Welcome to Seattle, Facebook

Hot on the heels of Michael Arrington's announcement that he will be moving his primary place of residence to Seattle, Facebook has announced that they will be opening an office here, as well. Ari Steinberg is leading the expansion, which will be primarily an engineering office. Along with their offices in Tokyo and Austin, this will be only the third Facebook office outside of their headquarters in Palo Alto.

Facebook joins a large number of prominent technology companies in the Seattle area, including Microsoft (with their headquarters) and Google (with a local office).

Welcome to Seattle, Facebook!

Hi, Michael

Well, if you haven't checked out TechCrunch today, we just got some big news for the Seattle tech startup community. Michael Arrington, the founder of the leading technology blog TechCrunch, just announced that he will be moving his primary residence up here to Seattle from Silicon Valley.

Though he admits that his frequent travels mean that his primary place of residence doesn't matter nearly as much anymore, the fact that he chose Seattle does say quite a bit about the vibrant community we have here surrounding technology and startups.

So Hi, Michael, and welcome to Seattle, from all of us here at Sound Startups.