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Articles from 2017

Life and death for Windows: Vista support ends as Creators Update starts to roll out

April 11 will be a life and death experience for users of Microsoft Windows and Office. It is the day… Read More

Why Amazon is spending $4.5B on video this year — and how it compares to competitors like Netflix

Amazon will dedicate an estimated $4.5 billion on video content this year, narrowing the spending gap between the Seattle e-commerce giant… Read More

Microsoft acquires open-source software builder Deis to bolster container platforms

Microsoft said Monday that it has acquired Deis, a San Francisco company that builds open-source software to make the Kubernetes container platform… Read More

Vote for CEO of the Year: These top tech execs are driving change through creative leadership

They are the captains of the ship, the leaders who set the course and — when danger looms — know… Read More

Alexa Diabetes Challenge hopes Amazon’s virtual assistant can help patients manage the chronic condition

Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, seems to have unlimited talents. But can her skills help people with chronic health… Read More

Microsoft launching ‘Minecraft Marketplace’ so third-party developers can sell items in the blockbuster game

Minecraft, the wildly popular game that lets players create infinite worlds, will soon allow community developers to sell storylines, games within… Read More

Flipkart lands $1.4B from Microsoft, eBay, Tencent as India online retail battle with Amazon continues

Flipkart announced a $1.4 billion investment round Monday, involving some tech heavyweights from around the globe, as it goes toe-to-toe with… Read More

Apple I Steve Jobs

‘Most important computer in history’: Steve Jobs machine part of Apple exhibit at Paul Allen museum

The Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle is home to some of the most noteworthy machines ever created. But… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 2, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 2, 2017. Read More

Lewicki and Schneider

Luxembourg leaders will visit Seattle area to dig deeper into asteroid mining

Luxembourg’s Crown Prince Guillaume and Deputy Prime Minister Étienne Schneider will be leading a delegation from the tiny European nation… Read More

This Week in Seattle: Mayor denies sexual abuse charges, Bertha breaks free, and more

This week in Seattle: Mayor Ed Murray is sued for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor while another mayoral… Read More

Mylio lands $25M from Chinese investors to continue building the ‘private cloud,’ will open R&D facility in China

Mylio is going global. The Bellevue, Wash. startup, which is known for its photo organizing app but has branched out… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Coastline’s digital marketplace connects fishermen with seafood joints

You’d be hard-pressed to find a marketplace more analog than fishermen selling seafood straight from the dock at the crack of… Read More

Video: Blue Origin’s president points out upgrades on New Shepard spaceship

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship performed beautifully during five trips to space and back, but the… Read More

Stealthy University of Washington spinout raises cash for non-invasive cancer-diagnosing liquid biopsy

University of Washington spinout Bellwether Bio isn’t disclosing much about its technology, but what it is sharing could be promising… Read More

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The Week in Geek: Uber wins a round in Seattle union fight, Bertha gets her big break, and cloud startups land cash

The City of Seattle celebrated a big win this week, and one small loss. First up: Bertha, the one-of-a-kind tunnel… Read More

"John Carter" airship

NASA funds ideas from science fiction

Truth can be stranger than fiction, but it shouldn’t be strange to hear that NASA spends millions of dollars on… Read More

Dana Lewis

Geek of the Week: Dana Lewis built her own artificial pancreas, and is helping hundreds of other people do the same

Dana Lewis doesn’t do things by halves. In 2013, she started a project to tweak the alarm on her glucose monitoring… Read More

Vote for Geek of the Year: Here are your finalists in the 2017 GeekWire Awards

In a world full of fancy photo filters and funny GIFs, it’s easy to forget sometimes that technology is at… Read More

Filings reveal big new Apple Store at prime Seattle retail site, on Microsoft’s doorstep

There is a huge construction pit in the middle of the upscale University Village mall in Seattle, and no one… Read More

kayak at work

Travel site Kayak knows you’re planning a trip while at work — so they made this discreet search page

If you’re scrambling to get those TPS reports done before the weekend hits, but just can’t get your mind off… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up: Xfinity’s new mobile service, YouTube launches TV feature and hands-on with Apple Clips

Just in case Xfinity doesn’t offer enough services, the cable and internet provider is making the leap into another industry:… Read More

Seattle housing

Seattle’s hot housing market doesn’t show signs of cooling, with homes reaching a median sale price of $700,000

It’s still a seller’s market. Seattle home values continued their seemingly endless ascent last month, reaching a median sale price $630,800.… Read More

NFL and NCAA teams will equip players with VICIS high-tech helmets during spring football

More Vicis helmets are out in the wild as the Seattle startup prepares to equip NFL and NCAA teams with… Read More

Podcast

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos: ‘The only thing that’s disruptive is customer adoption’

Amazon often gets the blame — or credit, depending on your perspective — for upending traditional industries, particularly in the brick-and-mortar retail… Read More

Apartment construction

Renting in Seattle? This is how much your income needs to jump to keep up with expected increases

Renters in Seattle already struggling with increases that are making the city unaffordable will need an income boost next year… Read More

Spengler and Kundtz

Bill Gates-backed satellite antenna company Kymeta raises $73.5M, total funding nears $200M

Kymeta has raised its largest investment round to fuel development of the company’s satellite antenna technology. The Redmond, Wash.-based company recently… Read More

Working Geek: What Fjuri’s new Chief People Officer Tammy Perkins learned from Microsoft and Amazon

A few weeks ago, Tammy Perkins joined marketing and digital strategy firm Fjuri, bringing with her more than 20 years… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Cast your ballot in a competitive field for Deal of the Year

Dealmakers were busy over the past 12 months in the Seattle area, with money flowing into IPOs, venture capital rounds… Read More

Jupiter as seen by Hubble

Jumping Jupiter! Hubble Space Telescope gives giant planet its super-close-up

Jupiter is as close as it’ll get to Earth this year, and the Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of the… Read More

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