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Articles from 2017

Calendar Picks: Prep for Social Venture Partners’ Fast Pitch program; get your (board) game on; and more

Seattle has a reputation for innovation in tech and science, but it also has a reputation for another kind of… Read More

Seattle Mariners GM, LA Dodgers CFO to speak at GeekWire Sports Tech Summit

You can’t talk sports tech without at least a little bit of sabermetrics. That’s one topic Seattle Mariners General Manager Jerry… Read More

Techstars grad Innervate raises more cash for platform that helps developers reach gamers

Innervate, a Seattle startup offering a suite of tools to help gaming companies market their products, has raised an undisclosed… Read More

Watch out Convoy: Here comes Uber Freight

It’s always a daunting proposition when a multi-billion dollar juggernaut enters your startup turf. That happened this week for Seattle-based… Read More

Science, spinoffs and french fries: Q&A with Adriane Brown, Intellectual Ventures president and incoming Pacific Science Center board chair

Adriane Brown is president and chief operating officer of Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based intellectual property and tech company best known for… Read More

Building home to Facebook’s Frank Gehry-designed Seattle office sells for $286M

Dexter Station, a 10-story building in Seattle’s South Lake Union that is home to Facebook’s new Frank Gehry-designed office, just… Read More

Alexa at the ballpark: Testing Amazon Echo inside a Seattle Mariners suite at Safeco Field

Amazon’s voice technology has made its way into Major League Baseball. Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners became the first… Read More

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Apollo moon rocket engines finally fill a place of honor at Museum of Flight

Almost 50 years after they were fired up, rocket engines that sent NASA’s Apollo crews on the first leg of their… Read More

Marc Benioff Salesforce

Salesforce impresses investors with strong Q1, raises full-year revenue guidance

Salesforce enjoyed a nice first quarter of 2017, beating analyst expectations for both revenue and profit while raising guidance for… Read More

Continuation of a ‘beautiful friendship’: Canadian PM Trudeau meets with Washington Gov. Inslee in Seattle

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in town for the annual Microsoft CEO Summit this week, and he had some… Read More

Amazon

Amazon No. 2 on LinkedIn’s Top Companies list — see where else ‘the world wants to work now’

The biggest names in tech are also the best places to work according to LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2017 list, which… Read More

How Sir Richard Branson is encouraging healthy habits with Virgin Sport’s new ‘fitness festivals’

Sir Richard Branson understands the value of sport and fitness. After all, when he’s home at Necker Island, the billionaire entrepreneur… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy

How Amazon Web Services uses machine learning to make capacity planning decisions

Machine-learning research isn’t something that Amazon Web Services does just for its cloud customers; it has developed machine-learning driven models… Read More

Trump’s FCC poised to roll back Obama-era net neutrality regulations

Today the Federal Communications Commission begins the process of rolling back net neutrality rules that were implemented in 2015, under… Read More

Napster parent Rhapsody cuts jobs, CEO departs amid debt challenges and strategic review

Rhapsody, the Seattle-based company that operates the Napster subscription music service, is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, part of an… Read More

T-Mobile wanted Huawei to pay $500M in ‘Tappy’ robot technology theft case, it got $4.8M

A federal jury awarded T-Mobile $4.8 million in a long-running legal dispute with Chinese telecom giant Huawei over a smartphone testing robot,… Read More

Steve Singh

Newly-named Docker CEO Steve Singh added to GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit lineup

The inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — our first-ever technical conference — continues to gain momentum. And today we’re excited… Read More

Seattle skyline

Ever-changing Seattle mourns the loss of another touchstone in Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell

Waking up to the news of a death is never easy. But it’s especially hard when that death ripples through… Read More

Dreamliner dining table

Video: Want to fly like a CEO? Rent Deer Jet’s 787 Dreamliner for $70,000 an hour

Now anybody can fly like a VIP: All you have to do to take Deer Jet’s super-elegant 787 Dreamliner for… Read More

Forget the Q-tips: This startup’s headphones clean out your ears in just 35 seconds

Earwax build-up is a nasty fact of life for many people, some of whom go to great lengths to clean… Read More

European regulators hit Facebook with $122M fine for ‘misleading information’ in WhatsApp buy

European regulators levied a fine against Facebook of $110 million euros — or $122 million U.S. — for providing “misleading… Read More

Julie Speidel sculpture

Is tech squeezing out Seattle artists? Not this sculptor, whose work fits into new urban landscape

There’s plenty of talk about what Seattle’s seemingly all-enveloping technology industry is doing to affordability, diversity and the culture of… Read More

Microsoft Cloud to set up shop in Africa with two new data centers coming in 2018

Microsoft plans to open two new data centers in South Africa next year to provide its cloud services to the… Read More

Rocket Lab electron

Spaceflight buys Rocket Lab Electron launch for a small satellite sampler

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s struck a deal to buy the full capacity of a single Electron rocket launch from L.A.-based Rocket… Read More

Jury sides with T-Mobile in federal lawsuit over theft of ‘Tappy’ robot technology by Huawei

This story has been updated to include reaction from Huawei. A federal jury sided with T-Mobile in a long-running dispute… Read More

UW names Rob Adams to replace Connie Bourassa-Shaw as head of Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

Rob Adams, a Seattle angel investor, startup mentor, and the former acquisitions manager for Cisco, will replace Connie Bourassa-Shaw as… Read More

New app from MedBridge aims to help patients keep on top of rehabilitation therapy

For most people, treatment for a health problem doesn’t end when they leave the hospital — in fact, sticking to the in-home… Read More

Trudeau and Microsoft

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau rocks Microsoft CEO Summit: Why snooping on VIPs is getting harder

So far, this year’s Microsoft CEO Summit has been all about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s talk today, but there’s… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Zipwhip seeks Operations Engineer to grow network infrastructure for text messaging platform

There’s virtually no limit to the way we communicate these days: Skype, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter — the list goes… Read More

Seattle nonprofit to battle cancer in Africa with help from biotech industry

As progress is being made against deadly infectious diseases in Africa and other parts of the developed world, a new… Read More

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