GeekWire's Most-Read Stories of the Week

Catch up on the top tech stories from this past week. Here are the headlines that people have been reading on GeekWire. ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: Want $10K for your start-up?: [Voodle launches first-ever Visionaries $10K Grant for Female and/or BIPOC Founders.]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [Microsoft and Expedia announce next phases in office reopenings, finally emerging from pandemic]( Updated below with information on Expedia reopening. [Scramble the fighters! Thousands of protesters sign up to egg Jeff Bezos’ yacht at Dutch bridge site]( Nearly 5,000 people have signed up to throw eggs at Jeff Bezos’ superyacht when it sails through the Dutch city of Rotterdam this summer. [Why Microsoft’s return to the office may not be the norm across the rest of the tech industry]( What does Microsoft’s return to the office mean for everybody else? SPONSOR MESSAGE [Want $10k for your start-up?]( The Voodle Visionaries Grant is a totally asynchronous 60-second pitch contest for Female, Non-binary, and/or BIPOC Founders who are innovating for a better, and more diverse, future of work. [Learn more and apply now!]( [Remote work may end soon. But will crime still keep tech employees out of downtown Seattle?]( As the Omicron variant recedes, tech companies are eyeing a return to the office. [After wife got cancer, Microsoft engineer built a tool to locate anti-COVID drug for immunocompromised]( Rob Relyea set out to find information to help his wife. [Seattle’s Museum of Flight celebrates 1-year anniversary of Perseverance landing on Mars]( This past Friday marked one Earth year since NASA’s Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter touched down on Mars. SPONSORED: GEEK REAL ESTATE [Just Listed: Private Acre on Tiger Mountain]( [Temporal is a unicorn: Developer productivity startup lands $103M at $1.5B valuation]( The news: Temporal, a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, has reached unicorn status. [Hasbro shareholder launches campaign to spin off Wizards of the Coast business, a ‘hidden gem’]( One of Hasbro’s top shareholders has launched a campaign to overhaul Hasbro’s overall business strategy, which includes spinning Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast off into its own company. [Watch GeekWire’s Seattle offices get broken into for the third time during the pandemic]( For the third time since the onset of the pandemic, GeekWire’s offices in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood were broken into and looted early Thursday by someone who popped the lock on our door from a hallway in our multi-tenant building. [Topgolf on schedule to open Seattle-area high-tech golf entertainment complex later this year]( Construction is on schedule at the new Topgolf facility in Renton, Wash., near Seattle, the company confirmed Wednesday. [We asked chief people officers at 7 Seattle tech companies about their biggest challenge right now]( As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic — can you believe it? [The Riveter reborn: Amy Nelson and Heather Carter to lead online community and hotel co-working network as co-CEOs]( The Riveter is getting back into the co-working business, but in a very different way. [‘Downfall’ documentary casts the tale of Boeing’s 737 MAX debacle as tech tragedy]( The missteps traced in "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing" — Netflix's new documentary about Boeing's troubled 737 MAX jet — are the stuff of Greek tragedy. [As Sounders FC plant flag at Longacres, real estate developer sees big opportunity to attract tech companies to historic site south of Seattle]( RENTON, Wash. — Longacres, the storied property that once boasted a famous horse racing track and the former headquarters of Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes group, now is home to the Seattle Sounders FC. [Tech Moves: Amazon product vet joins IoT startup; Amazon comms leader moves to Lyft; Doxo adds execs; and more]( — San Diego, Calif.-based company Wiliot named Manish Bansal as chief product officer. 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