Alibaba is reportedly slowing down its U.S. cloud expansion because of hiring issues in Silicon Valley, but it’s still growing near Microsoft and Amazon.

While Il Corvo is dedicated to lunch service in Pioneer Square, sister restaurant Il Nido in the former Alki Homestead space will cater to the dinner crowd.

Hey Siri, where are you from? If one of the co-founders of the iPhone personal assistant had it his way, the answer would have been Denver. Dag Kittlaus, the co-founder of Siri, now Apple’s personal assistant, and San Jose-based Viv Labs, which was acquired by Samsung for $215 million in 2016, told the Denver business community on Tuesday he wanted to start the company in the Mile High City, pointing to it as a “hot area” for tech companies. “But a couple of my co-founders wouldn’t move…

Home owners in minority neighborhoods gained the most equity by percentage, but still came out behind in terms of total dollars gained, according to Redfin.

After its breakthrough 2017, Ecliptic Brewing is ready to defend its Oregon Beer Showdown title in a big way. Or, perhaps, in a smaller way. The North Portland brewer, which won the 2017 Beer Showdown, is shifting its single-bottle production from 22-ounces to 500 milliliters, or a half-liter. As New School Beer writes, the strategy will also lower the price point on noted brewer John Harris’s much-coveted concoctions. Whether the strategy will help Ecliptic defend its title remains to be seen.…

Bulletproof glass, blast-resistant doors and panic buttons are among the features that make “Project Flannel” much more expensive than the average office renovation.