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Bezos takes aim at Musk’s Twitter takeover | Banking app for teens raises $29M ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: GeekWire's annual celebration of the Pacific Northwest technology community is coming up on Thursday, May 12th: [Register now for your virtual seat!]( TODAY'S TOP STORIES Amazon’s high-tech mini-mart heads to suburbia: Away from the urban setting where it made its name, Amazon Go has gone to Mill Creek, Wash., to compete on a roadway dotted with gas stations and strip malls. The first suburban location for the convenience format with “Just Walk Out” technology brings a larger footprint with more features, including a made-to-order food counter. [GeekWire got an inside look.]( Bezos takes aim at Musk’s Twitter takeover: “Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?” the Amazon founder asked in a tweet calling out the Tesla chief’s connections to China. [Read more.]( This startup is helping to cut the BS: Modern Electron is teaming up with the Tulalip Tribes, a Western Washington dairy, and an environmental effort to convert cow manure into cleaner-burning hydrogen fuel and carbon that can be applied as fertilizer. [Read more.]( You’re on mute — new study analyzes virtual meetings: Seattle startup Read measured engagement and sentiment of participants in millions of video meeting minutes. Among the findings: 50% of participants arrive late; 11% don’t have video or audio on. [Read more.]( Banking app for teens: Seattle fintech startup Copper has attracted more than 800,000 users and [just raised $29 million to expand to investing](. Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; [and more personnel moves.]( Ex-Snowflake CEO joins RelationalAI board: The Bay Area startup building “knowledge graphs” for intelligent data apps [announced a $75 million funding round]( and added Bob Muglia to its board. Thanks for reading, and have a great day. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com, and GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser, kurt@geekwire.com. SPONSOR MESSAGE [The GeekWire Awards return May 12th!]( GeekWire’s annual celebration of the Pacific Northwest technology community is coming up on Thursday, May 12th at Showbox SoDo. [Register now for your virtual seat]( to catch the much-anticipated and hotly-contested event via live stream! LATEST HEADLINES [Virtual meeting study: 50% of participants arrive late, 22% don’t say anything]( [Cut the BS: This startup is converting cow manure into clean-burning hydrogen fuel]( [Copper, a banking app for teens with nearly 1M users, lands $29M to expand into investing]( [RelationalAI raises $75M, adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to board]( [Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; and more]( SPONSORED: GEEK REAL ESTATE [A Picturesque Retreat with 12.57 Acres]( [Inside Amazon’s first high-tech Go store in suburbia, where there’s more stuff and a made-to-order menu]( [Bezos weighs in on Musk’s Twitter takeover: ‘Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?’]( [Indicio lands $3.5M to help companies verify digital credentials using blockchain tech]( [Elon Musk will buy Twitter in $44 billion deal, promises to add features and defeat spam bots]( GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [KEXP: Software Developer (Android)]( - [National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center: Software Engineer 3]( - [CodePath.org: Senior Campus Program Manager]( - [Global Innovation Exchange, University of Washington: DIRECTOR, PARTNERSHIPS & ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS]( - [CIA: Data Scientist]( - [CodePath.org: Director of Programs]( - [National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center: Software Engineer 2]( - [CodePath.org: Full Time Instructor [Summer]]( - [Scientific Software Engineering Center: Scientific Software Engineering Center Lead]( [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](