Elizabeth Warren for President open-sources its 2020 campaign tech
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren may have ended her 2020 presidential run, but the tech used to drive her campaign will live on. Members of her staff announced they would make …
Amazon employee at Seattle-area warehouse tests positive for COVID-19
(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) A worker at Amazon’s Seattle-area warehouse in Kent, Wash. tested positive for COVID-19. This is the first known COVID-19 case at an Amazon warehouse in …
GeekWire Podcast: Coronavirus hits tech economy; life under lockdown; and a poem for our new era
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Seattle’s latest week under the cloud of the coronavirus began with Gov. Jay Inslee’s long-expected shelter-at-home announcement. It requires …
Ramona Pierson turns nearly fatal accident into success as startup founder and tech leader
Ramona Pierson with her wife, Debra, on a helicopter flight in Rwanda near the border with Uganda after trekking in gorilla country. (Photo courtesy of Ramona Pierson) In 1984, at …
Amazon shareholders submit 10 resolutions on environment, equity, lobbying and other issues
Amazon user experience designer Emily Cunningham speaks at a rally outside of the company’s shareholders’ meeting in May 2019. Employees in support of the climate resolution wore white to the …
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos pledges to help WHO flood the world with coronavirus test kits
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the World Health Organization’s director-general are trading ideas on how to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, using tools ranging from Amazon Web Services’ firepower …
Stocks shoot upward as ‘Phase Three stimulus passes Senate and unemployment skyrockets
Stocks soared on Thursday even as the US reported its worst unemployment numbers in fifty years of tracking data. The pain felt on Main Street is offset for investors by …
Amazon Canada to double pay for warehouse employees working overtime: report
Amazon says it will pay its Canadian warehouse employees working overtime double during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from The Toronto Star. Amazon plans to offer the extra …
Amazon warehouse workers organized to demand PTO, and coronavirus clinched it
Amazon never tires of explaining how great it is to work at one of its warehouses, but as usual the actual employees tell a different story. This particular group of …
Package safety: COVID-19 is ‘stable’ on cardboard for 24 hours, but risk of transmission is low
(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Should you be worried about transmitting COVID-19 from packages that arrive at your doorstep? As people rely more heavily on e-commerce companies such as Amazon …