6.5B to acquire Seattle’s Auth0; identity tech startup was valued at $1.9B last year

Amazon releases surprise Alexa app for Microsoft Xbox, with voice controls and video features

‘The fastest growing marketplace in history’: Vancouver’s Dapper Labs at the center of NFT craze

Roblox, GitHub and the power of online communities: A discussion with Madrona’s Dan Li

Parler unleashes 15-count lawsuit on Amazon, alleging defamation, bullying and bias for Twitter

Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

Bill Gates and Amazon join $80M funding round for Turntide electric motor venture

SpaceX aims to expand its Starlink satellite operation to Texas and set up Starbase City

Health data startup Truveta hires Seattle Foundation CEO Tony Mestres as president

‘Widespread failure to comply’: Why Washington state’s AG is suing Google, again

Amazon tweaks cardboard box tape in new app icon after some saw Hitler’s mustache in the design

Zillow Group real estate rival Compass files for IPO, shows $3.7B in revenue for 2020

Microsoft unveils Mesh, betting on mixed reality for gatherings and collaboration across platforms

How SPACs are changing the IPO game: Equity ownership of founders a big consideration

Zulily co-founder latest to join SPAC mania

Boeing Insitu founders raise cash for Aerovel, which makes drones that take off and land vertically

Amazon Web Services inks deal with the PGA Tour, its latest cloud computing sports deal

Microsoft Teams getting shared external channels, smart speakers, new presenter modes

Presage Biosciences raises $13M and inks new deal with Merck for cancer drug tests

Seattle-area fintech startup Secure reveals secret: Suze Orman is part of the founding team

Led by co-creator of Nintendo’s Power Glove, this startup raised $2M for its restaurant tech

What it was like to fly— and land — in Alaska Airlines’ first commercial 737-MAX 9 flight

Elizabeth Warren revives wealth tax plan alongside Washington’s Jayapal, seeking $3T over 10 years

PayScale and Payfactors combine into 600-person company, eyeing big market for compensation data

Tech Moves: WTIA elects new board leadership; Adriane Brown joins American Airlines board

Reperio Health raises $6M for at-home medical test subscription service aimed at employers

More capital for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op raises $50M fund, its largest yet

Biden issues pointed reminder about union rights amid pivotal vote by Amazon employees

Amazon takes 3 Golden Globes, including big ‘Borat’ win, as annual event goes mostly virtual

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 21, 2021

Inside Amazon’s ‘Labor Awakening’: Journalist Erika Hayasaki on her New York Times Magazine story

Finding my way to tech entrepreneurship: An immigrant’s perspective

Amazon Kids adds new browser setting control to give children access to more sites

After struggling to adopt a child, this founder launched a matchmaking platform for other families

Testing a new COVID-19 test: How T-cells beat antibodies in helping to detect past infections

Search for software ‘Bliss’: Iconic desktop image from Microsoft’s Windows XP still lures hill seekers

Viva la growth? What Microsoft’s bet means for this longtime player in employee experience tech

Father-daughters team launches Chances to attract Gen Z to new type of ‘social relationships app’

Hasbro reorganizes to support big growth from ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and ‘Magic: The Gathering’

Human genome sequencing rises to the next level of diversity and accuracy

Former top Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn joins Bessemer Venture Partners

Second Wave: Meet the 11 startups picked for Washington state’s maritime accelerator

ChefSteps founder returns to the kitchen with new startup and another high-tech cooking device

LinkedIn is down: ‘An error has occured’

South African COVID-19 variant found in Washington state

Internal memo: Top Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn officially leaving, hinting at new role elsewhere

‘Vampire: The Masquerade– Bloodlines 2’ publisher removes Seattle’s Hardsuit Labs as developer

GeekWire is turning 10: Seeking memorabilia from the past decade of Seattle and Pacific NW tech

Pendulum, a new Madrona Venture Labs startup, aims to combat misinformation on video platforms

Pluto VR promises high-end VR without a computer via new PlutoSphere platform