Kids love robots. And now a new San Francisco area company, backed with $1 million from the likes of Google Ventures and Madrona Venture Group, is looking to develop a new class of low-cost robots designed to help five to eight-year-olds learn the basics of programming. All Things D has details on Play-i, which is… Read More…
It was a major coup last summer when The University of Washington hooked computer science professor Carlos Guestrin, a leading data scientist and expert in machine learning. What wasn’t widely known at the time was that the Guestrin-led open source project, an ambitious undertaking known as GraphLab.org, would soon sprout into its very own startup. But that’s… Read More…
Portland startup Lucky Sort has been acquired by Twitter and will be shutting down its service in the coming months as company employees move to Twitter’s revenue engineering department. Lucky Sort, founded in 2011, crunches trends and patterns in live text-based data streams to help users better predict market movements. The startup packaged that information… Read More…
Seattle startup Glympse has made its mark with time-based location sharing technology, letting people share their spot on the map with others in real time, for a limited period of time. Increasingly the company has also been working with partners — including BMW, Ford and many others — to incorporate the technology into their own… Read More…
For a long time I’ve felt like I must be either the first or last entrepreneur to discover the ABC series Shark Tank. For the uninitiated, it’s pure startup voyeurism: a company stands in front of a panel of five plutocrats, pitches, and either gets an investment or gets laughed off the stage. It wasn’t until… Read More…
What does it take to attract and retain a high-quality workforce in the competitive tech industry? More than free beer and candy. That’s one of the takeaways from this piece by KING 5, based on the “Perk of the Year” category in last week’s GeekWire Awards. Check out the story by KING 5′s Mitch Pittman… Read More…
(Editor’s note: Chris DeVore gave the keynote speech at Thursday night’s GeekWire Awards. These are his prepared remarks, with full video of the talk above). I want to talk to you tonight about two things: Turtles And flywheels Some of you may have heard the story about the Hindu wise man who explained to a… Read More…
Editor’s note: Nike Accelerator Spotlight takes a look at the ten startups participating in the Nike+ Accelerator, a three-month startup program based in Portland, Ore. and put on by Nike and TechStars. GeekWire is featuring each company leading up to the June 10 demo day. There are lots of benefits to exercise. It can help you shed… Read More…
Phew. Now that was fun. We just got off the stage at the 2013 GeekWire Awards at the EMP in Seattle, naming winners in 14 geeky categories representing the pillars of the region’s startup community. Winners walked away with custom-made joystick trophies to show off on their mantles, recognizing their climb up the startup charts. Check out… Read More…
Here’s some advice to keep the Seattle startup ecosystem strong: Don’t do what Detroit did. At Zillow’s downtown headquarters today, Mayor Mike McGinn and several members of the tech community gathered to officially launch the Startup Seattle initiative, which is designed to support the growth of the Seattle tech startup community and make the city… Read More…
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