Highlights from today’s top stories. Subscribe here to receive this rundown daily. Satya Nadella owns a soccer team. At least, he owns a piece of one. An all-star roster of Seattle tech… Read More
Amazon, Uber, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other big companies have something in common. They’re all platforms, providing underlying technologies that others use to build or facilitate their own businesses.… Read More
Google’s appetite for office space across the Seattle region has intensified in recent years, and it is on the verge of a major milestone. The search giant is approaching a… Read More
Amazon became the latest tech giant to let users of its voice assistant opt out of human review of their voice recordings, after similar announcements from Apple and Google. The… Read More
Google is planting its flag in Amazon territory. Google signage has been installed across the multiple buildings going up in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood and at the street level,… Read More
Google and Amazon followed through on their peace pact this morning. The official YouTube app is coming back to Amazon’s Fire TV devices as part of an agreement that also… Read More
Google will stop producing its own tablets, according to a report from Computerworld, pulling back from a competitive and stagnant market that includes more prominent players like Apple and Microsoft.… Read More
Google is getting deeper into enterprise software with the $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker, which makes business-intelligence software for data analysis, the company announced Thursday. The all-cash deal will blend… Read More
Shares in Amazon and Google are diving Monday morning on reports that U.S. regulators are gearing up to take a hard look at the tech giants. The Washington Post reported… Read More
Update 6:13pm PT: Google sounded the all-clear at 5:09 pm PT, saying that all service had been restored. Our original story follows below. Six weeks after Google dubiously claimed it… Read More
Google is challenging Microsoft’s HoloLens with a new version of its Glass augmented reality eyewear targeted at businesses, continuing a transition started two years ago for the device. Google today… Read More
There’s a common theme running through the spring season of developer conferences and tech events: trust and privacy. With the tech industry facing a backlash from consumers and regulators, tech… Read More
The Google I/O 2019 keynote took place this week, and I bring you a recap of the news, including my thoughts on the newly announced Google Pixel 3a and Pixel… Read More
What if deep learning models could detect early-stage cancer more accurately than a veteran radiologist? Google is showing that day might be close, based on the results of a study… Read More
Google showed a new device called Nest Hub Max, with a 10-inch display and a built-in camera, stepping up its efforts to give Google Assistant and other services a place… Read More
The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too quickly for the more than 30,000 in attendance to process… Read More
Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to leave its board in June, Alphabet announced Tuesday. The board… Read More
The centerpiece of Google’s Seattle expansion is in flux after a construction crane for the tech giant’s new campus in Amazon’s backyard toppled over the weekend, killing four people and… Read More
As it scaled its way to unicorn status and beyond over the last few years, Pinterest was more focused on adding features to its image-sharing social media site and ensuring… Read More
The Seattle Fire Department responded to reports of a possible explosion and smoke at Google’s offices in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Thursday morning. Firefighters arrived to find a power outage and… Read More
Amazon and Google have resolved a long-running feud that kept YouTube off Fire TV devices for more than a year. The two companies said “in the coming months,” they will… Read More
It might be spring break in Seattle, but plans for the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, presented by F5, are in full swing. We are excited to announce four new speakers… Read More
Kubernetes is as much of a north star as anything for Google’s cloud computing efforts, and it thinks software developers need more help getting their applications deployed on the popular… Read More
Google plans to launch one of its first vertical-market cloud services packages introduced under new CEO Thomas Kurian Wednesday at Google Cloud Next 2019 with its top cloud rival squarely… Read More
Voice assistants are moving into the office, prompting Google to integrate its Google Assistant technology with G Suite customer calendars. That’s just one of several updates to G Suite, Google’s… Read More
As one of the most prominent tech companies of the last 25 years — and the victim of a sophisticated 2010 hack that made it re-evaluate its entire security protocol… Read More
Google is expanding the quiet relationship it has with Microsoft’s commercial software division, with plans to offer a managed version of the venerable SQL Server relational database on its public… Read More
New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. The company that basically invented the concept of hyperscale distributed computing has notably failed to capitalize on… Read More
Invoking the mythical tech promise of “write once, run anywhere,” Google Cloud announced a new product Tuesday that customers running its managed container services can use to manage multiple cloud… Read More
Dropbox’s decision to partner with Microsoft five years ago has paid off handsomely for the company. Tuesday it plans to unveil an important step in its evolving partnership with Google,… Read More