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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

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan walks into the U.S. State Department, Thursday, May 23, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) DCPS105

Ex-Boeing exec Patrick Shanahan bows out of running to be Trump's defense secretary

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

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‘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

Specialist Mario Picone, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street following big gains in Europe after the head of the European Central Bank said it was ready to cut interest rates and provide more economic stimulus if necessary. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NYRD107 NYRD107

Optimism over trade sends US stocks sharply higher  VIEW

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)

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International Trade

European Central Bank hints at stimulus — drawing Trump ire

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank could unleash more stimulus if the economy doesn't pick up soon, its president warned Tuesday, sparking a sharp drop in the euro and drawing an angry tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump. Mario Draghi told a conference in Sintra, Portugal, that the ECB was not resigned in...

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Google pledges $1B to tackle housing problem it help create

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is making a $1 billion commitment to address the soaring price of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, a problem that the internet company and its Silicon Valley peers helped create as the technology industry hired tens of thousands of high-paid workers. The pledge announced Tuesday by Google CEO...