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
New York City election officials are still counting votes from the June 22nd mayor’s primary. New Yorkers will have to wait for more rounds of counting, which will be carried out according to the new ranking system. (2nd July)
How serious could the suborbital space race between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos get? (GeekWire photos) Would Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson try to steal a march from Blue Origin (and Amazon) founder Jeff Bezos when it comes to which billionaire will fly his own suborbital spaceship first? There was some excitement over the question … Read more
India could fight with the second wave of the coronavirus, rising unemployment and a dwindling economy, but the South Asian nation’s burgeoning startup ecosystem has never had it better. High profile investors in India have long been aggressively pursuing growth and late stage businesses, and record amounts of capital have flowed into the country. But … Read more
An Amazon Prime Truck in downtown Seattle near Amazon HQ. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon faces numerous lawsuits alleging that the company has created a culture that discriminates against black, Latin American, and Native American office workers. A total of five lawsuits allege that the company systematically evades minority groups in order to be … Read more
In doing research and writing about disparities, I learned to focus on how white people benefited from systemic racism: their schools have more resources, they have less police contact, they have better access to health care. However, these hallmarks of white privilege are not freedoms that racial justice activists want to take away from whites … Read more