PITTSBURGH — When we last visited Amazon’s engineering center in this city, back in 2018, the company had just announced plans to expand its footprint and add about 125 jobs… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In his 22 years at Amazon, including his role as the first CEO of the company’s Worldwide Consumer business, Jeff Wilke always kept the place he was raised,… Read More
PITTSBURGH — It would have been fun for me if Amazon’s HQ2 had ended up here, not only for the intriguing storylines but for the excuse to visit more often.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Looking out the window of the Boeing 737 this week after landing at Pittsburgh International Airport, gateway to one of the world’s top robotics hubs, it was hard… Read More
Pittsburgh’s tech scene is getting some more love from Seattle. Cascadia Capital, a Seattle-based investment banking firm founded more than two decades ago, is eyeing Pittsburgh for its new special… Read More
2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing of Seattle tech pioneer PGA: Paul G. Allen. It was… Read More
Drone deliveries are coming. While some autonomous transportation technologies like self-driving cars are still years or even decades away from entering our everyday lives, you can expect to receive packages… Read More
PITTSBURGH — What an incredible experience. A rotating cast of GeekWire reporters and editors spent the month of February 2018 covering the technology community in Pittsburgh, reporting on this city’s… Read More
Cities with booming tech economies around the country face an existential crisis. How can they maintain their cultural identity and diversity amid job growth that contributes to wealth inequality and… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Marya Sea Kaminski loved her first date with Pittsburgh. The associate artistic director at Seattle Repertory Theater had never been to the Steel City, but she visited last… Read More
PITTSBURGH — It’s Sunday morning and the Strip District sizzles with tourists hitting up President Obama’s favorite breakfast spot. Others duck into one of the many immigrant-owned markets along Penn… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Janera Solomon was raised in Pittsburgh from the age of 10, and left after college to pursue a career in arts management before returning home in 2007. For… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At 5:24 p.m. on the first Friday of Lent, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church runs out of fish. A disappointed line of Catholics and non-Catholics alike fills… Read More
Pittsburgh officials are pushing back on a ruling demanding the city release its proposal for Amazon’s second headquarters. Late Friday afternoon, the city and Allegheny County appealed a decision by… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Karla Boos describes herself as a high-level, outside-the-box wizard. For the past 27 years, as the founder and artistic director of the Quantum Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, Boos… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At times, it’s hard to keep up with Luis von Ahn. The Duolingo CEO and co-founder speaks quickly, ideas flowing out of a mind that helped the Guatemalan… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Andy Warhol made his mark as a pop artist throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, but his pioneering spirit and appreciation for inclusiveness would be right at home in… Read More
PITTSBURGH — I’m sitting on the floor of a small office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood surrounded by machines that would fit right in with a movie about the robot uprising.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Rosemary Mendel’s job is getting kids excited about robotics, a technology at the heart of her city’s innovation economy. Mendel grew up in New Castle, Pa. and attended… Read More
I bought my house in Seattle way back when people who didn’t build software for a living were still able to afford houses. Now, as someone who is old enough… Read More
In this period of political, economic, and technological upheaval, Bruce Katz believes we should look to cities to solve societal challenges. Katz is The Brookings Institution’s first Centennial Scholar and author… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Longtime residents of this city like the idea of Amazon HQ2 in their city, have strong impressions of Seattle, and have a clear preference between Bill Gates and… Read More
Looking for a literary tie between Seattle and Pittsburgh? It may seem as hard to find as a unicorn. But it actually involves a unicorn. When the Science Fiction and… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In a room full of people at Concept Art Gallery in this city’s Regent Square neighborhood, Vanessa German was far from silent. The celebrated artist used her powerful… Read More
PITTSBURGH — My favorite thing to do when I get to any new city is to wake up relatively early and take a walk. As a photographer, I appreciate that… Read More
A year and a half ago, Katrina Flora returned to Pittsburgh after a decade away from her hometown. She first left to attend the University of Washington in Seattle, pursuing… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In preparing for this story, I was all set to describe in detail how I had been soundly defeated by Baby Tartanian8, a poker bot built by some… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Sonja Finn doesn’t think we should be fighting over one slice of the pie. That maxim dictates just about everything Finn does. It’s why tipping is verboten at… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Deep within Amazon’s request for proposals for its second North American headquarters, in a section about logistics, is this sentence: “Travel time to an international airport with daily… Read More
More than 125,000 people receive an organ transplant every year. The procedure could replace a failing heart, lungs or kidneys, or even help recipients see for the first time in their… Read More