Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 12, 2022.
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Seattle real estate company Redfin announced Tuesday that it is cutting about 8% of its workforce, acknowledging that a housing downturn in the U.S. … Read More

Eight years ago, Seattle-area entrepreneur Peter Polson decided to pursue what he perceived as a gap in the personal finance software market, inspired by his growing family’s increasingly complex needs for tracking its finances, and disappointed by the available options at the time. … Read More

Seattle ranked ninth in the Startup Genome’s annual global startup ecosystem rankings, up one position from its spot last year. … Read More

While Siri and Alexa are busy getting you the day’s weather forecast or tracking down the name of the capital of some distant country, Xena has work to do. … Read More

Textio, an augmented writing platform, has completed a review of written, job performance feedback from more than 25,000 employees at 250 organizations. … Read More

Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI, is stepping down from the artificial intelligence research organization he helped launch nearly nine years ago. … Read More

Seattle has proven itself to be a premier location for soccer in the United States. … Read More

Sony released its revamped PlayStation Plus subscription service on Monday, which places its service in indirect competition with Microsoft’s Game Pass. … Read More

Stratolaunch says its mammoth carrier airplane rose to its highest altitude yet during its seventh flight test over California’s Mojave Desert. … Read More

Real estate brokerage Compass is shutting down its Modus title business as part of cost-cutting moves the New York City company made this week. … Read More