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Articles from 2017

Naveen Jain and Viome test

Entrepreneur Naveen Jain offers a gut check with Viome wellness tracking service

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Seattle-area entrepreneur Naveen Jain is ramping up Viome, a wellness monitoring service that’s the first venture brought to… Read More

Docker’s new Moby open-source project is the ‘Lego Club of container systems’

Docker Inc. is launching a new open-source initiative, dubbed the Moby Project, which the San Francisco-based company describes as a new… Read More

Donald Trump

Trump plans review to crack down on ‘abuse’ in work visa program relied on by tech companies

President Donald Trump plans to sign a series of executive orders today aimed at cracking down on abuse of the work… Read More

Atlas 5 liftoff

Liftoff sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station, but 360-degree video falls short

Today’s launch of a robotic Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station was totally successful. But the first-ever live… Read More

Vote for Geekiest Office Space: The coolest tech office spaces in the Seattle area

Rooftop decks. Mindfulness zones. Sports bars. This year’s finalists for the Geekiest Office Space in the GeekWire Awards have it… Read More

Charles Simonyi

Microsoft is acquiring Intentional Software, founded by Office pioneer Charles Simonyi

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Intentional Software, a Bellevue, Wash.-based productivity technology company founded by one of the pioneers… Read More

Steve Ballmer launches USAFacts, using business principles for an unprecedented government report

Steve Ballmer is a numbers guy. The former Microsoft CEO and current L.A. Clippers owner was renowned for using data… Read More

High-tech football helmet startup Vicis raises more cash as NFL, NCAA seasons approach

Vicis continues to raise more cash as the Seattle startup revs up production of its high-tech football helmet. The company… Read More

Samsung Galaxy S8 will have business search capability within dialer app via Hiya partnership

When you look up a phone number for a business or restaurant on your smartphone, doing a quick web search or scrolling through… Read More

Washington state OKs Fred Hutch license plates to raise funds for cancer research

When new car owners are picking license plates in Washington state, they can choose to pay a bit extra for a… Read More

Scientists use 3-D scans to ID duckbilled fish species 40 years after it was caught

After spending 40 years sitting in a museum jar, a toothy fish from the waters off Australia has been identified… Read More

Microsoft updates IFTTT competitor Flow and custom app building tool PowerApps

Microsoft released new updates today for Flow and PowerApps, a pair of services designed to help non-developers program interactions between their… Read More

Biotech standout Juno plans Bay Area office, hires ex-Genentech exec as R&D president

Juno Therapeutics announced Monday that a former Genentech executive, Dr. Sunil Agarwal, has joined the company as its new President of… Read More

Netflix misses subscriber estimates, explains why it won’t ink live sports partnerships like Amazon’s NFL deal

Netflix missed slightly on subscriber estimates for its first quarter earnings report as the streaming giant saw shares initially dip but then rise… Read More

OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar

GeekWire Awards: From marketing to machine learning, vote for your favorite App of the Year

Some of the most promising and popular software applications are built in the Pacific Northwest. That much is evident from… Read More

Former Seattle mayor Mike McGinn announces re-election bid, says he’ll push corporations to ‘pay their fair share’

If Mike McGinn is elected as mayor of Seattle again, he plans to ask big companies to help “pay for the… Read More

Boeing

Boeing will send layoff notices to hundreds of engineers, and more job cuts lie ahead

The Boeing Co. signaled that hundreds of employees involved in aerospace engineering in Washington state and other locations will be… Read More

Amazon closing in on Flipkart as top India e-commerce site among mobile users, study says

Amazon is making a $5 billion play to became the top e-commerce site in India, and it seems the investment… Read More

Ceze and Organick in DNA lab

UW, Microsoft and Twist Bioscience double down on DNA data storage experiments

Twist Bioscience says it’s extending its collaboration with Microsoft and the University of Washington on a project aimed at perfecting… Read More

Vote for Bootstrapper of the Year: These entrepreneurs are building businesses the old-fashioned way

Building a business is hard. And doing it without the assistance of outside capital is even harder. But those who… Read More

Video of murder uploaded to Facebook, highlighting perils of graphic video on social media

The day before Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference, the tech titan is in the headlines for a very different reason.… Read More

Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn to challenge incumbent Ed Murray

Mike McGinn, who served as mayor of Seattle from 2010 to 2013, is running for re-election. He announced his candidacy with… Read More

Open educational courseware startup Lumen Learning lands $3.7M and inks deal with Follett

Portland-based Lumen Learning today announced a $3.75 million Series A investment round and a new partnership with Follett to expand the… Read More

PicoBrew surpasses $1M Kickstarter mark and gets into craft spirits with new at-home distilling tool

PicoBrew started as a beer-making machine company. Now it’s clear the vision goes beyond that. The Seattle startup today unveiled its… Read More

Report: Microsoft exploring browser-like tabs for Windows 10 to simplify user experience

Microsoft is looking at bringing one of the internet’s most familiar experiences, shuffling through browser tabs, to apps throughout the Windows… Read More

Walmart’s potential acquisition of Bonobos could help retail giant challenge Amazon

Walmart is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Bonobos, an online fashion retailer aimed at helping men… Read More

Fred Hutch study: New nanoparticle immunotherapy could replace chemo as front-line cancer treatment

Dr. Matthias Stephan has a vision: cancer-killing immunotherapy that is so cheap and easy to access it replaces chemotherapy as the… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 9, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 9, 2017. Read More

6 lessons ‘Ghost in the Shell’ can teach you about cybersecurity

The original Ghost in the Shell (GitS) movie was practically compulsory material in the hacker subculture of the late 90s,… Read More

This Week in Seattle: Mayor fights abuse allegations, City Council recovers $3M in unpaid fees for affordable housing, and more

This week in Seattle: Washington state tries to block businesses from selling customer data and fingerprints; South Lake Union gets… Read More

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