— Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. She was most recently vice president of digital design at Nike. A Google alum,… Read More
— Future For Us co-founder and former CEO Sage Ke’alohilani Quiamno is now a diversity, equity and inclusion business partner for Amazon Prime Video and Studios. “I was drawn to… Read More
Washington State University this week launched a new $125 million program to collect and analyze animal viruses with the aim of preventing the next pandemic. The program is funded with… Read More
— Seattle startup Cloudentity appointed CloudCoreo co-founder Jason Needham as its new CEO and a member of the board. Needham was most recently senior director of multi-cloud security at VMware,… Read More
— Education platform DreamBox Learning appointed five new executives: Lakshmi Nidamarthi as chief product officer. Nidamarthi was most recently director of product and technology for Alexa Experiences at Amazon. Ronit… Read More
— Adriane Brown, managing partner at Seattle VC firm Flying Fish, joined the board of global investment firm KKR. This is Brown’s second notable board appointment this year after she… Read More
— Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has been appointed the Edward V. Fritzky endowed chair in leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business for… Read More
— Brad Porter, the longtime Amazon robotics leader, has surfaced as the first chief technology officer of Scale AI, a San Francisco-based company seeking to accelerate the development of artificial… Read More
— Seattle-based Zillow Group announced leadership changes on its marketing team and in its New York office. Matt Daimler is now senior vice president of product. He was most recently… Read More
University of Washington researchers are developing a “flashlight-like” gadget that would use multiple electromagnetic sources, including ultraviolet and infrared light, to destroy viruses and bacteria on surfaces more effectively than… Read More
The University of Washington is suspending in-person classes starting Monday as the Seattle region grapples with an outbreak of COVID-19. It is the first American university to shut down in… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. If you’re looking to be inspired by the tech community, look no further than the finalists… Read More
— Compensation software provider PayScale named Kristin Boraas its new general counsel, responsible for the growth of the Seattle-based startup’s legal department. Boraas spent more than five years in Tableau’s… Read More
— Former Boeing exec Linda Mills is Blue Origin’s first vice president of communications. Mills held the same title at Boeing for two years before departing late last year, one… Read More
We are bombarded by misinformation and downright lies. With just a click, they catch fire and spread through traditional and social media, from false rumors spread by the U.S. president… Read More
Puget Sound — Washington’s inland sea — is a mysterious place. It’s the southern-most fjord in the lower 48 states. It’s fed by rivers that create shallow, mucky tideflats. In… Read More
Yolanda Barton loves Seattle’s music history — the history that starts decades before Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden came screaming onto the scene and Macklemore took fans thrift store shopping.… Read More
— Microsoft hired David Rhew as the chief medical officer and vice president of healthcare for its worldwide commercial business. Rhew was formerly the chief medical officer for Samsung’s enterprise… Read More
Americans were shocked to learn how misinformation was weaponized during the 2016 presidential race and experts believe it was just the beginning. As foreign adversaries become more sophisticated in this… Read More
Wocka wocka wocka wocka. Even if you’re not a kid of the 1970s and ’80s who, like me, erased hours of their youth blasting Atari’s Space Invaders or spinning among… Read More
What if something as simple as a more precise eyedropper could cut the cost of glaucoma medication by more than half? That’s the idea behind the startup Nanodropper, which won… Read More
When Ed Lazowska arrived at the University of Washington four decades ago, there were just 12 computer science faculty members. Meanwhile across Lake Washington, a small startup called Microsoft had… Read More
GeekWire is sad to report that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died from cancer at the age of 65. Instead of the usual show format, we’re going to feature highlights… Read More
Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT continue to pump out more entrepreneurs than any other universities across the U.S. Seattle-based investment database site PitchBook on Friday released its annual report on the… Read More
Why don’t more women code? Stuart Reges believes he has an answer to that difficult question, one that the tech industry has been wrestling with for years. But far from resolving… Read More
A University of Washington lecturer is sparking new debate with an essay claiming that the technology industry is about as close to gender parity as it will ever get because… Read More
There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which will showcase some of the top leaders in cloud computing… Read More
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Technology is a critical part of American history but it typically occupies little more than a marginal note in history textbooks. Margaret O’Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington, says… Read More
Hackers and spies no longer need special surveillance equipment to track your location and movements. Researchers from the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering have… Read More