Clay Siegall built Seattle biotech firm Seagen into a $1.6B giant. Then the cops came calling

One of WA's best paid CEOs, Seagen chief Clay Siegall quit after an arrest at his home. Now, records obtained by The Seattle Times show it wasn't the first time cops came.

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Timeline: The rise and fall of Washington’s highest-paid CEO

Here’s a look at some of the most significant milestones in the history of Seagen and how they intersect with Siegall’s personal life.

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How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame

Stars on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, invite viewers into their homes virtually. What happens when one shows up in person?

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How to rid a device of a hard-to-identify virus, and tips to move photos from a phone to a PC

Patrick Marshall answers questions about rooting out tough to get malware and transfering photos from a smartphone to a PC.

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Fealty to Trump defines Republican Senate primary in Arizona

The race for Arizona Senate doesn't fit easily into the Donald Trump vs.

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Fetterman harnesses power of social media in Senate campaign

In one of this year’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, the biggest moments aren't playing out on the campaign trail.

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Navy expedites waterborne drones to close gap with China

The U.S. Navy is working to develop drone ships as it faces a growing threat from China.

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Congress OKs bill to aid computer chip firms, counter China

The House has passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the U.S.

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Facebook ends funding for US news partnerships program

Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook's News Tab as it reallocates resources in the economic downturn.

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Feds: $401M will add high-speed internet to rural US places

Federal officials announced plans Thursday to spend $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve the speed of internet for rural residents, tribes and businesses in 11 West and Central U.S. states.

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Russia fines WhatsApp, Snapchat over data storage

Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers as part of government efforts to control online activity.

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3 Senate hopefuls denounce Big Tech. They also have deep ties to it

For Republicans running for the Senate this year, Big Tech has become a catchall target, a phrase used to condemn the censorship of conservative voices on social media, invasions of privacy and the corruption of America’s youth — or all of the above.

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FTC sues to block Meta virtual reality deal as it confronts big tech

The FTC's move to block Meta from buying Within is a potential blow to Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse efforts and signals a shift in how the agency is approaching tech deals.

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Facebook parent Meta posts first revenue decline in history

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta posted its first revenue decline in history on Thursday, dragged by a drop in ad spending as the economy falters — and as competition from rival TikTok intensifies.

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FTC acts to block Meta from buying VR company, fitness app

Federal regulators have taken legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural.

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Victim of private spyware warns it can be used against US

First, her father was lured back to Rwanda under false pretenses and jailed.

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Senate passes bill to boost computer chip production in US

The Senate has passed a bill that's designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States.

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Judge: Uber doesn’t have to offer wheelchair accessibility

A California federal judge has rejected a legal push to require Uber to provide wheelchair-accessible vehicles, finding that such a mandate would be too onerous on the ride-hailing company.

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Microsoft misses the mark with fourth-quarter earnings

Share values dropped in after-hours trading after the company underperformed analyst expectations.

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Alphabet, Google’s parent, reports slowest quarterly growth in 2 years

Google’s revenue growth during the past quarter decelerated to its slowest pace in two years as advertisers reined in their spending amid fears of an economic recession.

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Buzz Aldrin flight-to-moon jacket sells at auction for $2.8M

Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million.

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Musk attorneys say Twitter stalling on document production

Attorneys for billionaire Elon Musk are complaining that Twitter is slow-walking document production in advance of a trial to decide whether Musk should be forced to complete a $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.

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Bill to boost semiconductor industry passes key Senate test

The Senate has advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and to accelerate high tech research that backers say will be critical to the economy in future decades.

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As the online pandemic boom fades, Shopify cuts 1,000 jobs

Shopify is cutting 10% of its staff, or about 1,000 employees, as the e-commerce company reckons with an unexpected sales downturn after a pandemic-fueled explosion.

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Alibaba to seek primary listing in Hong Kong, adding to NYSE

Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company, plans to apply for a primary listing in Hong Kong.

