TechFlash: An Amazon retail store in Manhattan?; Facebook could move to Macy's

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Amazon to open first physical store in Manhattan Amazon is opening a retail store in Manhattan this year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Facebook shopping for Seattle office space in unlikely place: Macy's The downtown location is not far from Facebook's original Seattle office at First and Pike Amazon's new location is 'brilliant — but it's not a retail store,' analysts say Amazon's first brick-and-mortar location in New York will serve as a service center for customers, not a typical retail store, analysts said. After raising $105M, Adaptive Biotechnologies wants to be the 'Facebook or Google of biotech recruiting' The immunosequencing platform company will make as many as 70 new hires and create an automated robotics facility. Top-secret clearance for a programmer? Amazon hiring spies in the cloud in Seattle Amazon is hiring engineers in Seattle to work on its private cloud service for U.S. intelligence agencies. Paul Allen to help boost Boeing competitor into space Sierra Nevada Corp. came to Boeing country Wednesday, and the company's message was this: "Don't write us off yet." Tech execs fear continuing government surveillance High-profile tech executives joined forces with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at an event Wednesday to talk about U.S. surveillance and what tech companies are doing to halt it in the absence of policies that protect consumers. Washington has highest cell phone taxes and fees in the U.S., says study ​Washington state has the highest cell phone taxes and fees in the country, according to a new study. Amazon says 'Transparent' TV series is a big hit Amazon says the success of its TV series about a transgendered parent in Los Angeles means "Transparent" will have a second season. National Tech News

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