Anna Edgerton
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Seattle bureau chief for Bloomberg @Business. Former Brazil correspondent. North Carolina native.
Seattle, WA
Joined September 2010
The city of Seattle is pretty small. Fewer than 150,000 voters have the power to pick Seattle's next mayor, setting the tone for region of 4.5 million people. Looks like Katie Wilson has convinced enough people that she has what it takes. https://t.co/INwy8AZ3mw via @business
bloomberg.com
The progressive challenger seeking to oust Seattle’s business-friendly mayor widened her slim lead as the final votes are tallied from the Nov. 4 election, but the race remains undecided and likely...
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Finding progressive revenue in Seattle, without the option of an income tax, requires some creativity. And that's a big part of Katie Wilson's pitch to be the city's next mayor. https://t.co/onYdixTlTS via @business
bloomberg.com
Seattle is about to find out how progressive it really is as a surprisingly close mayoral election pits the moderate incumbent against a community organizer campaigning to raise taxes on companies...
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That game is why I love baseball. Insane night. I want the Mariners to win the whole thing.
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Want to understand what redistricting in Texas looks like and what it means for representation in Congress? Great combination of super interesting maps and thoughtful reporting here: https://t.co/M0H2lejFSD via @business @BBGVisualData by @elena___mejia @j_lovinger
bloomberg.com
Federal judges in Texas this week will weigh whether the state’s newly drawn congressional map unlawfully dilutes the voting power of racial minorities, bringing to a head a redistricting battle that...
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NEWS: Australia's 2nd largest pension fund walks away from the Bravern office buildings in #Bellevue after Microsoft's exit left the two towers totally empty https://t.co/7VAQPZmJf0
#cre #RealEstate #cmbs via @business with @JohnGittelsohn @mel_bourke
bloomberg.com
Australian Retirement Trust, the nation’s no. 2 pension fund, is defaulting on a loan that funded the purchase of a US office complex once occupied by Microsoft Corp., underscoring the continued...
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EXCLUSIVE: Members of New York City’s business community are forming an advisory group in an effort to guide mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if he wins the election in November. Gift link here: https://t.co/MBYknzILYU
bloomberg.com
Members of New York City’s business community are forming an advisory group in an effort to guide mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if he wins the election in November.
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🫨A bit of a chaotic morning here in Tokyo with a powerful tremor leading to tsunami warnings from US to Japan. With @maryhui and @annaedge4
https://t.co/XDjvL8kG2D
bloomberg.com
Coastal regions from Chile to the western US were on edge after a powerful earthquake in Russia’s Far East triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific, though warnings in Hawaii and Japan...
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"But when Copilot pops up on Jominy’s computer screen, it’s typically an accident — the result of a mistaken push of what used to be a control key."
I've been diving into Microsoft's Copilot recently. (The personal companion, not to be confused of the workplace app with of the same name…) How's it doing? Not as good as ChatGPT (but nobody is) (🧵)
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Tune in at 3:25 PT to hear me talk about about local resiliency with Seattle and King County leaders:
LIVE: #BloombergGreen concludes with @SeattleOSE’s Jessyn Farrell, @yassaminansari, @RevYearwood, @AlaskaAir’s Ryan Spies, @SeattleKraken’s Samantha Holloway, and more. https://t.co/4adoRApVOW
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LIVE: #BloombergGreen concludes with @SeattleOSE’s Jessyn Farrell, @yassaminansari, @RevYearwood, @AlaskaAir’s Ryan Spies, @SeattleKraken’s Samantha Holloway, and more. https://t.co/4adoRApVOW
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Hedera’s Hashgraph replaces blockchain’s linear chain of blocks with a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), where transactions confirm each other asynchronously, similar to how news spreads by word of mouth The result: parallel consensus, sub-second finality, high throughput & low fees
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NOW: #BloombergGreen Seattle continues with @patagonia’s @RyanGellert, @Ford’s @BobHolycross, @UCSUSA’s @GGoldman46, @khoslaventures’ @vkhosla, @CDCgov’s Paul Schramm, and more. https://t.co/ewBmwwGGhb
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TUNE IN: A lack of federal climate action isn't stopping local governments from pursuing solutions to keep their communities safe, healthy and resilient. @business' @annaedge4 sits down with @CityofSeattle Deputy Mayor Jessyn Farrell at #BloombergGreen. Live 7/15 at 3:35 PM PDT!
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Bloomberg Green Festival starts next week in Seattle! Check out this link to see our great lineup of speakers and request to attend. You can also register for the Green Docs screening: https://t.co/KtVkI6JhDz via @business @BloombergLive
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NC-based polling group called the Mamdani win in NYC.
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Bellevue's potential attracts New York developer Larry Silverstein, best known for rebuilding the World Trade Center. “Everything is affected by the flow of capital and the decision by people of means to locate to different areas." https://t.co/MbiT114wtJ via @business
bloomberg.com
Billionaire’s firm has taken over ownership of Avenue, a luxury condo and hotel project in fast-growing Bellevue.
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SCOOP: TikTok's office near Seattle is feeling more like a Chinese company as leaders from China replace US-hired bosses. Lagging US sales has ByteDance aiming to replicate their e-commerce success in Asia. https://t.co/1FmxohRRtt via @technology @business
bloomberg.com
ByteDance Ltd., TikTok’s parent company, has been replacing US-hired staff near Seattle with managers connected to China, aiming to replicate its e-commerce success in Asia after sales fell short in...
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How Musk-Trump Feud Erased $180 Billion in Tesla Market Cap in 3 Hours, in One Annotated Chart @markets
https://t.co/MwUPH1Qqir
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Dom Phillips covered illegal mining, deforestation, and human rights issues in the Amazon. At the time Phillips and Pereira were killed, they were interviewing locals and people defending Indigenous territory from illegal fishing for a book Phillips was writing.
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SCOOP: TikTok e-commerce employees in the US (including Bellevue, near Seattle) were told to work from home Wednesday as widespread layoffs are expected. https://t.co/Re4n4VQyTV via @business @technology
bloomberg.com
TikTok told US e-commerce staff to work from home Wednesday while awaiting emails regarding “difficult decisions,” suggesting the social media company is preparing to cut jobs.
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Seattle businesses hope to lure Blue Jays fans for this weekend's series by accepting Canadian dollars at par. That's a 30% discount... but still might not be enough to get them to visit the US. https://t.co/NiIbNkZ6I6 via @business
bloomberg.com
For years, the arrival of the Toronto Blue Jays in Seattle brought a familiar sight: tens of thousands of exuberant Canadians pouring into the city to cheer on their baseball team.
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