TechFlash: The 'dynamic perspective' of Amazon's Fire Phone; Zillow worth $5B

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Fire Phone: Amazon announces its first smartphone in Seattle Amazon today announced the Fire Phone, its first smartphone. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin outer space rides to be 'thrilling' but safe ​A former U.S. NASA astronaut is helping Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin give paying passengers a really good ride. Zillow joins the $5B club The Seattle-based real estate software company is now worth more than $5 billion. Amazon is so serious about drone delivery it hired D.C. lobbyists Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to talk about his company's proposed drone delivery service. But now the company is putting its money where its mouth is and buying the services of a D.C. lobbying firm Washington's Best Workplaces: Tech companies at the top The PSBJ revealed the 85 best companies to work for this week, as voted by their employees, out of the 300 that were nominated. 15 of them were tech companies. 8 things to know about Amazon's new Fire Phone Amazon announced its first smartphone today, complete with a 3D effect and a button that lets you identify anything and then buy it. Commercial real estate: Uncle Sam goes high-tech with leasing system A new web-based system allows brokers to offer space for lease to one of the region's largest users: the federal government. Seattle food-gifting startup Gratafy expands to sixth city Seattle-based startup Gratafy, which allows people to remotely send their friends menu items from popular restaurants as gifts, today expands to its sixth city. Will Microsoft's automated home clean itself? Insurance company will seed home-automation focused startups with $25,000 at Microsoft business accelerator in Redmond. BlackBerry makes app deal with Amazon Canadian company adds 240,000 new available apps with new deal with Amazon. Los Angeles County moves to Microsoft's cloud Country's largest county moves to Microsoft Office 365 for Government. National Tech News

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