The $7.4-billion tourism industry was caught off guard by a King County Council proposal that reduces money for tourism marketing by 93 percent.

Startups continue to raise big venture funding rounds, with at least five Bay Area companies disclosing $20 million-plus deals so far this week. Here’s a closer look. Sysdig, San Francisco, $68.5 million: Insight Venture Partners led the Series D funding for this company, which says its technology helps enterprises operate reliable and secure containerized infrastructure and cloud-native applications. Previous investors Bain Capital Ventures and Accel joined this latest round, which brings Sysdig’s…

The hotel, funded in part by the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, is planned for a parcel at Northwest 12th and Irving.

Toronto suggested CIBC Square for Amazon’s second headquarters. Now, Microsoft is opening its Canadian headquarters in the building.

Wilke runs some of Amazon’s biggest businesses, generating 90 percent of the company’s $177 billion in revenue in 2017.

Swedish CEO Guy Hudson said the layoffs total about four percent of the overall workforce.