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Tech companies urge Congress to drop fight against net neutrality rules
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Net neutrality protest at the White House in November 2014. (credit: Stephen Melkisethian)

A group of tech companies has urged Congressional leadership to abandon a GOP plan to kill the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

Budget proposals have included provisions preventing the FCC from continuing to enforce the rules that took effect in June, at least...

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Tech Moves: Adaptive CFO joins Trupanion board; Avvo lands recruiting bigwig; Automic names CTO
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Chad Cohen
— Pet insurance company Trupanion announced changes to its board of directors on Friday, as Adaptive Biotechnologies CFO Chad Cohen was appointed to the board. He takes over for Peter Beaumont, a longtime veterinary industry expert who stepped down after five years on the board. Cohen is well known in the Seattle tech scene, having...
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Tech Moves: Former Concur exec takes over Shiftboard, Indochino gets a new chief, and more
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Sterling Wilson
— Early Concur executive Sterling Wilson is the new CEO of Seattle-based employee management software company Shiftboard. He joins the 13-year-old company as the Shiftboard founder and former CEO Bryan Lhuillier transitions to a Chief Product Officer role, a position he has held from time to time over the years. Shiftboard makes cloud-based tools to help organizations — from nonprofits to 10,000-person...
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Senators revive bill requiring tech sector to report online terror activity
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One of the shooters in last week's deadly attack pledged her allegiance to ISIS on Facebook the same day she and her husband went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people in a San Bernardino County government building. In response, high-ranking Senators revived legislation Tuesday requiring the tech sector, like Facebook and Twitter, to...
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Sneak peek: Drawings show plans for new U.S.-China tech graduate campus in Seattle area
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Design proposals for UW's new Global Innovation Exchange, or GIX. The Global Innovation Exchange has submitted designs for its new facility in Bellevue, Wash., where students from around the world will learn about technology and entrepreneurship in a groundbreaking partnership between Seattle’s University of Washington and China’s Tsinghua University. The collaboration, which represents the first time...
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GeekWire’s 2015 Newsmakers of the Year: These industry leaders made their mark in tech, science and space
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It has been another giant year for technology and science in the Seattle region — featuring everything from rocket launches to big financing rounds to breakthrough devices and huge acquisitions. Microsoft is showing new signs of life, while Amazon is experiencing unprecedented growth amid new questions about its workplace culture. Meanwhile, new biotech companies are making major strides against cancer...
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This massive map shows how Seattle’s tech ecosystem has evolved over the last 30 years
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To help quantify the recent history of the Seattle technology ecosystem in visual form, Madrona Venture Group and the Washington Technology Industry Association today unveiled the “Seattle Tech Universe” map, a massive outline of more than 600 local tech companies in Washington. What’s unique about this particular map is that it shows how past employees from local companies...
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