Microsoft’s Candy Crush: Madrona’s Hope Cochran, former King CFO, on $68.7B Activision deal
Madrona Managing Director Hope Cochran speaks at the GeekWire Summit in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision…
GeekWire Podcast: Data journalist Sherrell Dorsey on her new book, ‘Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us’
Sherrell Dorsey, author of Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us. Sherrell Dorsey grew up in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood and started interning…
Podcast: Sony’s $3.6B Bungie deal, explained
The latest jaw-dropping deal in video games is Sony Interactive Entertainment’s agreement to buy Bellevue, Wash.-based Bungie, maker of the Destiny series of online multiplayer first-person shooter games,…
Amazon defies gravity, Microsoft’s biggest challenge, and one startup’s quest to wipe out deforestation
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s latest results demonstrated its extraordinary flexibility and ability to overcome challenges in the broader economy using the built-in safeguards in…
Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k for corporate and tech workers, citing labor market
An Amazon lobby in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from…
Assessing the impact of Amazon’s big salary bump
GeekWire File Photo Amazon informed its corporate and tech employees about a major change in their pay structure Monday morning. The company raised the cap for its…
GeekWire Podcast: The realities of Amazon’s pay increase; inside Microsoft’s HoloLens business
Amazon’s increase in base pay and Microsoft’s HoloLens were in the news this week. (GeekWire Photo / Microsoft Image) Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week,…
Why Microsoft’s return to the office may not be the norm across the rest of the tech industry
A quiet Microsoft campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) What does Microsoft’s return to the office mean for everybody else? That was one…
Startup survival story: Armoire’s remarkable journey from sequins to sweatpants and back again
Armoire CEO and founder Ambika Singh. (Armoire Photo) Armoire CEO and founder Ambika Singh and her team built a women’s clothing subscription service with their “bosslady” members…
How Zillow’s flexible work strategy is going, nearly two years later
GeekWire Illustration Zillow Group knows a thing or two about homes, and during the past two years the Seattle-based online real estate company has emerged as a…