Articles from 2017 – Page 19 of 175

Tech Moves: Madrona adds new entrepreneur in residence; Amplero appoints CRO; and more

Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group just named its newest entrepreneur in residence: former PayByPhone CEO Kush Parikh. Parikh has been… Read More

Boeing and Airbus reveal dueling multibillion-dollar deals at Dubai Airshow

There’s nothing like an international air show to bring out the multibillion-dollar sales, and the 2017 Dubai Airshow is setting… Read More

Last call for GeekWire HQ2 submissions! Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity for your city

In less time than it takes to have an Amazon Prime package delivered, the deadline for GeekWire HQ2 submissions will… Read More

Long-legged Teddy bear that creeped out the internet spotted in Seattle-area Goodwill — 88% off!

UPDATE, Nov. 17: This story has been updated to reflect that the bear above is not a Joyfay Teddy bear.… Read More

Seattle Children’s launches $1 billion campaign with plans to build new immunotherapy research center

Seattle Children’s, a hospital and research institute focused on curing childhood diseases, is kickstarting the biggest campaign in its 110-year… Read More

Alaska Air to offer nonstop flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh — ‘great news’ for UW … and Amazon?

Alaska Airlines announced Wednesday morning that it will begin offering daily, nonstop service between Seattle and Pittsburgh — further connecting… Read More

Get a double dose of ‘Year in Space’ lore from astronaut (and author) Scott Kelly

Space fans are used to seeing double when they’re keeping track of twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly, but this… Read More

Seattle mayor’s advice for the city that lands Amazon HQ2

Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess believes being home to Amazon HQ1 has been “a huge benefit to the community” but has… Read More

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

Anthony Bourdain lunches with GeekWire, dishes on tech, pot and VR porn in a changing Seattle

It’s not every day that you get to sit down for lunch with Anthony Bourdain — chef, world traveler, best-selling… Read More

Alexa, eh? Amazon’s digital brain, Echo devices and Prime Music come to Canada

Amazon is taking Alexa north of the border. The retail giant said today that Amazon’s digital brain, as well as… Read More

Testing Imperfect Produce: ‘Ugly’ fruits and veggies delivered at a discount — but how do they taste?

Don’t judge a fruit or vegetable by its cover. That’s one of my takeaways after testing Imperfect Produce, a food… Read More

Elon Musk frets about love life (and sheds a few tears) in Rolling Stone interview

Elon Musk may know how to get to Mars with SpaceX, and how to revolutionize the transportation industry with Tesla… Read More

Senate abandons plan to tax stock options at vesting after backlash from the tech industry

The tech industry is breathing a sigh of relief this morning because the U.S. Senate has ditched its plan to… Read More

Amazon slashes Whole Foods prices on holiday items, with deeper discounts for Prime members

Amazon and Whole Foods Market are dropping prices on holiday favorites and other popular items and offering even greater discounts for… Read More

Microsoft launches Azure Databricks, a new cloud data platform based on Apache Spark

Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use… Read More

Setting the edge: Cloud experts sketch out how edge computing will evolve

The last ten years marked a centralization of computing, in which we moved away from relying on our individual computers… Read More

Beyond pet friendly: New Trupanion poll shows just how much millennials love their dogs and cats

Millennials are willing to adjust where they live, who they date and what tattoo they get all it the name… Read More

Tacoma entrepreneur Eli Moreno kicks off a $50K prize to track Monarch butterflies

Premier Residential CEO Eli Moreno has helped several startups take flight in Western Washington, but his latest venture focuses on… Read More

Alaska Airlines will end flights to Cuba, due to policy changes and fading demand

Less than a year after Alaska Airlines began daily flights to Cuba amid a burst of red-white-and-blue fanfare, the Seattle-based… Read More

Closure of Runic Games puts another dent in Seattle’s video game scene

The closure of Runic Games, the Seattle-based video-game studio that created the popular dungeon crawlers Torchlight and Torchlight II, is… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Adisa aims to connect online shoppers with artisans in Africa

Many students pick a college in a snowy setting because they love winter sports. Sabastian Mugazambi and Claire Tagoe chose… Read More

Wall Street Journal analysis picks 3 likely front-runners for Amazon HQ2

Dallas, Boston, and Washington D.C. have the best chances of landing Amazon’s second corporate headquarters, according to a new analysis… Read More

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich hears your cloud lock-in concerns, but it’s complicated

As the technology leader for the second-place cloud computing vendor, Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich has a keen interest in finding ways… Read More

Seattle head tax on top businesses fails narrowly but several lawmakers want to revive it next year

A proposal that would have taxed Seattle businesses earning more than $10 million in gross annual receipts was narrowly voted down… Read More

Cards Against Humanity’s latest holiday stunt: Stop Trump’s border wall and more surprises for $15

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … to send a few bucks to the irreverent folks at Cards… Read More

Microsoft reports modest diversity gains, boosted by LinkedIn workforce and hiring initiatives

Microsoft says it’s seeing small but across-the-board increases in the number of women and racial and ethnic minorities working at… Read More

WTIA’s Apprenti program is turning out skilled tech workers by the dozens, with no tuition costs

Roscoe Bass could easily have been passed over by the technology industry. “I don’t have much history in tech,” said… Read More

The startup community is seriously sweating a stock option provision of the Senate tax bill

Update: The Senate removed the provision that would have taxed stock options at vesting, rather than exercising, in a revised version… Read More

‘Salesforce of pot’ CRM software startup Baker acquires Seattle-based Grassworks Digital

Denver-based Baker, a 3-year-old startup that develops marketing software for marijuana dispensaries, today announced that it has acquired Grassworks Digital,… Read More