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Startup lesson #2: Don’t ignore the enablers
[Editor's note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on GeekWire, starting yesterday with their thoughts about minimum viable products. In part two, they'll talk about how they determined product features. Part three, set to run Thursday, … Read More...
Remote Medical International lands $8M to offer medical aid worldwide
To help broaden its reach and continue providing medical assistance in hard-to-reach places, Seattle-based Remote Medical International just landed $8 million in fresh funding from Columbia Pacific Management. Founded in 2003, Remote Medical has 100 employees that respond to incidents in remote places for customers mainly involved in industrial, offshore and … Read More...
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Collaborate.org: A global intelligence dashboard that visualizes the world’s data
Dr. Kevin Montgomery was working at NASA when he had his "A-ha" moment. During a trip to Hawaii, he visited a remote valley on the island of Kauai, accessible only by helicopter. As he stood in the wild of that pristine valley, home to a range of exotic species and endangered plants, gazing up at a 1,000 year-old temple, he had a realization: "We don't have the right to … Read More...
Sweet gigs: DoubleDown Interactive, Tableau and Breaking News
Don't let those dark skies fool you, summer's just around the corner and what better way to start yours than with a radical new job? If you're looking, we've got some hot ones for ya. Highlighting local tech jobs, the GeekWire Job Board is the place to check for exciting new careers. Today we're featuring openings from some Seattle companies both big and small: Glu … Read More...
Amazon Web Services expanding in northern Virginia, plans to hire 500
Amazon.com is expanding its footprint in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, with Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announcing today that the company's Amazon Web Services unit plans to open a new office in Herndon, Virginia area. The expansion could add as many as 500 engineering and IT jobs in the area, and it comes about two months after AWS reportedly struck a deal … Read More...
Check out the Apollo F-1 moon rocket engines that Jeff Bezos helped salvage
Back in March, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his Bezos Expeditions team recovered significant pieces of two F-1 rocket engines that were used to launch rockets into space 40 years ago on the landmark Apollo missions, before plunging into the ocean. Bezos' F-1 Recovery Project team brought the parts to Kansas and now, after two months of cleaning and restoring, you … Read More...
LexisNexis closing Bellevue offices, 80 people impacted
LexisNexis is closing its Bellevue operations at the end of this year, a decision that will impact about 80 people. The company's Legal & Professional services business, which employs about 10,000 worldwide, established operations in the Seattle area through its acquisition of online document retrieval startup CourtLink in 2001. The company issued this statement … Read More...
Report: Teens leave Facebook for Twitter, because they want less drama
Facebook is still the social media king, but teens are using Twitter and Instagram at an increasing rate recently because, well, there's just too much drama and gossip on Facebook. That's the latest from a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which found that even though 94 percent of teenage social media users still have Facebook, more and … Read More...
Bruce Montgomery biotech startup Cardeas Pharma raises $34 million
It has been a good week for the Seattle life sciences community. On Monday, Seattle genomics tool maker NanoString Technologies filed for an initial public offering that could raise up to $86 million. Now, comes word that Cardeas Pharma Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company led by Seattle biotech veteran Bruce Montgomery, has raised $34 million in funding. New … Read More...
Microsoft vets raise cash for productivity startup Tipbit, backed by Ignition and Andreessen Horowitz
A startup by the name of Tipbit — backed by Ignition Partners and Andreessen Horowitz —wants to make you more productive. The company is currently accepting folks into a beta program, noting in an email to prospective users that the service is designed to make "everyday business tasks faster and easier." We discovered Tipbit through an SEC filing, which indicated … Read More...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen collaborates with Heart, Joe Walsh and other rock stars on new album
Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, Jimi Hendrix aficionado and avid guitar player, is coming out with a new album in August — and he has some pretty impressive collaborators helping him out. Chrissie Hynde, Joe Walsh, and Anne and Nancy Wilson of Heart are among the big names who perform with Allen and latest his band, "the Underthinkers" on the album, called … Read More...
From shopping advice to walking devices, startups with UW ties show off their successful ideas
The entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University of Washington was on full display Tuesday evening at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering. For the fourth installment of the Seattle Tech Meetup, five local startups with UW ties gave five-minute pitches to a crowd of more than 200 on the UW campus. But perhaps the most powerful … Read More...
Chart: The top 10 biggest private tech buyouts (and where Tumblr ranks)
In the wake of Yahoo's blockbuster $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, Bloomberg News has produced a pretty nifty chart of the top 50 acquisitions of private technology companies. Skype leads the pack, but not Microsoft's $8.5 billion buy in 2011 since at the time the Internet communications giant was owned by publicly-traded eBay. In fact, eBay's $2.5 billion purchase of … Read More...
Amazon to pay royalties for fan fiction in new ‘Kindle Worlds’ program
Ready to write some fan fic? Amazon may have some money for you. The company says it will license rights to popular books, games, movies and other content to let independent authors write their own stories based on those worlds, and receive royalties from sales of their fan fiction through the company's Kindle Store. The unusual initiative, dubbed "Kindle Worlds," … Read More...
