GeekWire's Most-Read Stories of the Week

Catch up on the top tech stories from this past week. Here are the headlines that people have been reading on GeekWire. ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: GeekWire's Rooftop Summer Party + Mariners Day returns on Wednesday, September 11th: [Register today for Seattle's party of the summer.]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [Judge overturns jury verdict awarding $72M to Zunum in its dispute with Boeing]( A federal judge has thrown out a jury verdict that called for Boeing to pay $72 million to Zunum Aero, an aviation startup it once supported. [University of Washington awarded $21M in ‘Cancer Moonshot’ funding for new cell imaging techniques]( University of Washington will get up to $21.1 million out of $150 million awarded to researchers in a new phase of the "Cancer Moonshot" initiative. [Inside the Seattle labs of Xaira, the AI-powered startup launched with $1B from investors]( In a laboratory near downtown Seattle on the shores of Lake Union, Hetu Kamisetty is helping build what he says is the biotech company of the future. SPONSOR MESSAGE [GeekWire’s Rooftop Summer Party + Mariners Day is September 11th, tickets on sale now]( Take in the views, enjoy a cold beverage and connect with members of the tech community as GeekWire’s annual summer rooftop party returns. Get ready for the GeekWire Rooftop BBQ + Mariners Day, where networking meets homeruns, and innovation meets the crack of the bat. [Join the party!]( [Starbucks is setting up an office in Southern California as a hybrid outpost for its new CEO]( The hybrid work trend now includes the incoming CEO of Starbucks. [Gaming giant Valve hit with another antitrust lawsuit alleging anticompetitive practices]( A new class action lawsuit alleges that Valve Software is a “platform monopolist” that has kept game prices artificially high and prevented other companies from gaining a foothold in the digital distribution market for PC gaming. [Amazon to acquire Perceive for $80M from Xperi, expanding its AI technology for edge devices]( Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire chip maker and AI model compression company Perceive, a San Jose, Calif.-based subsidiary of publicly traded technology company Xperi, for $80 million in cash. [Tech Moves: Avanade CEO to join Microsoft; Seattle gaming vet’s new project]( — Pamela Maynard, the longtime CEO of IT services and consulting firms Avanade, is joining Microsoft in a new role as chief AI transformation officer for the tech giant’s Customer and Partner Solutions business. [Salesforce integrates Tableau’s AI-powered ‘Pulse’ feature into its flagship CRM platform]( Salesforce will expand one of Tableau’s key AI features to its core customer relationship management platform, in one of its most notable integrations since acquiring the data visualization company five years ago. [This Seattle startup studio is leaning on its Amazon leadership chops to launch new companies]( Former longtime Amazon leaders are applying lessons from their time at the tech giant to help incubate new companies at Jelly Collective, the latest startup studio to surface in Seattle. [Starbucks’ new CEO brings extensive digital experience from prior role leading Chipotle]( Starbucks has a new CEO. The Seattle coffee giant on Tuesday named Brian Niccol, who led Chipotle for the past six years, as its new chief executive officer. [Key artifacts from Microsoft and Apple history to be sold by Christie’s from Paul Allen’s collection]( Christie’s announced the items that will be auctioned in three sales from the Paul G. [Tech Moves: TerraClear’s new CEO; CoreWeave hires ex-Oracle SVP; Amperity adds revenue chief]( Devin Lammers, a longtime leader in the agriculture technology industry, joined rock-mapping and picking technology startup TerraClear as its new CEO. [GeekWire 200: Latest update highlights hottest tech startups across Seattle and Pacific Northwest]( We’re back with another update to the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top privately held technology startups in Seattle and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. [Product-related R&D jobs surge at Microsoft as operations roles decline, new numbers show]( The number of product-related research and development roles at Microsoft increased more than 12% to 81,000 positions as of June 30, from 72,000 the year before, even as the company continued to make periodic layoffs. [Mars Society gains foothold in AI, robotics and biotechnology to clear a path to space]( The Mars Society says it's making progress on launching a startup incubator with artificial intelligence and biotech as its first targets. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [INRIX: Chief Marketing Officer]( - [BRINC: Content Writer]( - [BRINC: Senior/Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer]( - [INRIX: Senior Technical Program Manager]( - [BRINC: Senior/Principal Backend & Platform Software Engineer]( - [INRIX: Software Development Engineer]( - [Gable.ai: Staff Software Engineer – Data]( - [Echodyne: Sr. Electrical Engineer – Analog & Mixed Signal]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? 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