Los Angeles-based investment firm Preylock bought the 245,000-square-foot One Esterra Park office building at 15550 Northeast Turing Street south of Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters for $225 million, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported. The sales price is more than three times its current assessed valuation, according to the Business Journal.

The Microsoft-occupied One Esterra Park office building sold this week. Located just south of Microsoft's headquarters, Esterra Park totals 28 acres and includes 2,600 apartments, a dual-branded hotel and a 3-acre park. The 245,000-square-foot office building is shown here in 2023.

This leading U.S. supermarket chain has roots in American Falls, Idaho, where founder S.M. Skaggs opened his first grocery store in 1915. In 1926, Skaggs bought the Safeway brand and 332 stores from Sam Seelig, and the chain was born.

Microsoft has announced another round of layoffs that will affect 42 employees at its Redmond campus, as reported in a state filing with the Employment Security Department. The total number of Microsoft layoffs in Washington is now more than 3,200 since May.

Amazon and Microsoft employ a lot of workers with H-1B visas… Some of them faced chaos after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation last week that dramatically increased the H-1B application fee.

Amazon and Microsoft remade the Seattle area. Now its economy is feeling the pain of the industry’s pullback.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s estate launches a $3.1B Fund for Science and Technology to back bold research in bioscience, AI, and climate.

Microsoft emailed workers Friday, urging traveling H-1B employees to return to the U.S. by Saturday and avoid future travel abroad to prevent reentry issues.