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Jim Mortensen, is the new President and CEO at Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville, WA. Photographed on March 8, 2019 209054 209054

Former tobacco executive is making his mark at Ste. Michelle Wine Estates

Jim Mortensen, a former senior executive at Altria, took over as the winery's boss last fall. Can a man who spent decades pitching beer and cigarettes rekindle Ste. Michelle's growth?

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Outdoor Research opened a new building in California to bring in more talent from the sewing industry.
Business

With fewer skilled stitchers to hire, Seattle-based gear company expands elsewhere

Outdoor Research has made its gloves and other gear in Seattle for more than 30 years. In searching for additional sewing workers, it went to California.

Chuck Carey built a system to isolate a digital personal assistant device to prevent what he described as “‘oops’ moments, such as ordering unwanted goods, recording conversations that should have remained private, or just annoying folks.”
Amazon

Snap! Kirkland engineer has creative way to keep Amazon’s Alexa from eavesdropping

His soundproof box keeps so-called smart speakers in the dark.

Tableau’s NorthEdge building sits on Northlake Way in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle Monday, June 10 2019. The company announced this morning it was being acquired by Salesforce in a $15.7 billion deal. 210544
Technology

Why Salesforce is shelling out $15.7 billion in stock for Seattle’s Tableau, in one of the NW’s largest acquisitions

While Salesforce sees buying Tableau as a way to create a second headquarters in Seattle, the deal also underscores how local tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have come to dominate a new model of business computing.

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Seattle Times aerospace reporter Dominic Gates near the Boeing 737 and 737MAX final assembly factory in Renton Washington on May 30, 2019. 210423
Inside The Times

Behind the Byline: Meet aerospace reporter Dominic Gates

Mitsubishi’s SpaceJet illustration. The Japanese industrial giant announced Thursday a smaller, reconfigured and rebranded model designed to hit a sweet spot for U.S. airlines.
Boeing & Aerospace

Mitsubishi revamps its regional jet as it aims for a U.S. market breakthrough

HFM JENNY KAN**A child holds his Amazon Echo Dot, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, in Kennesaw, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Amazon

Suits allege Amazon’s Alexa violates laws by recording children’s voices without consent

Tableau’s NorthEdge building sits on Northlake Way in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle Monday, June 10 2019. The company announced this morning it was being acquired by Salesforce in a $15.7 billion deal. 210544
Business

Speaking of Business: ‘That’s going to be our HQ2’

Boeing 737 MAX

A Boeing 737 Max 8 sits behind the Boeing 737 Renton factory waiting for engines. The Angle of attack (AOA) instrument of the 737 MAX, is the bottom piece of equipment below just below the cockpit windshield. Photographed on March 13, 2019 209611 209611

Boeing didn’t plan to fix 737 MAX warning light until 2020; it may have had a role in two deadly crashes

Just over seven weeks after it rolled out of the paint hangar, Boeing’s first 737 MAX “the Spirit of Renton” lifts off the runway and flew for the first time Friday, from Renton Municipal Airport at 9:48 a.m. January 29th, 2016.

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

The first flight of the Boeing 737 MAX 9, the second version of the new MAX airplane, lands at Boeing Field in Seattle on Thursday April 13, 2017.

Engineers say Boeing pushed to limit safety testing in race to certify planes, including 737 MAX

A Boeing 737 Max 8 sits behind the Boeing 737 Renton factory waiting for engines. The Angle of attack (AOA) instrument of the 737 MAX, is the bottom piece of equipment below just below the cockpit windshield. Photographed on March 13, 2019 209611

Boeing discovers flaw in sought-after 737 MAX simulator, the same kind that Ethiopian Airlines had

Technology

Apple’s iOS 13 introduces an overhaul to the iPhone’s maps software.

How updates from Apple and Google will change your smartphone

Tech Reviews & Tips

FILE – In this Sept. 25, 2015, file photo, a child holds an Apple iPhone 6S at an Apple store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) NYAG301 NYAG301

While you’re sleeping, your iPhone stays busy. Here’s what is happening and how to limit app tracking.

