New statistics from Amazon show the company’s total spending on jobs and infrastructure in each US state from 2010 to 2020 – and show where the tech giant has made its biggest stakes over the past decade and where there are still major gaps to fill. Amazon released the numbers to show its positive impact … Read more
A famine has struck at least 350,000 people in the conflict-ravaged region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, a famine that is currently bigger than anywhere else in the world, the United Nations and international aid agencies said on Thursday. With their joint announcement, the humanitarian officials described the looming crisis in Tigray for the first … Read more
“What happens here is important everywhere.” GeekWire’s renovated conference room, themed about the Seattle area tech community, awaits our return to the office. (BCRA Design Photo) Anniversaries are not news! This has been our stance as long as we’ve been business and tech reporters, or at least since we realized that covering arbitrary milestones would … Read more
Anthony Jackson, Safety Coordinator for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on January 19 at a new vaccination clinic on the Fred Hutch campus. (Courtesy photo by Fred Hutch / Robert Hood) With data showing racial disparities in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a new study found … Read more