TechFlash: Starbucks joins Alibaba; Amazon takes your fridge online; Boeing robot

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Starbucks partners with Alibaba on e-commerce store Starbucks is partnering with Alibaba to launch an online store on Tmall. The store will help Starbucks reach the Chinese online retail giant's considerable customer base. Here's how Amazon plans to run your home — before Microsoft gets there Amazon wants you to choose its AWS over Microsoft to hook your refrigerator to the cloud. Winging it — 175-foot-long robots being readied for Boeing 777X work A Mukilteo company has about 100 people working on tooling for the 777X. Patti Payne's Cool Pads: Inside this tech and retail power couple's $3.3 million luxury Clyde Hill hideaway Rudy and Rupa Gadre are selling the Clyde Hill mansion where they raised their children. Microsoft acquires former exec Ray Ozzie's software startup Microsoft has bought Talko, a mobile app for business communication. The Talko team will join Microsoft's Skype team. New Amazon SLU buildings will be full of restaurants by some of Seattle's most famous chefs Amazon has been teaming up more and more with local restaurants – and that means more new restaurants for the neighborhood. From lumber to health care: Here are the largest Seattle-area deals of 2015 Group Health, Zulily and Plum Creek all got gobbled up. Here are the big-money deals of 2015 that will shape the Puget Sound area economy in the coming year. Amazon's new air cargo hub could be based in Ohio More national media are reporting evidence that e-commerce giant Amazon has big plans for an air cargo hub near Cincinnati. Boeing, Lockheed to continue protest of Air Force's bomber contract Boeing and Lockheed Martin call Air Force's selection process for the long-range bomber contract "irreparably flawed." National Tech News NetApp agrees to buy flash storage provider SolidFire for $870M Milwaukee's Corvisa being sold by Novation for $8.5 million Colorado CIOs plan to add, fill tech jobs in 2016 Vierck says 2016 prospects for luring new companies in New Mexico are strong Exclusive: This Scottsdale med tech startup raises nearly half a million dollars High-tech manufacturing company takes Tempe space Zenefits competitor Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) raising $50M Year in Review: 4 Orlando startups that landed a spot with high-class tech accelerators Luxury 'smart' jewelry startup snags $150K grant for medical device technology Assurex lands another $15M in financing

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