TechFlash: Juno's China company; Starbucks app bugs; Wizard's new president

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Juno Therapeutics to launch a new biotech company in China Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics, in partnership with WuXi AppTec, is forming a new Chinese company called JW Biotechnology Co. Outerwall agrees to add three dissident directors, avoids proxy fight with activist investor The move will help Outerwall avoid a proxy fight but it also gives activist hedge fund Engaged Capital a seat at the table as it continues to pressure the Bellevue-based company to make changes, including selling itself. Bugs, error messages plague Starbucks app launch Starbucks launched its new rewards program and mobile app Tuesday, but customers are getting error messages and lost rewards. Wizards of the Coast has new president — a Microsoft veteran with digital gaming credentials Greg Leeds resigned as president of Wizards of the Coast and parent company Hasbro has named a digital gaming veteran to take over. He wrote the book on Alibaba: Duncan Clark on Jack Ma's Seattle connection Author Duncan Clark wrote definitively about Ma and his empire in "Alibaba: The House that Built Jack Ma." The book, released this month, follows Ma from humble beginnings to becoming one of China's most influential entrepreneurs. But, in some ways, the story of Alibaba starts in Seattle. Washington's economy would get a $41B boost from reducing gender wage gap If the state makes steady progress to improve pay equity within the next decade, its gross domestic product would increase by about 7 percent by 2025. Tech companies could play a major role in moving the needle. 75 companies named top Corporate Philanthropists The Puget Sound Business Journal each year honors companies that give back at its annual Corporate Citizenship Luncheon and in its Corporate Citizenship: The Business of Giving special report. The May 20 edition features the list of Top Corporate Philanthropists. Lockheed, Boeing to launch space habitats for research and tourism "There's a lot of work to do," says an executive. "But is this real? Absolutely this is real, otherwise we wouldn't be excited about it." MetricStory goes beyond the numbers to find the story in your data MetricStory built a platform that connects the dots with data sets so CEOs can make sense of all the data they've been gathering. National Tech News Box teams up with Amazon, IBM in bid for global appeal Blast off: SpaceX sets date for return to Cape Canaveral Apple Watch sales expected to hit snag in 2016 Dell to put EMC exec in big role after merger Verizon prepares 'strike readiness plan' in response to threat from unionized workers

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