The City of Seattle today named Michael Mattmiller its new Chief Technology Officer, bringing on a former developer to help head up the city’s Department of Information and Technology. Mattmiller replaces interim CTO… Read More
Medical records. Social Security Numbers. Employee performance evaluations. Those were just some of the confidential records found on old computers that several agencies in Washington state were sending to surplus,… Read More
Well, it’s not quite the “Rumble in the Jungle.” But Founder’s Co-op general partner Chris DeVore and Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata recently were brought together by the online news… Read More
Editor’s Note: Nick Licata is a Seattle City Councilmember. Recently, a Seattle Times editorial lauded the Seattle City Council for requiring clear goals, measurable outcomes, effectiveness and accountability standards for funding… Read More
From the time outgoing Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn took office in 2010 until today, Seattle’s startup scene has continued to grow. In those four years, McGinn has tried to figure… Read More
Government officials often hold public meetings as a way to hear from citizens and find out what’s going on in the community. But with work, family, friends and other important… Read More
Seattle angel investor Dan Rosen has worked hard in recent months to shed light on the potentially damaging effects that proposed regulations in the JOBS Act could have on startups, pointing… Read More
The government may be shut down. But you can’t extinguish the entrepreneurial fire that easy. In video remarks at the 4th Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today, President… Read More
Google wants to help the countries of the world write their next constitution. With a new project called Constitute, the search giant aims to make it easier to understand the… Read More
You know your startup is doing something right when the CIA’s investment arm decides to invest some money into the business. That’s exactly what has happened to Portland-based AppThwack, a… Read More
If Seattle is the Puget Sound region’s 900-pound gorilla, the city’s mayor is its handler. This past week, eight of the current candidates for that office trooped out to Redmond… Read More
Amazon.com has filed a federal complaint over a $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency, a contract that competing bidder IBM disputes. A spokeswoman for… Read More
The City of San Jose announced a partnership with Microsoft today to bring its more than 5,000 employees onto the company’s cloud platforms, a big win for the software giant… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur Kevin Merritt wants to help lead a transformation in government. Not by running for office, but through unleashing the mountains of data that government transportation departments, health departments… Read More
As I try to sort out how I feel about the secret programs that have allowed the National Security Agency to collect phone call data and online communication for years,… Read More
Back in March, it appeared Amazon had hit a home run with a $600 million cloud computing deal with the CIA. Now, though, the Seattle online giant could be left… Read More
Microsoft is now joining fellow tech giants Google and Facebook in asking the U.S. government for more transparency in regard to government requests for national security information. Microsoft issued this statement… Read More
It’s been a huge week for patents — starting with This American Life’s follow-up on Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures and followed on Tuesday with President Barack Obama announcing plans to… Read More
Now, this could get rather interesting. President Barack Obama is expected to announce measures on Tuesday that could curb the practices of patent holding firms, reports The Wall Street Journal.… Read More
Crosscut is continuing their wonderful series by asking leaders in the Seattle community what they’d do if they were mayor. Today’s edition features a former political insider: Bill Schrier. Schrier, the… Read More
Tesla isn’t going to let a little legislation slow it down. The electric car maker, whose stock has soared 145 percent so far this year and now boasts a market… Read More
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn appeared on KUOW 94.9 FM this morning, discussing a wide range of issues related to the city’s police department, transportation initiatives, guns and, of course, the… Read More
The City of Seattle has a plethora of open data available and now they want your help in utilizing the information for apps and visualizations that help solve government-related challenges. As… Read More
Former president Bill Clinton has joined Twitter — and this time the ex-commander-in-chief is doing so without the help of comedian Stephen Colbert. You may recall that Colbert helped Clinton… Read More
Cities throughout the world are trying to capture more tech talent, and our neighbors to the north are no different. Vancouver B.C. is planning a big push to bolster online… Read More
Big data requires big thinkers. And some of Seattle’s top minds — from University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni to Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura to Amazon.com’s Charlie Bell… Read More
Rapid advances in technology are making all kinds of high-tech snooping easier and cheaper. As a result, the Seattle Police department and other local law enforcement agencies will soon be… Read More
Sick and tired of being stuck in nasty Seattle traffic gridlock? Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn feels your pain, and today he announced that the city’s transportation department has inked a deal… Read More
The Seattle Police Department is hoping to keep the city safe by using data that better predicts where crime may happen. Mayor Mike McGinn announced today that on Sunday the… Read More
University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska is known for his strong opinions. And he got to share some of those Thursday, testifying before the House Science, Space and… Read More