Technology
Amazon Connects Your Palm to Your Wallet
Amazon One, the tech giants new palm scanning technology, will first be implemented in two Amazon Go stores in Seattle
Amazon has new technology that allows you to pay with your palm. The bio-authentication technology, called Amazon One, allows users to connect their palm signatures to a credit card. To pay, users hover their palms over an Amazon One device to identify themselves.The Seattle-based e-commerce company will debut the Amazon One technology in two Amazon…
Amazon to Hire 100k More Employees in U.S., Canada
Many of the new hires will work in the 100 new operations facilities that the Seattle-based tech company will open in September
Amazon is hiring 100,000 more part- and full-time employees. Many of the new hires will work in the 100 new operations facilities that the Seattle-based tech company will open in September, including fulfillment centers and delivery stations. The company will offer a base salary of $15 and sign-on bonuses of $1,000 in certain cities. The…
Amazon Connects Your Palm to Your Wallet
Amazon One, the tech giants new palm scanning technology, will first be implemented in two Amazon Go stores in Seattle
Amazon has new technology that allows you to pay with your palm. The bio-authentication technology, called Amazon One, allows users to connect their palm signatures to a credit card. To pay, users hover their palms over an Amazon One device to identify themselves.The Seattle-based e-commerce company will debut the Amazon One technology in two Amazon…
Amazon to Hire 100k More Employees in U.S., Canada
Many of the new hires will work in the 100 new operations facilities that the Seattle-based tech company will open in September
Amazon is hiring 100,000 more part- and full-time employees. Many of the new hires will work in the 100 new operations facilities that the Seattle-based tech company will open in September, including fulfillment centers and delivery stations. The company will offer a base salary of $15 and sign-on bonuses of $1,000 in certain cities. The…
Amazon to Bring 10,000 Jobs to Bellevue
The new jobs are in addition to the 15,000 the tech giant announced it would bring to Bellevue last February
Amazon announced Friday that it will bring 10,000 more jobs to Bellevue in the next few years as it increasingly distances itself from its Seattle headquarters. To make room for the new hires, Amazon has leased 2 million square feet of office space in downtown Bellevue from Vulcan, a Seattle-based real estate company. The properties…
Seattle Software-as-a-Service Firm Banzai Completes $7M Funding Round
The companys event-marketing automation software is used by some of the largest tech companies in the country
Despite the shadow of the coronavirus outbreak threatening to put the brakes on many public gatherings, the fact that some venture capital firms are still willing to bet on a brighter future is proving to be good news Banzai, a Seattle-based provider of event-marketing automation software that has just raised $7 million in equity financing…
Seattle Big Data Startup Kaskada Raises $8M
The tech company has created a platform that promises to increase the efficiency of developing machine-learning algorithms
Seattle startup Kaskada, a tech company that provides a platform for data scientists and engineers to better collaborate in developing machine-learning algorithms, has successfully completed an $8 million funding round, bringing the total raised by the company to date to $9.8 million. Kaskada plans to use the funding to fuel the companys growth, expand its…
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…
New Coalition Formed to Protect the Social Games Industry in Washington
The group seeks to support local tech jobs by addressing the growing threat of a social games prohibition
A newly formed coalition of civic leaders, industry experts and tech executives in Washington, dubbed Game On WA, is leading an effort to ensure the state doesnt restrict access to so-called social games, which are played statewide by millions and support thousands of local jobs, according to the coalition. The fear of restrictions or bans…
Seattle Tech Workers Are Among the Highest-Paid in the Country
The bad news is that, on average, men are paid more than women for the same tech roles, a recent survey shows
Tech workers in Seattle command the second-highest average annual salary among major U.S. tech hubs, though men make more than women, and Microsoft ranks as the most desirable company to work for among local tech talent, according to a recent study by tech-job marketplace Hired.com. The study, based on a survey of 3,800 tech workers…