Hanging up on Skype; Google's future in Seattle; Inside Microsoft's quest for a quantum leap
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
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Summary
This week on the Geekwire Podcast: Google prepares to say goodbye to Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, we get ready to say farewell to Skype; and we take a quantum leap with one of Microsoft's top technical leaders in the field: Chetan Nayak, technical fellow and corporate vice of quantum hardware for the company.
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With GeekWire's Taylor Soper and Todd Bishop; Audio editing by Curt Milton
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| 0:00.0 | This Geekwire podcast is brought to you by BECU. |
| 0:04.2 | Stay tuned to the break as Brian Westbrook interviews BECU's Stacey Black about minimizing the impact of uncertain times on your financial health. |
| 0:13.4 | For more money hacks, check out geekwire.com slash BECU. |
| 0:20.1 | Coming up this week on the Geekwire podcast, Google prepares to say goodbye to Seattle's |
| 0:25.9 | Fremont neighborhood. |
| 0:27.3 | We get ready to say farewell to Skype, and we take a quantum leap with one of Microsoft's |
| 0:33.5 | top technical leaders in the field. |
| 0:41.3 | Thank you. top technical leaders in the field. Welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm Geekwire |
| 0:45.1 | editor Taylor Sober. We are coming to you from Seattle and specifically from Fremont, Seattle's |
| 0:50.4 | Fremont neighborhood, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:56.0 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. |
| 0:59.0 | We talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. |
| 1:03.0 | Taylor, it was a busy news week right at the end of the week. |
| 1:06.0 | And in fact, later on, I've got an interview that I recorded with the head of Microsoft's |
| 1:11.3 | Quantum Hardware Division. |
| 1:13.0 | We're going to have that later on in the show. |
| 1:15.1 | But so much happened here right at the end of the week that I wanted to have you jump on |
| 1:20.0 | and talk about it. |
| 1:21.1 | How's your week going? |
| 1:22.6 | It's been great. |
| 1:23.6 | You're busy? |
| 1:24.8 | I moderated a panel with some Seattle area investors. The event was hosted by Thai Seattle. |
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