GeekWire Mid-Week Update, Presented by Wells Fargo

Read the top tech stories so far this week from GeekWire [GeekWire Mid-Week Update] Top stories so far this week [Microsoft and Expedia announce next phases in office reopenings, finally emerging from pandemic]( Updated below with information on Expedia reopening. [Scramble the fighters! Thousands of protesters sign up to egg Jeff Bezos’ yacht at Dutch bridge site]( Nearly 5,000 people have signed up to throw eggs at Jeff Bezos’ superyacht when it sails through the Dutch city of Rotterdam this summer. [Why Microsoft’s return to the office may not be the norm across the rest of the tech industry]( What does Microsoft’s return to the office mean for everybody else? SPONSOR MESSAGE [Sandy Cairns, Senior Wealth Planning Strategist at Wells Fargo Bank, explains how tech startup founders and early-stage employees can develop wealth and tax planning strategies.]( Learn what you can do now to potentially reduce your tax burden and make the most of your hard work for you and your loved ones. Meeting with your key advisors now to talk about what’s best for you may be time well spent. [Learn more here.]( [Super Bowl ad: Amazon reveals first official trailer for ‘Lord of the Rings’ series]( Amazon paid for a 1-minute Super Bowl ad to reveal the first official trailer for the company’s new prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” series, called “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The upcoming series debuts on Prime Video on Sept. [Temporal is a unicorn: Developer productivity startup lands $103M at $1.5B valuation]( The news: Temporal, a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, has reached unicorn status. [GeekWire Podcast: The realities of Amazon’s pay increase; inside Microsoft’s HoloLens business]( Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week, Ashley Stewart, is a Seattle-based senior tech correspondent for Insider who reports on Microsoft and Amazon. [Proxi morphs from trick-or-treating tool to an ambitious mapping startup that just raised $1.2M]( Melinda Haughey and other parents were desperate for safe trick-or-treating in the midst of the pandemic in 2020. [Billionaire kicks off new orbital missions with SpaceX, featuring spacewalk and Starlink tests]( Five months after billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman led a crew for a privately funded philanthropic space mission, he’s doing it again. [Kids are non-consenting stars of some family ‘vlogs’ — and a high schooler wants to change that]( In the most wholesome scenarios, social media allows families to connect with friends and loved ones, sharing their kids’ milestones, as well as snapshots of daily life. [The ‘golden age’ for research tools: Parse Biosciences raises $41.5M for single-cell tech]( Alex Rosenberg was a postdoc at the University of Washington when he co-founded a new biotech startup in 2018 and took the helm as CEO. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [Hazel Analytics: Product Manager]( - [City of Gresham: Technical Support Specialist]( - [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Machine Learning Engineer III]( - [Richmond International Airport: Director of Information Technology, Richmond Airport]( - [Flyhomes: Director of Infrastructure]( - [Global Innovation Exchange, University of Washington: Director, Professional Learning Programs]( - [Hazel Analytics: Digital Marketing Specialist]( - [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: DevOps Engineer III]( - [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Data Engineer III]( - [s2s Public Relations and Communication: Science Communications Senior Advisor]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? BUY A FEATURED LISTING TO APPEAR HERE]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise]( Copyright © 2022 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC.  Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 123 NW 36th St, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98107  [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](