Uber and Lyft seek to block Seattle from revealing ridership data, how Microsoft Office works on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar, NBA in VR, and more

Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser]. [Wireless Power Summit] October 28, 2016 [Top Stories] [Find a Job] [GeekWire Events] [GeekWire 200] [Become a Member] Sonic Evolution, 11/11 at Benaroya Hall [Seattle Symphony’s Sonic Evolution, defined by its genre blending & unpredictability.] Today's top stories [Uber and Lyft await ruling in suit seeking to block Seattle from releasing ride data] By Monica Nickelsburg Uber and Lyft are suing the city of Seattle as part of an ongoing legal crusade to prevent public records requests from revealing their internal data. [Washington Gov. Inslee throws support behind life sciences innovation, tells industry to pressure legislators] By Clare McGrane Washington state’s life sciences sector experienced a huge boom in the early 2000s, even thriving during the great recession. Sponsored Post [The Rise of the Experience Design Engineer™] At Level 11, we embody the rise of the Experience Design Engineer™(XDE™). We employ design thinking to invent new brand experiences. Our focus on the practice of Digital Transformation has led us to our Experience Design Engineering™ methodology. Using out XDE™ methodology, we fundamentally change the way consumers engage, experience, and interact with your brand across every touchpoint in your connected ecosystem—physical, digital, in-store, online, mobile, wearable, Internet of Things—across the lifecycle of your customers. Provide your customers the experience they expect—Be Disruptive™ and learn how to achieve Digital Transformation by connecting with Level 11. Email us at [info@level.com] [Geek of the Week: Joel Eby, longtime creative force at POP, makes the ‘unexpected’ happen] By Kurt Schlosser The POP website currently opens with an overlay of text that reads, “Make things happen.” Joel Eby, a creative team leader, has been doing that at the large Seattle agency for more than 15 years. [‘Failure and innovation are inseparable twins’: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offers 7 leadership principles] By Taylor Soper You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you. [Watching an NBA game in virtual reality: Some ‘wow’ moments, but I prefer the regular broadcast] By Taylor Soper I’ve never sat courtside as a fan at an NBA game. [Look out Alibaba: Amazon brings Prime to China in bid to take on e-commerce rival] By Nat Levy Amazon has expanded its Prime subscription program to China in a move to compete with the country’s dominant e-commerce player Alibaba. [New Horizons probe finishes transmitting data from Pluto flyby after 15 months] By Alan Boyle More than 15 months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, the last bit of data from the flyby has finally been transmitted back to Earth. [How Microsoft Office will work on Apple’s new MacBook Pro Touch Bar] By Todd Bishop Microsoft’s Office team knows a few things about toolbars that show different buttons depending on what the user is doing at any given moment. [Startup Spotlight: Venture Kits helps expose kids to entrepreneurship with ‘business in a box’ toy] By Monica Nickelsburg Most young children don’t say “CEO,” when asked what they want to be when they grow up. [#WeAreTwitter campaign wants users to buy the platform and turn it into a co-op] By Monica Nickelsburg It’s been a rough year for Twitter. [Expedia’s gross bookings surge 21% as travel giant adds 14K lodging options during Q3] By Nat Levy A lot more people are using Expedia to book hotels than did so last year. [Forever young: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos backs biotech startup developing anti-aging therapies] By Clare McGrane Is Jeff Bezos looking for the fountain of youth? [Amazon Web Services third-quarter sales climb 55%, reaching a record $3.2 billion] By Dan Richman Amazon Web Services generated a record-breaking 9.9 percent of its parent company’s net sales for the quarter ended Sept. [Amazon tops 300,000 employees in latest sign of tech giant’s massive ambitions] By Todd Bishop Updated with comments from Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky. [Zillow partners with Facebook to help agents better connect with home shoppers and sellers] By Kurt Schlosser Zillow is boosting its ads and expanding their reach with a new product and a new Facebook partnership aimed at helping Premier Agents attract more home shoppers and sellers, the Seattle-based real estate media company announced Thursday. [Google parent company Alphabet beats earnings expectations with $22.5B in revenue] By Taylor Soper Google parent company Alphabet saw shares slightly rise after beating analyst expectations for its third quarter earnings report. [Amazon posts $32.7B in revenue, up 29%, but profits fall well short of Wall Street expectations] By Todd Bishop Updated with comments from Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky. [Microsoft vets raise $2M to manage internet-connected devices in commercial buildings] By Dan Richman   Four Microsoft veterans have teamed up to create Optio3, a Seattle-based startup aimed at building a web-based service that helps manage commercial facilities like hotels, offices, universities and malls, with a focus on controlling the myriad internet-connected devices within those facilities. [Whose data is it anyway? FCC issues rare pro-privacy ruling limiting personal information internet providers can sell] By Bob Sullivan The FCC today ruled that when it comes to your personal information, Internet service providers (IPS) are more like telephone companies and less like websites — and so it has limited ISP’s ability to make money by digitally stalking you and selling that data. [Seattle bumps Boston as the most expensive U.S. housing market that’s not in California] By Kurt Schlosser The battle for most expensive housing market outside of California has been a neck-and-neck affair for the past several months between Seattle and Boston. [GeekWire Deals: Pay what you want for this ethical hacking bundle ($1,271 value)] By Christie Brydon Increased cybersecurity threats call for increased demand in ethical hackers. [GeekWire Calendar Picks: SpaceFest 2016, Jet City Comic Show, SciTech Northwest, and more] By Clare McGrane With Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to colonize Mars within a century, space has been on a lot of folks’ minds this past month. 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