Articles from 2017 – Page 115 of 175

Verizon on T-Mobile’s $8 billion wireless spectrum acquisition: ‘They need it, desperately’

T-Mobile touts its $8 billion low-band 600 MHz wireless spectrum acquisition as a game-changer, promising to significantly improve its LTE network throughout the… Read More

Microsoft hires former FTC commissioner to lead privacy and regulatory affairs

Microsoft has hired former FTC commissioner Julie Brill as its new corporate vice president in charge of privacy, data protection and other… Read More

GeekWire 200 April update: Smartsheet continues its climb toward the top

Smartsheet, the Next Tech Titan award winner at the 2016 GeekWire Awards, has been fulfilling that potential lately. Smartsheet is close… Read More

Bloomberg’s digital chief: Journalists must ‘reclaim’ their audience from Facebook and Google

The news industry faces a Herculean challenge. With resources and attention spans dwindling, media organizations find themselves in a war with tech… Read More

Geek of the Week: ExtraHop’s Ryan Corder says something special is brewing at work and at home

Something about working for a company called ExtraHop just begs the question: Do you like beer? The Seattle-based IT analytics… Read More

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Interview: How Best Buy is turning the tide against Amazon from the e-commerce giant’s backyard

E-commerce is killing traditional retail, right? Well, not quite — the reality is much more complex than that. It’s true… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlines its cloud computing strategy for Wall Street

Microsoft is a huge multinational technology company, with lines of business spread across PCs, productivity software, gaming, internet search, and… Read More

Those ’10 concerts’ lists on Facebook are fun and/or annoying — but are they a privacy threat?

Do I really need anyone to guess whether or not I saw Journey, Flock of Seagulls and Ratt in concert… Read More

Cloud Foundry’s Abby Kearns: Stop investing in commodity tech and find the cloud

If you’re a large enterprise company, what’s the biggest benefit of moving to the cloud now? Maybe then you’ll still… Read More

WNBA legend Sue Bird; SeatGeek co-founder; Topgolf CEO to speak at GeekWire Sports Tech Summit

A leading NFL executive; a mobile ticketing guru; an eSports innovator; a sports science expert; a women’s basketball legend; the CEO… Read More

WeChat parent Tencent is opening an A.I. lab in Seattle led by former Microsoft researcher

Tencent, the Chinese tech titan behind WeChat and a wide range of other services, plans to double down on artificial intelligence… Read More

Is this ‘as good as it gets’ for Amazon? Analyst downgrades stock after strong quarter

Following yesterday’s positive earnings report, Amazon is well on its way toward hitting $1,000 a share, but one firm is… Read More

Why Microsoft’s Surface hardware revenue fell 26% in the latest quarter

Microsoft’s revenue from its Surface hardware business slipped to $826 million in the last quarter, a 26 percent decline from a… Read More

Filing shows what Zillow pays for CEO’s air commute from L.A. to Seattle

When Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff bought a $20 million Los Angeles home, 1,000 miles from the company’s Seattle headquarters, he… Read More

Despite big quarter for cloud, slow quarter for Intel’s Data Center Group drags down Q1 earnings

Intel’s data center chips have been a bright spot for the company over the last few years as PC demand… Read More

Starbucks gives baristas new tablets to manage congestion caused by mobile order-ahead service

Starbucks continues to roll out new strategies to help combat congestion at stores caused by its mobile order-ahead service. The… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Wild Tangent seeks engineer to help develop HTML5 games platform

WildTangent began building its first app and games platform in Seattle almost 20 years ago, but it still has that startup… Read More

Alexa reaches 12,000 skills as Amazon’s digital assistant powers new Echo Look device

Alexa’s very special set of skills now numbers more than 12,000. Amazon announced the increased skill count in its quarterly… Read More

Amazon surpasses 350,000 employees, up 43% from last year

Amazon continues to grow its employee base as the tech giant added another 9,600 workers over the past quarter. As… Read More

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate tops $15B as Azure revenue soars

Azure was the star of Microsoft’s cloud division during its third fiscal quarter, with revenue growing 93 percent as part… Read More

Seattle Genetics reports $109M in quarterly revenue, narrowly beating expectations

Seattle-based biotech company Seattle Genetics announced a revenue of $109 million for the first quarter of 2017 Thursday, narrowly beating… Read More

Starbucks sees continued growth in mobile order and payment features in quarterly earnings

Initiatives designed to allow Starbucks customers to order and pay ahead with their mobile devices continued to show growth as… Read More

Microsoft boosts profits by 16% even as LinkedIn drags on bottom line

Microsoft this afternoon posted revenue of $23.6 billion, up 6 percent, and earnings of 73 cents a share, an increase… Read More

Alphabet shares rise 4% after beating Q1 earnings estimates with $24.7B in revenue

Google parent company Alphabet saw shares rise after beating analyst expectations for its first quarter earnings report. Alphabet, the holding company that includes… Read More

Amazon exceeds Wall Street expectations for 1st quarter, CEO Jeff Bezos touts efforts in India

Amazon came in just above Wall Street expectations for the first quarter of 2017, posting sales of $35.7 billion, up 23… Read More

AWS revenue up 42 percent to $3.66 billion in Q1 2017, operating income reaches $890 million

The crown jewel of Amazon’s business, Amazon Web Services, posted a 42 percent jump in revenue during the first fiscal… Read More

Expedia posts $2.2 billion in quarterly revenue, misses expectations after a tumultuous Q1

Today, Expedia reported $2.2 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2017, a 15 percent increase over the same… Read More

World’s largest Starbucks will be a 4-level Reserve Roastery on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile

This is what it looks like when a coffee giant thinks big. Starbucks announced this week that it will build another… Read More

Startup Spotlight: This biotech company uses fermentation to produce custom compounds

Here’s a wacky concept. Imagine you could give a microorganism, like yeast, specific instructions on what to produce during fermentation.… Read More

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Geared Up: What’s the point of Amazon’s Echo Look? Plus, hands-on with the Galaxy S8

Amazon unveiled a puzzling new device this week: The Echo Look, an Alexa-powered speaker with a built-in camera and lighting.… Read More