Articles from 2017 – Page 112 of 175

How Microsoft is helping top Spanish soccer league LaLiga track fan behavior and expand globally

LaLiga wants to learn more about its fans and expand its footprint around the globe — and it’s getting help… Read More

Juno Therapeutics’ revenue surges on Celgene partnership, loss increases on R&D spending

Seattle-based biotech juggernaut Juno Therapeutics delivered mixed results in its 2017 quarter one earnings report Thursday — the first financial report… Read More

UW CoMotion spinout OneRadio takes the wraps off its wideband radio receiver

OneRadio Corp. has been working on its dragnet for radio transmissions for two years in stealth mode, but the spinout… Read More

Zillow Group posts record $245.8M in revenue, up 32%, says it’s on track for first $1B year

Zillow Group, the Seattle-based real media company, posted a 32 percent increase in first-quarter revenue, to $245.8 million, and beat Wall… Read More

Enterprise tech company Apptio beats expectations, cuts losses in quest for profitability

Make it three-for-three for Apptio, as it has beaten Wall Street expectations for the third quarter in a row after… Read More

Watch: The first plant goes in the ground at Amazon’s Spheres in downtown Seattle

On a beautiful, sunny day in Seattle, there’s no better time to be out working in the garden. It’s a… Read More

Black Dot business incubator moves into bigger space with more opportunities

Black Dot, a business incubator for black-owned enterprises, is celebrating its new, bigger home in Seattle’s Central District. The expanded space… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Adaptiva seeks software engineer to craft cutting-edge enterprise systems

Adaptiva is a classic Pacific Northwest tech company: Self-started, not too flashy, and elbow-deep in the complex technology that keeps… Read More

Geekwire Calendar Picks: Tunes and tech at the Upstream Music Festival; meet an astronaut at the movies; and more

Long before the Pacific Northwest became a tech hub, it was put on the map by its musical talent. Jimi… Read More

The Nature Conservancy and Microsoft bring tech innovations to environmental efforts

The Nature Conservancy is teaming up with Microsoft to bring machine learning and other tech innovations to the environmental group’s… Read More

SpaceX to launch first homegrown satellite this year, plans broadband network in 2019

SpaceX has laid out its latest schedule for the satellite broadband service it’s developing in the Seattle area, starting with… Read More

How Amazon, Paul Allen and a multi-generational property owner changed Seattle forever

Amazon often gets credit — or in some cases ire — for transforming large swaths of downtown Seattle into a… Read More

Seattle mayor issues new data privacy rules to prevent providers from selling customer information without permission

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Wednesday announced new rules requiring internet service providers that operate in the city to notify… Read More

Dell EMC furthers bet on hybrid cloud with support for Azure Stack

Businesses that still want to roll their own infrastructure in the age of the cloud have a new option from… Read More

BMW ReachNow car-sharing service launches Amazon Alexa skill

ReachNow users who own an Alexa-enabled device can now find out information about nearby vehicles using just their voice. BMW’s… Read More

Bezos and Musk, underachievers? New space race includes a little trash talking

NEW ORLEANS – The evolution of the space race became very clear this week at the Collision media and technology… Read More

Four new Video Game Hall of Fame inductees shaped the gaming industry and pop culture

The World Video Game Hall of Fame announced a new class of inductees on Thursday, and the titles are sure to… Read More

‘Alexa, get that lampshade off your head’: $200 Alexa-powered GE table lamp coming this fall

Among Alexa’s more than 12,000 abilities are a cavalcade of ways for Amazon’s digital assistant to control the house, like turning… Read More

Amazon reaches agreement with EU to end antitrust investigation into e-book deals

The European Commission has decided that terms offered up by Amazon sufficiently address concerns raised in a 2015 antitrust investigation over… Read More

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Five years after giving up unlimited wireless data, this is the monthly bill

Back in 2012, I was one of those early AT&T customers who was grandfathered into an unlimited data plan, determined… Read More

Intel’s Diane Bryant, leader of its data center group, taking leave of absence

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Wednesday that Diane Bryant, the executive in charge of Intel’s Data Center Group, is taking… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts EC2 prices once again, as much as 21 percent in some cases

It’s once again cheaper to use Amazon Web Services. The leading cloud computing company announced price cuts Wednesday across the… Read More

Game developer PopCap lays off portion of Seattle staff; GM says refocused studio not going away

PopCap, developers of such game titles as “Plants vs. Zombies,” “Bejeweled” and “Peggled,” announced on Tuesday that it was laying… Read More

Tableau stock rises following mixed quarterly earnings report as it continues subscription push

Tableau Software reported a mixed bag of earnings results for the first quarter, coming in on the low end of estimates… Read More

Facebook closes in on 2 billion monthly active users as it beats earnings estimates again

Facebook reported its 2017 first quarter earnings today. Here’s what you need to know: Facebook reported GAAP earnings per share… Read More

Heptio’s Joe Beda: Before embracing cloud computing, make sure your culture is ready

Ours is a world enamored with the possibilities unlocked by technological advances. And if we ever update our organizational thinking… Read More

F5 Networks will move HQ to glitzy new Seattle skyscraper, to be called ‘F5 Tower’

Updated below with financial terms of the lease. F5 Networks has leased all of the office space in an eye-catching skyscraper under… Read More

Report finds global app usage still rising, and users in the U.S. spend 135 minutes a day in them

There’s a reason that everyone you look at it is looking at a smartphone. According to the folks whose job… Read More

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How cutting-edge genetic tests for kids are creating a conundrum for parents

We often think of genetic mutations as ominous, life-threatening mistakes in our biology. But the reality is actually much different:… Read More

Stephen Hawking in "Into the Universe" on Discovery Channel

Stephen Hawking gives us 100 years to escape Earth – and looks into how to do it

In an upcoming TV documentary, British physicist Stephen Hawking revives his prediction that humanity will have to spread out a… Read More