Real Estate

Clouds over the Seattle skyline, as seen from the Jose Rizal Bridge Sunday February 3, 2019. 209225

Seattle housing market stays cool, while Tacoma and suburbs keep up the heat

Retail

Customers and others walk past Whole Foods Market at the corner of Denny Way and Westlake Ave. in Seattle Thursday, April 18, 2019. Amazon-owned Whole Foods touted a price cut on halibut as part of an announcement recently about lower prices on hundreds of items. Amazon is trying to shed the Whole Paycheck image of the grocery chain, which has been a leader in sustainable seafood practices. Wade Bassi, of Seattle, fishes for halibut in Alaska all summer and says the halibut price advertised, about $17 a pound for fillets, is almost certainly a loss leader, meaning there’s little or no room for the retailer to profit, based on what he knows about the supply chain. 209887

Amazon-Whole Foods is two years old. And? | Commentary

Maritime Industry

The Holland America cruise ship sits in the Smith Cove Cruise Ternimal early in the morning, August 11, 2018. 207235

For crew of 2,100-passenger cruise ship, frenetic ‘turnaround day’ in Seattle starts and ends the journey

Boeing & Aerospace

Airbus executives, from left: Christian Scherer, head of sales; CEO Guillaume Faury: Dirk Hoke, head of Defense and Space; Bruno Even, head of Helicopters.

New Airbus leadership steps out in Paris Air Show, talks climate change and trashes Boeing

Amazon

Customers and others walk past Whole Foods Market at the corner of Denny Way and Westlake Ave. in Seattle Thursday, April 18, 2019. Amazon-owned Whole Foods touted a price cut on halibut as part of an announcement recently about lower prices on hundreds of items. Amazon is trying to shed the Whole Paycheck image of the grocery chain, which has been a leader in sustainable seafood practices. Wade Bassi, of Seattle, fishes for halibut in Alaska all summer and says the halibut price advertised, about $17 a pound for fillets, is almost certainly a loss leader, meaning there’s little or no room for the retailer to profit, based on what he knows about the supply chain. 209887

Amazon-Whole Foods is two years old. And? | Commentary

Amazonia

Wade Bassi, skipper and co-owner of the 106-year-old halibut fishing vessel Polaris, stands near his boat at Fisherman’s Terminal in Seattle. Bassi and his crew left the day after Easter for Alaska, where they will fish for halibut and black cod. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Alaskan halibut, caught by a century-old Seattle boat, provides a glimpse of Amazon’s strategy with Whole Foods

Microsoft

Microsoft xCloud

Microsoft xCloud game service to offer free streaming to phones  WATCH

Economy

During an orientation for new home-care aides hired, Careforce’s chief operating officer Geoff Meinken, center, talks with both Grace Wambui, left, and Terreza Kasiva, right, Thursday, May 23, 2019 in Lynnwood. The company is weathering a tough labor market. 210345

With Seattle’s entry-level workforce in high demand, employers struggle to keep up

Featured Columnist

‘Warren has a plan for that’: One contender’s detailed road map for economic change

Times Watch

The outlook for the Puget Sound economy, in 20 charts

Personal Finance

Lindsey Norden, who is the subject of a Money Makeover, at home with her dog Charlie, Tuesday, May 28, 2019 in Seattle. 210372

Student debt and credit cards cloud young woman’s financial horizon | Money Makeover

Markets

Why John Neff was one of the last true ‘star’ managers | Your Funds

 Your Funds Over breakfast one summer morning in the late 1990s, I asked Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle — creator of the index fund and staunch believer in passive investing — what he would say to anyone who suggested that frothy times had made it “a stock-picker’s market.” I can’t recall Bogle’s exact answer, but...

Artificial Intelligence

FILE- In this March 21, 2019 photo a robot called “Pepper” is positioned near an entrance to a Microsoft Store location, in Boston. Microsoft, a company that often tries to position itself as an early thinker on ethics and privacy issues, published its principles around developing artificial intelligence, released a short book that discussed the societal implications of the technology and has called for some government regulation of AI technologies. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Talk to us: What are your questions and concerns about artificial intelligence?

International Trade

In a Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, photo, Laila Ummelaila, left, a personal shopper at the Walmart store in Old Bridge, N.J., helps customer Vicky Soler load groceries onto her vehicle at an online shopping pickup location. Personal shoppers collect items on online orders and greet customers at the pickup location in the parking lot. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) NJJC216

Wal-Mart and hundreds of other companies call on Trump to drop China tariffs

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Hunt for cause of massive South America power outage begins

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout that hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and were tallying the damage from the unforeseen disaster. Argentine President Mauricio Macri promised...  VIEW