Articles from 2017 – Page 117 of 175

30 million trips later, Seattle’s 520 floating bridge turns 1 — and more work is coming to vital corridor

Something about putting up with years of road construction seems to make the time fly when a project is complete… Read More

Talking toilets: Bill Gates uses 360 video to show how India is winning in its clean sanitation battle

There’s a lot of things we take for granted in developed countries: safe drinking water, constant access to electricity and,… Read More

Former Expedia IT tech gets 15 months in jail for insider trading, stealing information from execs

A former IT technician for Expedia subsidiary Hotwire was sentenced to 15 months in prison today, after he pled guilty last… Read More

Students in Washington state and Paris collaborate on app to share untold stories of WWI vets

When marketing expert Tim Fry and history teacher Anthony Rovente teamed up last summer to create a Washington state history app,… Read More

Three years after $7B Nokia deal, Microsoft’s smartphone strategy has changed dramatically

It’s hard to believe that it was only three years ago today that Microsoft officially completed its purchase of Nokia’s… Read More

Apple stores set for global makeover, addition of new educational programming

As Apple builds out a new store in Seattle’s University Village Mall, the company is gearing up to revamp its… Read More

Uber unveils its flying-car team and aims for a 2020 liftoff in Dallas and Dubai

Uber has been talking about flying cars for months, but today the ride-sharing company fleshed out its plan to become a… Read More

Entomo raises $2.5M to put its enterprise channel management software on the map

When you think “enterprise software,” industry leaders like Oracle, Microsoft and SAP may come to mind, but Entomo may not be on… Read More

New pricing tiers for Box Platform make it easier to project monthly storage costs

Box made it a little easier for developers to use its storage services in their applications Tuesday, unveiling new pricing… Read More

Hey, fancy pants, these $425 Nordstrom jeans with fake mud will make you look like a harder worker

Tech geeks who work behind a desk all day don’t exactly generate a mess worthy of having their occupation considered… Read More

Tech Moves: 9Mile Labs co-founder Sanjay Puri joins Avalara; open-standards advocate leaves Microsoft; Amplero board adds big names

Tax automation startup Avalara has been quietly stocking up on high-profile tech leadership for the past few months, and they just landed another… Read More

Mpirica Health raises $4.6M for hospital-ranking platform, a ‘batting average’ for surgeries

One of the first things we do when deciding where to buy a house or what company to work for is… Read More

New underwear at the push of a button? Amazon adds 40 more brands to Dash, including Calvin Klein

If nothing comes between you and your Calvins, boy does Amazon have some good news for you. The Seattle company… Read More

Amazon Prime membership doubled in 2 years to 80M in the U.S., study estimates

A new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that Amazon Prime membership doubled in the last two years to more… Read More

Container-security startup Twistlock secures $17M in new funding for Portland expansion

Twistlock has raised $17 million in new Series B funding to fuel future growth, and it plans to make that… Read More

Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein in "Genius"

Sex, spies and Einstein on TV: National Geographic’s ‘Genius’ spices up science

There have been plenty of TV documentaries about Albert Einstein, but almost none of them begin with a political assassination… Read More

Nearly 5 years later, this original Microsoft Surface RT is still useful, at least as a spare

It pays to have a spare tire. Even if it’s one of those “space saver” spare tires that you can… Read More

Chew on this: Portland Gum Wall may mimic gross Seattle landmark, and some say that idea blows

If the good folks of Portland want to keep that city weird, as the saying goes, they should stick to… Read More

Microsoft says hello to Trello with new Teams tie-in as it battles Slack and others in packed chat market

The popular project management program Trello is now integrated into Microsoft Teams, the Redmond tech giant’s new enterprise messaging platform within… Read More

Seattle goes after commercial Airbnb operators with revised rules for short-term rentals

The Seattle City Council is taking a new approach to regulating short-term rentals, hoping to crack down on businesses that… Read More

Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has ‘a pretty good shot’ of overtaking AWS in five years

Place your bets: Google Cloud Platform head Diane Greene told attendees at the Forbes CIO Summit last night that she… Read More

T-Mobile adds another 1.1M customers, quarterly profits surge 48% to nearly $700M

T-Mobile added a net total of 1.1 million customers in the first quarter, climbing above 72 million customers for the first time,… Read More

Mozak turns brain cell mapping into video game, thanks to UW and Allen Institute

A game called Mozak is turning thousands of Internet users into “tracers” who help neuroscientists map out the tangled circuitry of brain… Read More

Fred Hutch Study: Novel immunotherapy tech made tumors shrink, a good sign for future treatments

Immunotherapy — treatments that harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer — have seen promising results in blood cancers like… Read More

Apple will build a 200-megawatt wind farm for its Prineville, Ore., data center facility

Apple signed a deal earlier this year to purchase 200 megawatts of wind power for its Prineville, Ore., data center,… Read More

Filings show Juno executives took hits to their compensation following failed clinical trial

This time last year, Seattle biotech company Juno Therapeutics was on its way to having the first CAR T immunotherapy… Read More

Flying car? Kitty Hawk’s first working prototype looks more like a flying raft

Kitty Hawk, the hush-hush flying car venture backed by Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page, unveiled the first working prototype of… Read More

Amazon’s newest pillars? AI and logistics key to tech giant’s future, study says

Amazon has evolved constantly throughout its more than 20-year life span, first as a book seller, than an e-commerce giant, and… Read More

Independent booksellers show they’re still going strong with planned Seattle Bookstore Day celebrations across the city

The hard times independent booksellers have fallen on over the last decade can probably be traced back to Seattle. This… Read More

New Zillow commercials tug at the heart strings by playing off emotion that goes into ‘Finding Home’

If you think looking for or attempting to buy a home is already an emotional experience, new ads from Zillow… Read More