Bill Conroy
Washington Is Among the States Getting the Biggest Economic Boost From Immigrants, Study Finds
The state scores high in measures such as jobs generated by immigrant-owned firms and the percentage of large companies founded by immigrants
As the nation deals with a divisive debate over immigration policies, a new study offers some insight into the stakes in that debate by examining and ranking states based on the economic contributions of their immigrant populations. Washington earned a sixth-place showing in the ranking, according to the study by personal finance platform WalletHub. Among…
Alaska Airlines Plans to Hire Several Thousand New Employees This year
The projected openings cover a wide range of jobs, including pilots, flight attendants, customer-service agents and software engineers, the company says
Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier, regional airline Horizon Air, plan to hire some 2,800 employees this year across a range of jobs as the carrier continues to spread its wings as a major commercial airline company. The companys parent, Seattle-based Alaska Air Group, expects that most of the new jobs will be based at…
Tableau Softwares Acquisition Last Year Ranks as One of the Largest Tech Deals of 2019
The Seattle company was purchased by San Francisco-based Salesforce in a transaction valued at nearly $16B
In a year in which 10 mega-deals represented some 56% of the total value of all U.S. merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in the tech sector, one deal involving a Seattle company ranked among the Top 10 largest of the year, according to an analysis of M&A activity by professional-services firm PwC. San Francisco-based sales-management…
Seattles Childhood Opportunity Landscape Could Use Some Cultivation
Too many children, who represent the citys future workforce, live in neighborhoods where conditions make it hard to thrive, study finds
The Seattle metro area is not exactly excelling in ensuring optimal conditions for shaping the health and development of children overall, a new study finds, and the situation is even more dire in the case of children of color results that should be of interest to area employers looking to develop a future workforce. Seattle…
Female Founders Alliance Expands Its Reach With Business-Incubator Acquisition
The deal amplifies the organizations ability to accelerate the success of women-founded businesses nationally, founder says
The Female Founders Alliance (FFA), a Seattle-based organization focused on accelerating the success of women-founded, venture capital-scalable companies, has acquired New York-based Monarq Incubator. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, makes FFA the largest network of its kind nationally, giving it a footprint in all major tech hubs in the country. Monarq Incubator…
Homeownership in Seattle Is Super Expensive, But the City Is Far Better Off Than the Worst-Case Examples
Narrowing the gap between income and home prices matters in making good on the dream of homeownership for more families, study shows
Seattle is without doubt one of the more expensive cities in the nation in which to own a home, but its not among the top 10 most expensive housing markets. In fact, Seattle is on the lower end of the top 20 least-affordable housing markets nationally, according to a recent housing-affordability analysis study. New York-based…
Seattle Times Cutting 42 Jobs as Part of Printing Plant Sale to Fund News Operations
The owners of the daily newspaper have been selling off properties in recent years to subsidize newsroom costs
In a sign of the continuing hard times for the daily newspaper industry as it struggles to compete in the still-burgeoning digital news era, the Seattle Times has filed a federal WARN Act notice indicating that it will be permanently laying off 42 workers at its North Creek printing plant in Bothell in March as…
TV Deals, Including the Sale of Two Seattle Stations, Dominated Q4 Broadcast-Market Transactions
The fourth-quarter acquisitions expand New York-based Fox Corp.s TV ownership stake in the Seattle market
The fourth-quarter acquisitions expand New York-based Fox Corp.’s TV ownership stake in the Seattle market