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Jenn Takahashi, chronicling the best (and worst) of Nextdoor

For anyone looking for a taste of Nextdoor’s weirdest, silliest posts — from fireworks complaints to paranoid neighbors spying on each other — Jenn Takahashi’s @BestofNextdoor Twitter account has everything.

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Ex-US congressman among 9 charged in insider trading cases

A former U.S. congressman from Indiana, technology company executives and an investment banker are among nine people charged in four separate and unrelated insider trading schemes.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy breaks from the Bezos way

Andy Jassy is proving to be a different kind of leader than Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon and stepped down as CEO last year.

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Amazon’s Alexa apps are hard to find. Perhaps ads will help

Amazon plans to beef up the apps it offers through Alexa in an effort turn the device into a money-maker.

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Fighting a brutal regime with the help of a video game

Three Myanmar-born developers have created a video game where soliders of the military that rules the nation are the targets.

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Nevada court fights raise caution flags on green energy push

Opposition from friends, not foes, is creating some potential roadblocks to President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda in the blue-leaning, Western swing state of Nevada.

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3 ways Musk can support free speech | Commentary

Shira Ovide offers suggestions on how Elon Musk could support free speech if he ends up owning Twitter.

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Would you pay $40 a month to have strangers watch you work?

People still working remotely are turning to virtual co-working spaces for accountability through a Zoom screen.

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Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition

A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite Sen. Bernie Sanders and the tea party.

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Can photos be transferred from an Android phone directly to a laptop? | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Patrick Marshall answers questions about saving photos from an Android phone to a laptop and troubleshoots some printer problems.

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T-Mobile settles to pay $350M to customers in data breach

T- Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to customers affected by a class action lawsuit filed after the company disclosed last August that personal data had been stolen in a cyberattack.

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Hyundai gets $1.8B in aid to build electric cars in Georgia

The state of Georgia and local governments are giving Hyundai Motor Group incentives worth $1.8 billion to build electric vehicles in the state.

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Jay Carney, Amazon’s top policy exec, leaves for Airbnb

The top policy and communications executive at Amazon and a one-time White House spokesman has been named the head of policy at Airbnb.

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Twitter, in Musk fight, posts surprising drop in revenue

Twitter is reporting a quarterly loss as revenue slipped even as user numbers climbed.

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Flying cars are all over the Farnborough Air Show: Will they take off?

Venture capital dollars have poured into flying taxi projects, and Boeing is all in. At Farnborough, there was excited speculation but no actual flying.

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The thrill is gone for Central Washington’s once-hot crypto industry

Washington's Columbia Basin is no longer the hot spot for crypto-miners. Many of the miners who flocked there in the middle of the last decade are now gone or out of business.

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Tomorrow’s ‘Top Gun’ might have drone wingman, use AI

Movie fighter pilots are depicted as highly trained military aviators with the skills and experience to defeat adversaries in thrilling aerial dogfights.

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Facebook gives users new way to see all their friends’ posts

Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in chronological order.

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Lawsuit: Chicago police misused ShotSpotter in murder case

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges Chicago police misused “unreliable” gunshot detection technology in investigating a grandfather from the city’s South Side and charging him with killing a neighbor.

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Amazon to buy primary care provider One Medical for $3.9B

The purchase of One Medical moves Amazon deeper into health care. The retailer in the past couple of years started an online drug store and a telemedicine program.

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GOP AGs ask Google not to limit anti-abortion clinic results

Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy clinics in certain abortion-related search results.

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Nokia 2Q profit beats expectations on strong 5G demand

Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported second-quarter profit above analyst expectations on strong demand for 5G technology from phone operators and improved competitiveness of its main business units.

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China’s Didi Global fined $1.2 billion for data violations

China’s internet watchdog has fined ride-hailing firm Didi Global more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) following an investigation into the company’s cybersecurity practices.

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Apple agrees to $50 million settlement over MacBook keyboard complaints

Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over so-called butterfly keyboards that left many users frustrated by typing failures.

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Google, Lyft are latest tech companies to hit brakes on hiring

With recession fears mounting — and inflation, the war in Ukraine and the lingering pandemic taking a toll — many tech companies are rethinking their staffing needs.

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