Sentences with phrase «seattle post-intelligencer»

Seattle - based Amazon said in June that it expects to finance the takeover with debt and cash.

«Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city's next 40 biggest employers combined.

There are teams from San Francisco, Seattle, Rome, Bucharest, and Tokyo.

Amazon (amzn) disclosed the number in Seattle during a media event during which it announced new products like a premium version of the Echo speaker, the Echo Plus, and an updated version of its Fire TV set - top box.

The presence of Amazon is so huge in Seattle that it has also spurred the openings of restaurants and bars that benefit from the headquarters» lunchtime and happy - hour crowds, as well as new bus lines for Amazon interns.

But with its proximity to technology hubs like San Francisco and Seattle, Canada's western province — and in particular Vancouver, its picturesque urban center — could have the most to gain from its national neighbor's newfound isolationism.

Seattle - Tacoma International Airport says typical wait time is 90 minutes, Charlotte Douglas International Airport is reporting 75 - minute lines, and Atlanta Airport tells the the AP that «things appear to be only getting worse.»

• Suplari, a Seattle - based startup serving enterprises, raised $ 10.3 million im Series A funding.

Dan Levitan, co-founder and general partner of Maveron, a consumer - only VC firm based in Seattle and San Francisco, shares these sentiments.

Internet - monitoring company Downdetecter said that the outage is affecting Xfinity customers in Denver, Portland, Chicago, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, Boston, and Mountain View, Calif..

«Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5» — including big parts of Seattle, Portland and other major municipalities in Washington and Oregon — «will be toast,» Kenneth Murphy, a regional director for FEMA, told the New Yorker.

Mel Carson is founder of Delightful Communications, a Seattle - based social - media - strategy, digital - PR and personal - branding consulting firm.

Numerous cities, such as Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, have minimum wages higher than either their state or federal wage floors.

He referred to a conversation he had with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, about how workers in Seattle stay with an employer about twice as long as they do in Silicon Valley.

Rascoff: I still remember we were in this high - rise at 2 Union St., in downtown Seattle, and we're looking at Queen Anne, which is this neighborhood on a hill that looks at downtown on one side and Puget Sound on the other.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told the Seattle Times that she was «deeply concerned about the impact this decision will have on a large range of jobs — from our building trades, to restaurant workers, to nurses, manufacturing jobs and tech workers.»

Founded in 1996 during a peak period for the craft beer industry, Seattle - based Elysian grew to sell over 50,000 barrels by 2014.

Anheuser - Busch (BUD), the world's largest beer company, has inked several notable deals of its own, buying Seattle - based Elysian Brewing and Oregon - based 10 Barrel.

So for those two difficult years, I was also commuting to my wife from San Francisco to Seattle.

Bezos will be a stark contrast to his fellow Seattle - area resident Gates, who has topped the list for much of the past quarter - century and devotes his time and money to philanthropy.

And she has enough funny epithets at the ready to skewer everything from abortion rights restrictions to Seattle's controversial sports arena.

Meanwhile, Amazon recently announced that it will build a second headquarters that could effectively turn the chosen city into a company town — much like what happened to Seattle when the online retail giant came to Seattle in the late 1990s.

We have some that we have been working with for years that still bring their cars to us from Seattle, Gig Harbor, Kent, Arlington.

Amazon has suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle, pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would fund programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless.

They foraged for fabrics outside clothing factories and hawked T - shirts on the streets of Seattle.

And then to further the Seattle part of the story here — this is very Seattle, so indulge me for a second as we sit here in midtown Manhattan, feels a world away.

I was actually commuting to Seattle because on September 10, 2001, my wife moved from San Francisco, which is where Hotwire was, to Seattle to go to med school at the University of Washington.

TechStars is loosely affiliated with 30 of these programs -; serving in an advisory capacity and allowing the programs to use its application -; and it runs TechStars programs in New York City, Boston, Seattle, San Antonio, and Boulder.

And it was Etsy's mercurial founder, Rob Kalin, who contacted the pair out of the blue, inviting them to leave Seattle and come to New York, where he would give them a free workspace.

As soon as we sold the company to Expedia, which is based in Seattle, I moved, like, literally that week, and I worked at Expedia and I managed the hotel business for Expedia, Hotwire, and Hotels.com.

Competition: Most of the venture capital for synthetic biology applications has gone to companies like Seattle - based Juno Therapeutics, which does genetic engineering to help patients fight disease.

ProPublica and our partners have produced more than 50 stories using the tips from the database, from New York to Seattle, Minneapolis to Phoenix.

«And while Seattle's booming economy is often attributed to a wide variety of factors, increasingly, it's all about one company.»

Other cities to show dramatic growth included Austin, Seattle, Boston and Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the number of A rounds financed in the Bay Area was down about six pecrent.

• FusionZONE Automotive, a portfolio company of Primus Capital, acquired MotorWebs, a Seattle - based web design company focused on car dealership websites.

«Seattle is a city of great prosperity that has experienced tremendous growth of its economy and population,» the draft read.

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

Seattle's City Council on Friday released new draft legislation that would tax large employers in order to raise $ 75 million next year to counter the effects of rising rents and house prices.

«Mobile devices are completely changing the way we interact with information,» says Brian Fling, president of pinch / zoom, a mobile and Web application development agency based in Seattle.

A recent report by research firm Startup Genome ranked the city's startup ecosystem eighth in the world, just behind Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, Boston and London.

Even Amazon is flirting with opening more physical stores, in addition to the single pilot location it now runs in Seattle.

And the growth continues: Amazon's Seattle footprint of 8.1 million square feet is expected to soar to more than 12 million square feet within five years,» The Seattle Times reported in August 2017.

Our local partners reported on how hate incidents affect communities across the country: anti-Semitic graffiti in Phoenix, Islamophobia in Minneapolis, racist vandalism and homophobic threats in Seattle, white supremacist activity at a California university, racist harassment and vandalism in Boston, racism in the workplace in New Orleans, and hate incidents throughout Florida.

She became the first female mayor of Seattle since 1926, and the second openly lesbian mayor, this year.

The company currently operates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, San Diego, Houston and Dallas, and is continuously expanding into other major U.S. cities.

Seattle - based Socrata is a leader in creating technology platforms for government.

Matt Ehrlichman is the CEO of Seattle - based Porch.com, the home improvement network.

Seattle is seeing a massive wealth boom from growing tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft, yet the gains aren't being spread evenly.

Many companies I'm involved in are exploring offices in Canada, especially Vancouver (for the Seattle folks) and Toronto (for the east coast folks) since it's so difficult to get work visas in the U.S. for employees.

«Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, New York, Austin, Charlotte / Raleigh - Durham, and San Diego are all excellent places to live where the hiring is robust,» Haller says.