SEO guru Vanessa Fox sells search analytics startup Nine by Blue to RKG
Seattle entrepreneur Vanessa Fox has been bootstrapping her search analytics business, Nine by Blue, for the past six years. Today, the former Google employee is cashing out, in part because she's found the right partner in Charlottesville, Virginia-based search marketing firm RKG. "We've built up Blueprint as a robust enterprise-level search analytics platform and … Read More...
Amazon increases its tuition assistance for hourly workers
Amazon.com says it will boost the amount of tuition assistance available to its hourly employees who pursue associate degrees or vocational certificates. The company will now pay up to $3,000 a year (totaling up to $12,000 over four years), which is an increase from $2,000 a year (or up to $8,000 total) when the program began. The company announced the change this … Read More...
Xbox One: How Microsoft is trying to change the game
It was great that Microsoft included several former Xbox bigwigs — Robbie Bach, J Allard, and Ed Fries — in the opening video montage at the Xbox One unveiling today. Seeing them was a reminder of just how much has changed since the game-centric early days of Microsoft's console business. In fact, the Xbox is officially not a video-game console anymore. It's an … Read More...
UW’s Ed Lazowska: ‘Washington is the ass end of the donkey in just about every aspect of education’
The incredible talent that the University of Washington pumps out every year was on display during Tuesday's Seattle Tech Meetup, as five startups with UW ties gave five-minute pitches to the crowd at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering. But unfortunately for the state, the UW is one of the few bright spots amidst an otherwise struggling … Read More...
Xbox One: Watch the new Kinect detect a heart rate from across the room
Microsoft has significantly upgraded the sensing capabilities of the second-generation Kinect sensor that will ship with the newly announced Xbox One game console. One example: The Kinect can detect a user's heart rate optically. See the video above for a demonstration of the capability during a tour of the Microsoft Xbox campus today. The idea is to incorporate this … Read More...
These sensor-infused socks track your steps and ID injury-prone running styles
In the past few years, you've heard of smartphones, smart-watches and most recently, smart-glasses. Now, courtesy of a Redmond-based startup, we have yet another ordinary product attached to your body that's becoming more intelligent: smart socks. Meet Heapsylon, a company founded two years ago by three Microsofties that is developing what is essentially a pedometer … Read More...
Startup lesson #1: Reid Hoffman is wrong
[Editor's note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on GeekWire, starting today with their thoughts about minimum viable products. In part two, they'll talk about how they determined product features. Part three, set to run Thursday, will … Read More...
Photos: Check out Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s V-2 rocket arriving at Paine Field
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's latest extravagance — a German-built World War II-era V2 rocket — has arrived at his Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett. The rocket, one of only 16 remaining in the world, stands 46-feet tall (just shy of the museum's 50-foot high ceiling). The V-2 arrived in three primary sections on Monday, and has now been … Read More...
NFL commish says new multi-year partnership with Microsoft will ‘change the game of football’
The nation's most popular sport is about to get real geeky thanks in large part to technology from Microsoft. During today's big Xbox One launch in Redmond, Microsoft announced a new multi-year partnership with the NFL that will, according to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, "change the game of football." NFL.com is reporting that the deal is for five years and … Read More...
Official word: Xbox One requires Internet connection, but not ‘always on’
Remember all that controversy over the reports of a required "always on" Internet connection in the new Xbox? First, reports surfaced that Microsoft would require a persistent Internet connection, then the word was that it wouldn't. Here's the official word from a newly published FAQ from Microsoft. Does Xbox One require an “always on” Internet connection? A: … Read More...
Startup Spotlight: Stride taps user feedback to build a CRM product with ‘love’
It took just 24 hours for the self-described "startup junkies" at Stride to get their new customer relationship management service off the ground. But they didn't stop there, and now just over a year after its formal launch, the team is still iterating and developing. The Stride app — created by Andrew Dumont, Nathan Carnes, Adrian Pike and Amiel Martin —has attracted … Read More...
Xbox One: Here is the official video from Microsoft
Microsoft unveiled the new "Xbox One" console in Redmond today, with highlights including souped-up hardware, live TV integration, Skype functionality, an upgraded (and bundled) Kinect sensor, a "snap view" for multitasking, and an operating system that bridges the worlds of Xbox and Windows. The company also announced partnerships with the NFL and EA Sports, and showed … Read More...
Reactions mixed as group of 14 Xbox fans watch console launch at Microsoft Store
It certainly wasn't as exciting nor populated as the Surface tablet debut or the Halo 4 launch party, but a group of 14 Xbox aficionados still managed to gather at the Microsoft Store in Seattle's University Village to watch the Xbox One launch streamed over Xbox Live. Everyone stayed to watch the hour-long presentation and as Microsoft announced several of the more … Read More...
Sorry, but Xbox 360 games won’t play on Xbox One
Microsoft executives are on stage right now here in Redmond giving the rundown on the major technological changes in the new Xbox One console, unveiled by the company today. In fact, the changes are big enough that Xbox One won't be backward compatible with Xbox 360 games, company executives are acknowledging to reporters. That means that Xbox 360 game discs won't be … Read More...
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