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Articles from 2017

‘Alexa, order my Starbucks’: Coffee giant launches ‘reorder skill’ for Amazon’s voice assistant

Starbucks unveiled a new third-party skill for Amazon Alexa this morning, letting regular customers reorder their favorite coffee and food… Read More

Car2go adds new 4-door Mercedes Benz models to car-sharing fleet in 7 cities, including Seattle

Talk about an upgrade. Car2go, traditionally known for its smaller two-seat Smart cars, is adding hundreds of new Mercedes-Benz vehicles to… Read More

SpaceX test track for Hyperloop

Elon Musk hails Hyperloop teams – and touts the tunnel he’ll be boring at SpaceX

Three student teams got through the engineering gauntlet and sent their Hyperloop pods through a mile-long tube to test a… Read More

#DeleteUber starts trending worldwide amid Trump’s anti-immigration ban; Lyft donates $1M to ACLU

Uber started trending worldwide on social media this weekend, but the company probably isn’t too thrilled about it. #DeleteUber spread… Read More

Dara Khosrowshahi

Internal memo: Expedia’s CEO, a former Iranian refugee, slams Trump’s ‘reactionary’ visa crackdown

Online travel industry giant Expedia Inc. has more at stake in U.S. immigration policy than many other companies do, given… Read More

PAX Unplugged: Penny Arcade’s new tabletop-only convention debuts this November in Philadelphia

At PAX South on Friday in San Antonio, Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik announced PAX Unplugged, a… Read More

New Seattle Mariners CEO John Stanton on tech, the business of baseball … and the return of Ichiro?

John Stanton, the investor, Microsoft board member and veteran wireless executive, took over as Seattle Mariners CEO and chairman last fall after leading… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 22, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 22, 2017. Read More

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Court partially blocks Trump immigration ban amid protests and tech industry backlash

Updated with comments from Amazon, Expedia and Gov. Jay Inslee. A federal judge has issued an emergency stay that halts part… Read More

Trump’s immigration ban impacts 76 Microsoft employees; CEO Satya Nadella speaks out

[FOLLOW-UP: Court partially blocks Trump immigration ban amid protests and tech industry backlash] [Update, Tuesday morning]: Microsoft’s Nadella spoke to… Read More

Guirec Soudee

Why did the chicken cross the sea? To be this French sailor’s new best friend — and an online hit

Guirec Soudée became so close to his sailing companion, Monique, that he was prepared to go to jail for her.… Read More

Here’s what it’ll be like to ride on Jeff Bezos’ suborbital Blue Origin spaceship

The folks who ride New Shepard, the suborbital spaceship being tested by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be… Read More

Google, Facebook and Microsoft sound alarm over Trump’s immigration crackdown

[FOLLOW-UP: Court partially blocks Trump immigration ban amid protests and tech industry backlash] President Trump’s actions on immigration during his… Read More

Following Trump’s lead, Pentagon orders reviews of Air Force One, F-35 fighter jets

President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, James Mattis, has ordered reviews of the multibillion-dollar programs to acquire new Air Force One… Read More

Satya Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: How Azure will fend off Amazon Web Services in the enterprise

Microsoft believes that its unique combination of cloud offerings will hold off market-leading public-cloud service Amazon Web Services in Microsoft’s… Read More

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Week in Geek: Microsoft takes on the DOJ, inside Amazon’s giant post-holiday party, and more

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice are once again battling things out in court. But unlike their duel back… Read More

Pentagon awards $2.1 billion contract to Boeing for more KC-46 tanker aircraft

Boeing has won a $2.1 billion contract to build more tanker planes for the U.S. Air Force, the manufacturer and the… Read More

Joseph Williams

Could Washington state rule the Internet of Things? Maybe, but there are challenges

It’s pretty well accepted that Seattle is the epicenter of cloud computing, with the industry’s two giants, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Video: GeekWire predicts 2017’s top tech trends on New Day NW

GeekWire’s Monica Nickelsburg visited New Day Northwest to forecast the biggest tech trends coming in 2017. Earlier this month she… Read More

Microsoft design guru explains why originality is ‘vastly overrated’

In the tech community, there are countless entrepreneurs who think they have an idea that’s so original, it’s bound to… Read More

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50 years after Apollo 1 fire, NASA exhibits fatal artifacts in Florida for the first time

Fifty years ago today, three NASA astronauts died in a launch pad fire when they couldn’t open the hatch of… Read More

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Photos: Amazonians storm the ‘Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne — with dogs, bananas and dragons, too

Move over King’s Landing, the real seat of power when it comes to “Game of Thrones” this week was in… Read More

Tostitos bag tells you when you’ve had too much to drink and calls an Uber in Super Bowl campaign

What goes better with a few beers than a bag of chips? Apparently, a bag that can call an Uber… Read More

Geek of the Week: Data scientist Muhammad Ahmad’s many pursuits include AI, art and simulations of dead people

As a senior data scientist at Groupon and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the… Read More

Newly appointed FCC chairman announces order to roll back portion of net neutrality rules

One week after President Donald Trump appointed Ajit Pai as chairman of the FCC, Pai has introduced a plan to… Read More

Redmond Ridge facility

SpaceX adds a big new lab to its satellite development operation in Seattle area

SpaceX has taken on a 40,625-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash., that will become a research and development lab for its… Read More

AI

Apple, ACLU join partnership to research artificial intelligence, create best practices

When industry leaders launched a non-profit organization in September to create best practices for artificial intelligence, one company was notably missing.… Read More

NFL legend Joe Montana is launching his own virtual reality football game

Joe Montana is getting back into video games. The Hall of Fame quarterback who won four Super Bowl rings is… Read More

Google CEO on competition with Amazon Echo and Alexa: Don’t count us out yet

Amazon is still reaping the benefits of its early lead in home voice technology, thanks to its Echo smart speaker… Read More

Report: Amazon and PayPal have discussed payments partnership, PayPal CEO says

Amazon customers could someday be able to use PayPal for their purchases. In an interview with Bloomberg News, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman… Read More

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