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Not quite a laptop, not quite a lean-back tablet, how are you supposed to sit with an iPad Pro and do work? MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by John Brecher

Just because Apple’s new iPad Pro is as fast as a laptop doesn’t make it as useful as one | Tech Review  WATCH

Tech Reviews & Tips

Mike Isaac, a New York Times technology reporter, talks with his colleague Farhad Manjoo through Facebook’s new Portal video-calling device, in San Francisco, Nov. 7, 2018. Portal and devices like it are stationary and always on. But Facebook’s new device has software that follows you around a room. (Preston Gannaway/The New York Times)

We tried Facebook’s new Portal device (so you don’t have to)

Real Estate

Docks extend from houses in the Laurelhurst neighborhood in this aerial photo taken on Thursday, March 17, 2016.

King County’s secret all-cash homebuyers must reveal true identity to law enforcement

Retail

In this Aug. 23, 2018, photo former Toys R Us employee Ann Marie Reinhart listens during the public comments portion of an investment advisory committee meeting of the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer in Raleigh, N.C. Reinhart is the lead plaintiff for Toys R Us workers in a bankruptcy case. Two private equity owners of Toys R Us announced Tuesday, Nov. 20, that they will be handing over a $20 million hardship fund to the thousands of former workers left jobless and without severance after the chain liquidated in June. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) NCGB104 NCGB104

Former Toys R Us workers to get $20M in ‘unprecedented’ hardship fund  VIEW

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

FILE – In this Tuesday, March 20, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump holds a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) NY343 NY343

Trump again uses arms sales to justify Saudi ties, dragging US defense contractors into an unwelcome debate

Amazon

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, speaks at The Economic Club of Washington’s Milestone Celebration in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Bezos said that he is giving $2 billion to start the Bezos Day One Fund which will open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to nonprofits that helps homeless families. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos donates $97.5 million to nonprofit groups helping homeless

Amazonia

Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is now America’s biggest company town

Microsoft

Microsoft, Google and other tech firms pledge training for workers in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is seeking to increase the digital skills of its workers as the shift to greater use of robots and other automation threatens to rob those without technological savvy of opportunities for employment, even in manufacturing and service industries.

Starbucks

Starbucks headquarters after the company announced 350 layoffs, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. 208483

Starbucks laying off 350 people, mostly at Seattle headquarters

Economy

People line up to check out as they shop a Black Friday sale at a Best Buy store on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017, in Overland Park, Kan. Shoppers are hitting the stores on Thanksgiving as retailers under pressure look for ways to poach shoppers from their rivals. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Monday Memo: Thanksgiving market closures and Black Friday crowds

Featured Columnist

Amazon picks additional ‘homes,’ and a fresh story begins

Times Watch

The outlook for the Puget Sound economy, in 20 charts

Personal Finance

Jeremiah and Michelle Hooks face some household financial challenges, mostly due to their student loans. (Rebekah Welch / The Seattle Times)

How one young couple is paying down massive college debt | Money Makeover

Markets

People on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange moments before the closing bell, Nov. 20, 2018. The stock market’s gains for 2018 were erased on Tuesday, as a sell-off led by giant technology stocks continued. The renewed declines in the United States came after drops in Asia and Europe. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)

Worst day of an awful year leaves no corner of U.S. financial markets unscathed

Special Report: CEO Pay

CEO Pay 2018. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)

Some Northwest CEOs earn 200 or 400 times what the average employee is paid

International Trade

Harvesting soybeans near a wind farm south of Luverne, N.D., Oct. 29, 2018. Voters in red states largely shrugged off concerns about the economic effect of President Trump’s global trade war, throwing their support behind Republican candidates who embraced the administration’s protectionist agenda despite attempts by Democrats to turn it into a wedge issue. (Dan Koeck/The New York Times) XNYT257 XNYT257

A $12 billion program to help farmers stung by trade war has aided few

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