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Matt Day
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Driving and riding a series of compounding s-curves. Writing about Amazon, Microsoft and tech for Bloomberg News in Seattle.
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The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post has a slightly different take:
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November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop announced Thursday that effectively suspends America’s traditional role as a haven for those fleeing war and persecution.
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Not a banner day for the Microsoft Investor Relations page, as the company's cloud continues to suffer from a service outage. An hourish until they report earnings.
A dated capture of a Microsoft investor relations page that you find via the top Bing hit for "Microsoft IR." Helpfully informing us of some coming events in August and September 2024. Service Unavailable - DNS failure Above a dropdown menu to browse past earnings release dates.
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Hello computer. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Best part of this delicious looking @bethanyjeanclement.bsky.social recipe is carrots in all caps & with the dash makes it look like a dateline.

BJC here, reporting from CARROTS

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Skip Ad By Bethany Jean Clement Seattle Times food writer CARROTS — WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?! Our household eats a lot of them, mostly raw, cold from the fridge, as orange as anything besides an actual orange can be, and always faultlessly crunchy.
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Neil Young has had a change of heart.
2019 Amazon press release, including this bit: “Earth will be changed forever when Amazon introduces high quality streaming to the masses,” said rock icon Neil Young. “This will be the biggest thing to happen in music since the introduction of digital audio 40 years ago.” "FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS FORGET FACEBOOK BUY LOCAL BUY DIRECT BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT"
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Always up for a good Which Puget Sound City Has The Upper Hand yarn, but if you're trendspotting Bellevue, it's worth reckoning with the fact that the Micro-Soft Corporation moved it's headquarters there in 1979.
WSJ headline: Tech Companies Can’t Get Enough of This Picturesque Seattle Suburb
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Panos is assembling a team.
To reshape Amazon’s hardware group, Panay has brought in collaborators from his Microsoft days, as well as veterans from Amazon itself. The team includes Aidan Marcuss, who worked on Windows until last year and now heads Amazon’s TV business, as well as J Allard, the co-inventor of Xbox who now leads a team focused on new form factors. Ring creator Jamie Siminoff, meanwhile, returned earlier this year. Perhaps the most significant addition is the German-born Groene, who left his Microsoft role when Panay exited. When Groene joined Amazon eight months ago, his first order of business was bringing all of the company’s designers — across hardware, software and user experience — under one roof. That created a structure similar to the way Apple develops its products.
September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The world's biggest supercomputer, and many of its best minds, working feverishly to invent a newfangled Yahoo dot com landing page.
Earlier this year, for instance, I sought to make a habit of checking in with Copilot Daily, a morning digest Microsoft Corp. added to its consumer chatbot app featuring widgets for weather and headlines. While refreshingly colorful compared with the stark AI interfaces I was accustomed to, the habit didn’t stick. An AI-generated voice briefing of news sounded like an eerie substitute for human equivalents accessible from countless media outlets, and Copilot’s list of suggested MSN links and conversation topics (“tips to maximize your travel fun”) was too often generic.
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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I have some notes
Big sign over a grocery store. "America Northwest Seafood" over images of a crab and the state of Maryland.
September 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Staggering numbers
The gap in income between Seattle’s highest and lowest earning racial/ethnic groups was among the largest in the nation last year, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2024, households headed by an Asian person had the highest median income in Seattle, estimated at around $141,300. Households headed by a Black person had the lowest median income last year, estimated at around $63,600.
September 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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#newsface
Bloomberg TV screen. Stock ticker and headline. Two guys. One, professional. One, me, mouth hanging open, doing a squinty eyebrow raise (?)
September 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Some Labor Day-adjacent reflections on Microsoft's No Azure for Apartheid activists:
Flash point Last week, seven tech workers strolled into Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith’s corner office and locked the door behind them. In the 2 ½ minutes before Microsoft security started the process of ejecting them, the activists rearranged the furniture, taped pro-Palestinian banners to the windows, and made their group, “No Azure for Apartheid,” Big Tech’s employee movement of the moment.
September 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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extraordinarily rare press conference at Microsoft in Redmond today, hours after protesters occupied Brad Smith's office. "We need to uphold our human rights standards and we will," he said.
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Microsoft president Brad Smith sitting on his desk and speaking in front of TV cameras.
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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More:
August 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Police moved in. 10+ protesters handcuffed or zip tied and arrested.
Three police officers carrying a protester. He's horizontal maybe two feet from the ground.
August 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Back for a second day.
Tents. Palestinian flags. Bikes and upturned tables making a sort of barricade. Few masked protesters, and police and onlookers beyond
August 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Glorious ads, too
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August 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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So they found some public right of way.
Few dozen protesters assembled on some sidewalk by a pedestrian bridge and bike path.
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Redmond police officer said the protesters were trespassing and subject to arrest. A few minutes later it looked like this:
A single blue tent in front of the Microsoft logo. A police officer, some security guards.
August 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Looked something like this:
A few dozen people in front of a huge Microsoft logo. Office building in the background. Banner reads Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Same
Headline No One Heeds My Warnings, Even Though I'm Usually Right
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Jeff Bezos found a lot of good fortune on the way to becoming Jeff Bezos. One big element was having a mom who went to bat for him, constantly.
Jackie died today at 78.
August 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Not usually a Posting About Customer Service Complaints kind of guy, but ...What, post office?
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August 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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wheeeeeeeeeeee
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A chart "Microsoft's capital spending hits records on AI boom" $2, $3, $4 billion a quarter for 2018, bit more in 2019, 2020, starts going bonkers in 2021, all the way up to $30 billion+ in Q1 2026.
July 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM