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Articles from 2017

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 5, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 5, 2017. Read More

Melinda Gates on the importance (and lack) of big data in global health

There is an almost overwhelming number of pressing global health issues today. Preparing for epidemics like Ebola, the increasing dangers of… Read More

Amazon cloud leader Andy Jassy sizes up the competition in rare public remarks about rivals

Amazon likes to say that it focuses on customers, not competitors, which means it’s rare for the company’s top executives to talk about their rivals publicly.… Read More

Scientists put a laser scanner inside blood vessels to look for cardiovascular risks

Researchers have found a way to use a laser-scanning mini-camera to map the inner working of blood vessels and spot… Read More

Seth Shostak

Marijuana fans mix with space fans at The Goodship Company’s Seattle SETI salon

Is Seattle’s Goodship Higher Education Series about bringing together cannabis users? Or is it about deep subjects like the search for… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: NBA goes big into eSports, and free shipping is costing Amazon big time

If you’re an eSports skeptic, hold onto your hats: the NBA announced this week that it is adding eSports teams… Read More

Zillow Digs

Zillow loses $8.3M federal copyright lawsuit related to its Digs home design website

Zillow was ordered to pay $8.3 million in damages after losing a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by VHT Inc. in… Read More

Reports: White House considers rewriting immigration order instead of going directly to Supreme Court

It looks like President Donald Trump’s promise to “SEE YOU IN COURT” might have been an empty threat. A day… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Amazon vets launch crowdsourced decision-making app Abett

From advertising to city planning, data powers the modern world. And while businesses are becoming increasingly sophisticated in leveraging data… Read More

Amazon spent just $103M on acquisitions last year, down sharply amid broader tech M&A slowdown

Amazon has made some blockbuster acquisitions over the years — including the Zappos online retailer, Kiva Systems robotics company, Twitch game… Read More

Best way from A to B: Former Expedia vet raises $1.5M for stealthy transportation advice startup

You’ve got somewhere to be, but aren’t sure what mode of transportation is best. Uber or Lyft might get you there… Read More

‘Game of Thrones’ star wanders Greenland to capture spectacular Google Street View images

Jaime Lannister may already know his way around Westeros, but what about an equally intriguing land? Greenland, for instance. Actor… Read More

Vesiflo raises $2.4M to bring bladder-controlling device to market

Vesiflo, a medical device startup based in Redmond, Wash., has raised $2.4 million out of a planned $3 million funding round… Read More

Podcast

GearedUp gets dressed up with a pair of Seattle’s first Snap Spectacles and a smart bike helmet

They’re here! Snapchat’s mysterious vending machine, the “Snapbot,” finally made an appearance in Seattle this week. The machines are the… Read More

Coolest Cooler

Coolest Cooler delivers new update as deliveries trickle out for still-waiting Kickstarter backers

The ice melted many months ago. The drinks are beyond warm by now. Kickstarter backers who are still waiting on their… Read More

Ford self-driving car

Ford partners with Google and Uber veterans at Argo AI for self-driving cars

Ford Motor Co. says it’s investing $1 billion over the next five years in a Pittsburgh startup called Argo AI to… Read More

Could Amazon make Victoria’s Secret go bust? Tech giant reportedly launching line of $10 bras

For years, Victoria’s Secret has held a monopoly on the lingerie market, but recently, e-commerce startups like ThirdLove and True… Read More

Penumbral lunar eclipse

It’ll take labor and luck to spot a subtle lunar eclipse and a groovy green comet

Tonight’s the night when a lunar eclipse dims the full moon, and when a recently discovered green comet comes closest… Read More

SNL on Snapchat

It’s hard to #resist! ‘Saturday Night Live’ debuts on Snapchat with story about couple’s Trump troubles

“Saturday Night Live” has been riding a wave of success on television this season thanks to the material the show mined from… Read More

Steve Singh

SAP President Steve Singh says cloud computing is yesterday’s news — ‘microservices’ are the future

Cloud computing is so 2016. Sure, migration from client servers to the cloud is an ongoing megatrend, but tech moves… Read More

Valve is working on three new virtual reality games, ‘not just experiments’

Valve has been teasing virtual reality games since last year, but on Friday the Bellevue-based company finally gave details about… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Tech evangelist Robert Scoble predicts mixed reality devices will largely supplant smartphones

Virtual and mixed reality technology is developing even more rapidly than many anticipated. For some, that’s a nightmare scenario, a… Read More

Facebook announces audit by media watchdog after misreporting metrics in 2016

After coming under fire for misreporting metrics last year, Facebook announced Friday that it’s committed to undergo an audit by… Read More

Bill would let public utilities team with private companies on electric vehicle charging stations

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Representatives of Seattle City Light and other public utilities spoke Thursday in favor of a bill by Rep… Read More

Alexa in the warehouse? What enterprise cloud company Acumatica learned from this experiment

Acumatica, the privately held enterprise cloud technology company led by former Microsoft executive Jon Roskill, is coming off a year of 83 percent… Read More

Ghostruck, an Uber-like startup for moving, faces $730K in penalties for operating without permits

Seattle-based moving service startup Ghostruck faces up to $730,000 in penalties for illegally operating as a household good carrier without… Read More

Donald Trump

Twitterverse goes into all-caps frenzy after appeals court ruling dumps on Trump

President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one hitting the all-caps key after word got out that a federal appeals court… Read More

Dara Khosrowshahi

Expedia CEO on earnings call: ‘Hopefully we will all be alive to see the end of next year.’

This is what optimism looks like in 2017. At the end of Expedia’s call with analysts following its fourth quarter… Read More

Tesla workers consider unionizing as employee cites low pay and injuries at California plant

Workers at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., are considering unionizing and have reached out to United Auto Workers (UAW), according… Read More

Federal judges decline to resume Trump’s immigration ban, siding with Washington state

President Trump’s controversial executive order temporarily restricting immigration to the U.S. will not be reinstated at this time, thanks to… Read More

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