Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite in 2016, two years after serving as Microsoft CEO and a few months after the company announced the acquisition of LinkedIn. (GeekWire file photo / Kevin Lisota) When Microsoft announced the acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $ 26 billion five years ago, there has been a lot of skepticism, … Read more
(Amazon photo) Amazon said on Wednesday that this week’s Prime Day sales event, which ended on Tuesday, was the largest two-day period ever for the e-commerce giant’s third-party sellers. Amid an intense antitrust review of how it operates its marketplace, Amazon’s post-prime PR has driven the company’s ongoing narrative about how good Amazon is for … Read more
The technical terms with the highest above-average usage in job advertisements in each state. (Canva graphic) A new study of the use of technical jargon in job advertisements has identified the worst culprits in the United States. And we would like to speak to Washington State. According to an analysis by Canva, maker of online … Read more
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at re: Invent 2018. (GeekWire Photo) Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he succeeds Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, later this year. The Chicken Wing’s 53-year-old tech manager will also face a number of challenges – from labor problems to a sprawling empire of … Read more