The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is giving an additional $1.4 million in relief funds to aid underserved populations across Washington state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The foundation, originally founded… Read More
Steve Hall thinks Paul Allen would have gotten a kick out of his viral music sensation. Hall, a longtime venture capitalist who has worked at the late Microsoft co-founder’s Vulcan… Read More
During his lifetime, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s wide-ranging philanthropic initiatives included several programs to alleviate the homelessness crisis in his hometown. Today, a year-and-a-half after his passing, the unique housing… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Amazon and critics wage a PR war in the company’s first virtual annual meeting. One employee said working at… Read More
Seattleites love coming in out of the rain for a movie. Especially if there is chocolate popcorn. So when news hit Wednesday that Seattle’s beloved Cinerama — owned by the… Read More
Seattle-area cultural institutions founded by the late Paul Allen, including the Cinerama movie theater and Living Computers Museum + Labs, face the possibility of permanent closure after Vulcan Inc. announced Wednesday that… Read More
Update, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect news about employee layoffs. Seattle’s Cinerama, the high-tech movie theater owned and operated by the late Paul… Read More
The scene of the worst peacetime maritime disaster in history — known as “Asia’s Titanic” — has been surveyed by the Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, the exploration ship owned and… Read More
The new owner of Stratolaunch, the space venture started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is Steve Feinberg, a secretive billionaire with close ties to President Donald Trump. In October,… Read More
Facebook’s newest office complex in Seattle’s bustling South Lake Union neighborhood sold for a whopping $415 million last week. Ponte Gadea, Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega’s real estate investment business bought… Read More
The late Paul Allen’s ship-hunting team aboard the Research Vessel Petrel has reached record new depths with its latest discovery. Vulcan Inc. released footage Wednesday of the deepest shipwreck ever… Read More
For the third year in a row, the University of Washington has won the title of the world’s most innovative public university, according to an annual ranking by Reuters and… Read More
The Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, owned and operated by the late Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., continues to locate historic shipwrecks on the ocean floor, this time discovering for the first… Read More
Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen in 2011 to build a flying launch pad for rockets, says it’s under new ownership. The transition… Read More
Vulcan Inc., the holding company created by the late Seattle billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is in the midst of a round of job reductions, sources have told… Read More
Patti Hammond — better known around these parts as “Mama Blue” — knows how much Paul Allen meant to the Seattle Seahawks. A diehard fan since the team entered the… Read More
Paul Allen has been credited with keeping the Seattle Seahawks from leaving the city, and now the late owner and Microsoft co-founder will be honored with a place in the… Read More
Stratolaunch is hiring — nearly a year after the death of its billionaire backer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and five months after the company’s monster plane took its first and… Read More
Are these the building blocks for museum exhibition success? The Museum of Pop Culture announced Thursday that “Minecraft: The Exhibition” is coming to the Paul Allen-founded institution next month as… Read More
“They’re too big, and there are too many of them,” the late Paul Allen once said about his fleet of yachts. Now, the biggest is for sale — with a… Read More
Vulcan Capital, the invest arm of the late Paul Allen, opened its first international office in Singapore to invest in startups in Southeast Asia. Bloomberg reported that Vulcan plans an… Read More
The voyages of the R/V Petrel, funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, are the focus of a National Geographic documentary premiering on Monday – and as a prelude… Read More
So this is what it would look like if you crammed Shark Week into one extended YouTube video. If swimming with the sharks sounds a little too scary for you,… Read More
The public will get a chance to view some of the significant pieces in the private art collection of Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, as part of… Read More
Much has been said and written about the partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that gave rise to Microsoft and personal computing. This week, Gates added a personal stamp… Read More
Sources say Vulcan Inc. is looking to sell Stratolaunch, the space venture founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, and one report says the asking price could be as… Read More
Holodome has left the building. Paul Allen’s vision for shared immersive, 360-degree reality without the use of a VR headset has ended its run at the Museum of Pop Culture… Read More
When you think of the crown jewels of the coral reefs, it’s hard not to think of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — and now those jewels are on full display… Read More
Russell Wilson took time away from counting his newfound riches on Wednesday to thank the Seattle Seahawks for making him the highest paid player in the NFL and to reiterate… Read More
Holodome, the immersive virtual reality experience from the late Paul Allen, is all about transporting visitors to other worlds. And now the high-tech concept has traveled from Seattle to Vancouver,… Read More