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 9, 2023.
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Most popular stories on GeekWire
New round of Microsoft job cuts hits customer service, support, and sales teams
Microsoft announced a new round of job cuts internally Monday morning, impacting an unknown number of employees in customer service, support, and sales. … Read More
Large graffiti painted on street outside Amazon’s Seattle HQ targets company as ‘Prime polluter’
Story updated with comment from Amazon. Amazon and CEO Andy Jassy were the targets of a large graffiti message painted on Sixth Avenue outside the company’s Seattle headquarters on Thursday. … Read More
Invite-only deals give Amazon Prime Day a new twist, with secretive selection process
Interested in a 75% discount on a 43-inch 4K Amazon Fire TV, or a 15% price cut on a Motorola razr+ foldable phone? … Read More
Blue Origin’s next-gen BE-4 rocket engine fails dramatically during testing in Texas
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture confirmed that one of its BE-4 rocket engines suffered a significant anomaly during testing at its West Texas facility in late June. … Read More
Rare corpse flower blooms in Amazon’s Spheres and thousands line up to snap a pic and take a sniff
A line of people snaking through the Spheres on Wednesday and Thursday this week ended with a photo op on an upper floor of Amazon’s unique Seattle office building. … Read More
How AI is changing the way scientists engineer drugs, biosensors, enzymes and more
We’re inside the headquarters of Outpace Bio in Seattle. … Read More
Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP
Raejeanne Skillern, a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned. … Read More
Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud
Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud. … Read More
Electronic Arts partners with Marvel for new video game studio in Seattle
The next big Marvel Comics video game is being made in Seattle. … Read More
Antstream Arcade will bring cloud gaming service and 1,300 retro titles to Xbox
Cloud gaming company Antstream Arcade announced Friday that it plans to launch on Xbox on July 21, bringing its library of more than 1,300 retro video games to Microsoft’s gaming platform. … Read More
