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Articles from 2017

QuoteWizard acquires online insurance site RateElert, expanding its reach and products

Seattle-based insurance comparison startup QuoteWizard has acquired RateElert, an Ann Arbor, Mich. insurance shopping site. QuoteWizard will acquire RateElert’s insurance… Read More

Microsoft to release Surface Pro with LTE Advanced in December, looking to continue recent growth

Microsoft will begin shipping a new version of its Surface Pro tablet with LTE Advanced mobile connectivity for businesses in… Read More

Remitly set to raise massive $115M funding round led by Tencent and Flipkart backer Naspers

Remitly has grown steadily over the past few years, operating a mobile remittance platform in 10 countries and expanding its… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch

Sweet 16! SpaceX sends KoreaSat-5A into orbit and then lands Falcon 9 booster

SpaceX executed its 16th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year today, sending the Koreasat-5A telecommunications satellite into orbit and… Read More

Facebook

Reports: 126M Facebook users saw content from Russian agents around Election Day

Russian government-backed agents created posts that reached about 126 million Facebook users around the Nov. 8 election, according to reports… Read More

Educational robot maker Wonder Workshop raises $41M from Tencent, Madrona and others

Wonder Workshop, which makes robots that teach children computer science concepts, said it has raised $41 million in a Series… Read More

Apptio beats revenue expectations again during its third quarter

Apptio’s third-quarter earnings results showed that the company is still on a path of strong revenue growth and narrowing losses.… Read More

Reports: T-Mobile-Sprint merger crumbling as parent companies disagree on ownership

The long-rumored merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, the nation’s third and fourth largest wireless carriers, is falling apart, according to… Read More

Inrix lays off a ‘handful of people’ as traffic data provider reorganizes

Inrix has laid off a “handful of people” as the traffic data provider reorganizes its company structure. The layoffs, first… Read More

House of Cards

Netflix stops production of new season of ‘House of Cards’ to deal with Kevin Spacey allegations

UPDATE, Oct. 31: Production of Season 6 of the Netflix streaming television hit “House of Cards” has been suspended in… Read More

Watch: Huge great white shark bites underwater camera used in Paul Allen’s FinPrint project

A camera positioned underwater near the Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, with the goal of capturing footage of sharks… Read More

From $16K in the bank to a new life: Startup’s ‘wild ride’ is a riveting tale of near failure and survival

Things were falling apart at Blok24. Fundraising efforts were faltering. The product needed a revamp. And, most frighteningly, the bank… Read More

Amazon Studios expanding to iconic Hollywood location, signaling big ambitions despite executive turmoil

Amazon Studios, the company’s film and TV production arm, said it is moving into the historic Culver Studios, where classics… Read More

Snappr brings on-demand photography service to Seattle; offers 30-minute sessions for $59

There’s a new way to hire a photographer in Seattle. Snappr is expanding outside of California for the first time… Read More

New project from The Linux Foundation hopes to make AI tools more accessible

The Linux Foundation introduced a new project Monday called the Acumos Project, an effort backed by AT&T and India’s Tech… Read More

YouTube TV unveils new app, but no support for Fire TV as Amazon’s spat with Google continues

YouTube is rolling out a standalone app for its new TV service, but people hoping to stream content on Amazon’s… Read More

‘S-Town’ creator: Podcasting is so new, the rules are still being written

Three years ago, Brian Reed read a curious email. It was from a man called John B. McLemore, a listener… Read More

Hamburger emojis

Google gets grilled over its burger emoji and company’s big cheese weighs in on meaty matter

A debate over the proper stacking order of the meat, lettuce, cheese and tomato on the hamburger emoji has reached… Read More

Whole Foods’ plan to hire 6K workers assuages automation anxiety after Amazon acquisition

When Amazon scooped up Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion earlier this year, company representatives insisted they had no immediate… Read More

Survey: Americans don’t trust Big Tech or the government to prevent foreign election interference

On Wednesday, three of the biggest tech companies in the country will testify before Congress on how their products facilitated Russian meddling… Read More

Switch continues to surge, as Nintendo boosts annual sales forecast to 14M consoles

Nintendo beat analysts’ expectations for revenue and operating profit in its latest quarter and boosted the sales forecast for its… Read More

A $100K prize and a step closer to building the ‘Facebook’ of organic farming in Africa

At many points in his life, Cornelius Adewale could have chosen an easier, less risky path. Thankfully he didn’t. Adewale… Read More

Tech news sites quietly rely on this word to create drama in headlines, analysis reveals

GeekWire has quietly performed a detailed analysis of one of the most overused words in tech news. See if you… Read More

The Riveter partners with Poppy to offer on-demand childcare for members of the co-working space

The Riveter is teaming up with another female-focused Seattle startup to make it easier for its members to secure childcare.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Build games to save the planet; A peek into the cutting edge of AI; and more

There are lots of ways to make our lives more sustainable — use less electricity, recycle plastic containers — but how… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

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

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

Diagon Alley

Construction wizard! Seattle man builds a giant Diagon Alley from Harry Potter in his driveway

Up and down the streets of every neighborhood in Seattle, new construction is a familiar sight. But in one driveway… Read More

Don’t call it a veggie burger: We tried the meatless yet ‘meaty’ Impossible Burger

I’ve always had an easy answer when asked what I’d choose for my last meal on this planet: a cheeseburger.… Read More

Full-body workout in 20 minutes: Testing electrical muscle stimulation exercise technology

My butt has never been so sore. It was two days after my first electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) session, during… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates

It’s Bill Gates’ birthday, and as usual, his wife Melinda shared the best picture on Instagram

Throwback photos of Bill Gates are the gift that keeps on giving. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder turned 62 on Saturday… Read More

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