Articles from 2017 – Page 137 of 175

Amazon Web Services starts offering free cloud storage and computing for Alexa skills

Amazon Web Services will offer $100 in promotional credit and up to an additional $100/month to cover any extra cloud computing and storage… Read More

Twitter inks another live sports streaming deal, this time with National Lacrosse League

Twitter today announced a two-year live streaming partnership with the National Lacrosse League (NLL), expanding its growing catalog of live… Read More

Concur adds new employee risk management service as it expands beyond travel expenses

Concur is using the data produced from its industry-leading travel expense management platform to expand into new verticals. The Bellevue,… Read More

French astronaut enjoys sax in space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield had his guitar, and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman had her flute: Now French astronaut Thomas Pesquet… Read More

Hands on with Microsoft Teams: All-in-one collaboration tool takes cues from relatives and rivals

Even though Microsoft just released its Teams enterprise collaboration tool today, there’s a familiar look and feel to a lot of the features,… Read More

What day is it at Amazon? Jeff Bezos knows in this photo from inside the company’s all-hands event

For 20 years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has known exactly what day it is. It’s always Day 1. Saying it’s… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Chris Pirillo’s inaugural ‘Galaxaar’ is a trove of geeky treasures

Chris Pirillo is a geek on a mission. More specifically, he’s a geek on a mission to create possibly the world’s biggest… Read More

OceanGate reveals plan to send scientists (and tourists) to Titanic shipwreck in 2018

OceanGate Expeditions says it’s planning the first crewed scientific expedition to study the wreck of the RMS Titanic in more… Read More

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman joins Microsoft board following $26B acquisition

Microsoft announced today that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has joined the company’s board of directors. Hoffman, who helped start LinkedIn in… Read More

Q&A: Microsoft Office chief Kirk Koenigsbauer on his ‘aha’ moment with Teams, the new culture under Satya Nadella, and the competition

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft commemorated the launch of its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in 181 markets around the… Read More

Inside Amazon’s Spheres: Official Instagram account launches to chronicle plant life and views

Photographers and passersby who have been captivated by the spheres taking shape on Amazon’s campus north of downtown Seattle now… Read More

Inside look: How Slack, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams stack up in enterprise messaging

[Editor’s Note: Samir Diwan is the CEO of Seattle startup Polly, which makes a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack,… Read More

So. Much. Magenta. T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn’t shy about showing off his colorful lifestyle

When Business Insider asked T-Mobile CEO John Legere to send them some photos capturing what an average week was like… Read More

Amazon patents drones with telescoping landing legs and foldable propellers

Amazon’s inventors are taking a page from Inspector Gadget’s playbook to design drones with adjustable landing legs and reconfigurable propellers.… Read More

GeekWire March Madness contest: Win a free Sports Tech Summit ticket, t-shirts, and more

We’re getting ready for our second annual GeekWire Sports Tech Summit that will take place on June 22 at CenturyLink… Read More

Co-working space for women The Riveter is launching in Seattle to build community and challenge ‘bro-working’

Amy Nelson is in the midst of a career pivot. A former Wall Street lawyer, she and co-founder Kim Peltola… Read More

Tech Moves: Jeff Bezos picks new top advisor; Glowforge adds Amazon hardware vet; and more

Jeff Bezos has a new “shadow.” According to his LinkedIn bio, former VP of Kindle Jeffrey Helbling has taken over… Read More

Microsoft Teams launches globally, taking on Slack, Amazon, Google, others in high-stakes chat battle

REDMOND, Wash. — After four months in preview, Microsoft is officially launching its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in… Read More

Microsoft adds new service tier to Azure SQL Database, increases storage limits on existing databases

Microsoft is making a series of enhancements to its Azure SQL Database, including a new “Premium RS” tier, as the big public… Read More

SpaceX postpones launch of EchoStar communications satellite due to high winds

High winds have forced SpaceX to postpone its launch of the EchoStar 23 communications satellite, a mission requiring so much… Read More

Here’s what people at the big SXSW conference think of Seattle (hint: rain and Microsoft)

AUSTIN, TX — SXSW has turned into one of the world’s largest annual tech events, where thousands of people from across the globe… Read More

NASA backs Kymeta’s mini-antennas and Tethers Unlimited’s 3-D printer/recycler

Flat-panel antennas that are tiny enough to fit on a nanosatellite and a 3-D printer that can recycle space station trash… Read More

No more needle and thread? This startup is developing a high-tech replacement for stitches

Whether they’re on a busted lip or helping close wounds after surgery, stitches and other sutures are a familiar presence… Read More

Documents reveal ‘AmazonFresh Pickup’ as the tech giant’s next physical retail concept

UPDATE, March 16: The signs are up at the Ballard location, but covered. See pictures below. New permit documents reveal… Read More

GeekWire Bash FAQ: Here’s what you need to know for Wednesday’s big party

GeekWire’s 6th Anniversary Bash is coming up this Wednesday at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle. We’ve got more than 1,500… Read More

Pi Day mashes up math and munchies

Pi Day plays off the fact that March 14 – 3/14 – is a numerical pun on math’s best-known irrational number: pi,… Read More

Trump supporters voice real outrage over fake #ResistanceRadio promoting Amazon TV series

Will 2017 be remembered as the year “fake” and “real” lost all meaning? We’re certainly on the right track. In… Read More

Here are Microsoft Bing’s March Madness bracket predictions, powered by ‘intelligent machine-learning technology’

Can Villanova repeat as national champs? Is this finally Gonzaga’s year? How far will Northwestern go? Don’t ask us. If you… Read More

UW Center for Dialysis Innovation gets $15M grant to improve dialysis technology

Dialysis can be a life-saving treatment for the millions of people across the globe who face kidney failure. But despite the… Read More

‘The Oatmeal’ backs plan to reintroduce grizzlies in Washington park and new comic urges fans to help

Matthew Inman, creator of the popular comic “The Oatmeal,” is leveraging his strength in numbers to attempt to strengthen the numbers… Read More