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Articles from 2017

Working Geek: Madrona’s growth guru Ryan Metzger uses data to stay organized at work and at home

As Madrona Venture Group’s in-house growth advisor, Ryan Metzger supports more than 60 companies at any given time. He’s also a… Read More

New goodies for AWS customers include database accelerators and the tech behind Alexa

Amazon Web Services trotted out a host of new features Wednesday for its industry-leading public cloud service, and couldn’t resist… Read More

LHS 1140 planet

Newfound super-Earth could be the best planet for analyzing alien atmospheres

It’s not the closest potentially habitable planet, but astronomers say a world 40 percent wider than Earth could be one of… Read More

Alpine Immune Sciences raising $17M in advance of merger with Colorado pharmaceutical company

Seattle biotech company Alpine Immune Sciences is raising $17 million as part of a merger with Nivalis, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical firm… Read More

Facebook wants to build a system to allow people to speak with their brains and hear through their skin

Facebook has thrown out its share of moonshots over the years, but this one puts the rest to shame. The… Read More

Facebook tests ‘Tether-Tenna’ to beam down the internet from helicopters

Facebook is adding tethered helicopters known as “Tether-Tennas” to its toolkit for widening internet access around the globe, even in… Read More

With the early adopters in its court, Docker sets its sights on the rest of the world

There’s a point in the evolution of a successful enterprise technology company in which the world starts to revolve around… Read More

New tool promotes empathy by asking Facebook users to follow their political opposites

A polarizing election has left the country deeply divided and social media widens that chasm by surrounding us with like-minded people. Recognizing… Read More

Portland plans to open its roads to autonomous vehicle testing in a bid to get out ahead of the trend

The city of Portland wants to get out ahead of the coming autonomous vehicle trend by opening up its streets… Read More

Alphabet’s Verily recruiting 10,000 volunteers to share medical data for giant health study

Despite our ever-advancing medical technology, there’s still a lot we don’t know about how people develop some of the world’s… Read More

Former NBA commissioner, Syracuse hoops head coach invest in SportsCastr live streaming platform

If you’ve ever wanted to be a sports broadcaster, there’s a new startup that is making it possible with technology.… Read More

After discontinuing popular NES Classic, Nintendo is reportedly working on a mini Super Nintendo

Nintendo is reportedly going back to the nostalgia well, putting together a miniature version of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that… Read More

Jeff Bezos

‘Irrelevance, excruciating decline, death.’ In new video, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos paints a bleak picture of ‘Day 2’

When you have the kind of wealth and power that allows you to build a rocket ship enterprise just for… Read More

Microsoft’s SQL Server is getting an artificial intelligence mind-meld

Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would… Read More

Tech journalism veteran Tom Krazit joins GeekWire as Cloud and Enterprise Editor

Over the last fifteen years or so, there were two seismic shifts in computing: from desktop to mobile, and from… Read More

Mark Vadon

Zulily co-founder Mark Vadon strikes e-commerce gold yet again as pet supply retailer Chewy sells for $3.35B

E-commerce pioneer Mark Vadon, who helped transform the way people buy engagement rings with Blue Nile and kids clothes with… Read More

Elemental Technologies changes name to AWS Elemental to reflect acquisition by Amazon

Elemental Technologies is now AWS Elemental. The company today officially announced its name change, which reflects Amazon’s $296 million acquisition of… Read More

Podcast

Full Interview: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses USAFacts, his “10-K for government”

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched his new nonprofit venture today, aiming to give everyday citizens the same type of information about… Read More

Drone delivery

Airbus strikes drone delivery deal with Singapore Post; Skyways trial set for 2018

Airbus Helicopters has partnered with Singapore Post for its Skyways drone delivery project, due to begin trials at the National… Read More

SeatGeek raises $57M and acquires Israel-based TopTix to take on Ticketmaster

SeatGeek upped its stature in the ticketing industry on Tuesday with a $57 million investment and acquisition of Israeli startup… Read More

Underwater lifting bag

Underwater warehouses? Amazon’s aquatic fulfillment centers could make it so

Amazon has patented some crazy ideas, including flying fulfillment centers that drop packages from the air. But its patent for… Read More

Facebook aims to become ‘Yellow Pages of messaging’ with new Messenger updates

There are already about 100,000 monthly active Facebook Messenger bots out there right now, but a new suite of tools… Read More

Fashion-focused Amazon wins patent for ‘on-demand apparel manufacturing’

Amazon has a snazzy new idea for cutting the cost of making clothes. The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut just won a patent… Read More

Subway sandwich

Subway launches Facebook Messenger bot to allow pre-ordering at its 26,500 U.S. restaurants

Robots may eventually do much of the work behind the counter at fast food restaurants, but today they’re relegated to mostly… Read More

Golden State Warriors launch Facebook Messenger bot for fans to use during NBA Playoffs

Golden State Warriors fans now have a new tech-powered assistant at their disposal during the NBA Playoffs. The Bay Area-based… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg says ‘we have a lot more to do here’ in regard to ‘Facebook Killer’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the “Facebook Killer” tragedy at the beginning of his company’s annual developer’s conference on Tuesday… Read More

How Facebook’s Seattle office helped the company’s newest innovations come to fruition

Facebook is holding its annual F8 developer conference in San Jose this week, but Seattle is well represented. During Tuesday’s keynote, the… Read More

Microsoft Azure, AWS, Docker and Google Cloud headline GeekWire’s first-ever Cloud Tech Summit

The Seattle region is emerging as the cloud capital of the world, and GeekWire’s inaugural Cloud Tech Summit, taking place on June… Read More

Augmented reality will be Facebook’s next big push, starting with smartphone cameras

Facebook is betting big on augmented reality. Kicking off the annual F8 developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans… Read More

Facebook Platform turns 10, releases new features to unite developers around the globe

When Facebook hosted its first F8 developer conference a decade ago, the social media giant was used by a paltry 20… Read More

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