Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 6, 2022 – GeekWire

Mark Zuckerberg got it wrong. The Meta CEO and Facebook founder admitted this explicitly Wednesday morning, announcing the layoff of 13% of Meta’s workforce, or more than 11,000 people. … Read More

The U.S. housing market continues to show signs of weakening, impacting Seattle real estate tech companies such as Zillow Group and Redfin. … Read More

Seattleites disapprove of approval voting. … Read More

If you’re on the West Coast, watching tonight’s total lunar eclipse will require a willingness to stay awake in the middle of the night — plus a lucky break on the weather. … Read More

The year was 2011, Facebook was serving a mere 600 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was making his pitch to a crowd of prospective hires inside the company’s fledgling office near Pike Place Market — explaining why the social network had chosen Seattle for its first remote engineering hub. … Read More

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the second time in five months. … Read More

The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was launched. … Read More

Redfin will wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and lay off employees for the second time this year as it cuts expenses in response to a slowing housing market. … Read More

The crisis around homelessness in Seattle — and in cities across the country — is nothing short of a source of daily conversation among those experiencing it, witnessing it, or working to combat it. … Read More

DoorDash, the food ordering and delivery company, is expanding its office footprint in Seattle two years after starting an engineering outpost in the city. … Read More