Articles from 2017 – Page 118 of 175

Fast-moving Rover launches national ad campaign starring man’s best friend

Rover is growing up fast and learning some new tricks along the way. The Seattle startup is rolling out its… Read More

Amazon Web Services set for hiring spree — new report shows 5,600 open positions

Amazon Web Services enjoys a healthy lead in the market for public cloud services, and it plans to hire thousands… Read More

Autonomous deliveries? Secretive Amazon team explores the potential for self-driving vehicles

Amazon has had a team dedicated to researching autonomous vehicles for more than a year, according to a report from the Wall… Read More

Amazon’s newest marketplace aims to make a splash in digital subscriptions

Amazon this morning announced a new marketplace for companies to get their subscription offerings in front of the online retail… Read More

Healthcare tech company Accolade integrates family leave assistance with new partnership

Accolade, a healthcare technology company led by the two founders of Concur, announced Monday that it is partnering with Memphis-based… Read More

LinkedIn tops 500M members, as Microsoft starts to take advantage of all that LinkedIn data

LinkedIn has surpassed 500 million members globally, one of the first big milestones for the business social network since its acquisition by… Read More

In video call to space station, President Donald Trump calls for speeding up trips to Mars

Humans on Mars by 2024? President Donald Trump set that time frame today, almost certainly in jest, during a congratulatory… Read More

Redfin report tracks which cities people want to flee (Bay Area) and where they want to stay (Seattle)

An inaugural quarterly report from Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin takes a look at the migration patterns of people… Read More

‘Watch your back, Jeff Bezos’: Amazon sparks laughs on HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” comedy series presents a California-centric view of how tech is done (and undone), but Amazon CEO Jeff… Read More

Steve Ballmer’s sad face becomes a meme after Clippers lose playoff game to Jazz

There’s never a dull moment watching Steve Ballmer watch his basketball team. The former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers owner… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 16, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 16, 2017. Read More

Watch ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye’s epic defense of science at ‘March for Science’ in Washington, D.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x507ZlDoc-Y Bill Nye “the Science Guy,” the television personality and former Boeing engineer who got his start in Seattle TV sketch comedy, gave a… Read More

Scenes from the ‘other Washington’: D.C.’s March for Science sparks a chain reaction

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The scenery for the world’s most watched March for Science may have featured the political icons of the… Read More

‘The oceans are rising and so are we.’ Photos, tweets, and more from Seattle’s March for Science

It’s a soggy Seattle Saturday but that didn’t deter thousands of activists from marching for climate research and sound science policy… Read More

This Week in Seattle: Mayoral race heats up with income tax proposals and new contenders

This week in Seattle: The mayoral race heats up; Scoop partners with the city to promote carpooling; Earth Day celebrations… Read More

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Week in Geek: Facebook tries telepathic typing, inside an Amazon greenhouse, and more

Are you ready to type with just your brain? Facebook revealed this week that it’s working with a team of more… Read More

Seahawks star Russell Wilson, astronaut Buzz Aldrin share inspiration with students at WE Day

Write down your goals, listen more, and dream big. These are good pieces of advice for anyone, really, but they… Read More

Report: Maybe Google won’t use Chrome to destroy web advertising

Anonymous sources told Bloomberg Friday that Google plans to release an ad filter for an upcoming version of its Chrome… Read More

Upstream Music Fest + Summit releases app with key features for diving into inaugural Seattle event

Attendees of the upcoming Upstream Music Fest + Summit in Seattle can now prep for the big event with a… Read More

University of Washington among top schools at turning ideas into patents and startups, study says

Coming up with a great idea for a new technology or startup is one thing. But turning that idea into… Read More

Geek of the Week: CIDR president John Aitchison could have been a pro sailor, but chose to cure deadly diseases instead

John Aitchison is a man of many talents. “Growing up, I wanted to be a professional sailor, but that seemed… Read More

With the release of Amazon Lex, AWS asks: Developers, can you build me a chatbot?

Now that Amazon Web Services has made public its Amazon Lex technology, which makes Alexa fetch another case of LaCroix… Read More

Element Data raises $1.7M to power platform that helps people make decisions using A.I.

Element Data, a Seattle startup that uses machine learning to help people and organizations make big decisions, just closed a… Read More

Samsung Galaxy S8 released, comes with Amazon camera search technology built in

The Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone hits stores today, and Amazon fans will notice a familiar experience. The smartphone comes with Amazon’s… Read More

Stay up and look up as annual Lyrid meteor shower is expected to put on a show this weekend

If you’re up late tonight and into Saturday morning, you might as well look up and try to catch a… Read More

Thirsty Thursday with GeekWire: Photos from our hoppin’ happy hour at Pike Brewing

There’s nothing quite like waking up on a sunny morning after an evening clinking glasses, playing games, and chatting with… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Last day to vote in 14 categories, tickets on sale for the party

Today marks the last day for voting in the GeekWire Awards, the biggest celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship in the… Read More

Techstars grad Stackery raises cash from Voyager, aiming to disrupt DevOps cloud infrastructure market with serverless toolset

Before even graduating from the Techstars Seattle 2017 class, Stackery CEO Nate Taggart had a check in hand — and not… Read More

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray floats city income tax proposal on ‘high-end’ households

At a mayoral forum Thursday night, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said he would send a proposal to the City Council… Read More

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Geared Up: iPhone rumors, a potential SNES Classic Edition and strong words for Facebook’s VR chat

The new iPhone is months away from being released, but some insiders are already getting chatty about its design. Bloomberg… Read More