Articles from 2017 – Page 28 of 175

Amazon Alexa chief: Saturday Night Live spoof of Echo speaker is actually ‘kind of spot on’

When Saturday Night Live spoofed Amazon’s Echo smart speaker with a version for the “Greatest Generation,” it turns out they… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: Is Amazon’s in-home delivery creepy or convenient?

At this point, we’re used to Amazon coming out with some off-the-wall ideas, from its wacky $200 smart fashion assistant… Read More

Nancy Pelosi says ‘this may be our moment’ to crack down on sexual harassment

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi believes the deluge of sexual harassment stories making daily headlines can be harnessed for reform… Read More

‘These are my people!’ Bulletproof’s brain-boosting butter coffee comes to the heart of Amazonia

In 2017, it’s still possible in coffee-saturated Seattle to open a coffee shop to great fanfare. Bulletproof, the Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More

‘Mr. Robot’ Rewind: Booby-Trapping Femtocells from the Forest in Episode 3

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Alibaba co-founder buys part of NBA team, SeatGeek and Facebook ink partnership, and more sports tech news from this week

[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every… Read More

Geek of the Week: We crunched the numbers, and data scientist Alice Zhao is worth getting to know

It doesn’t take a data scientist to figure out that Seattle is the place to be. But a data scientist… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Play Impossible’s connected gameballs make a fun activity even better

Is it possible to improve upon the simple pleasure of tossing a ball around? A Seattle startup called Play Impossible… Read More

Amazon stock surges 13% after earnings report, making Jeff Bezos the world’s richest again

Amazon stock is soaring Friday morning after crushing earnings expectations and disclosing that it now employs more than 540,000 people… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Lunch delivery service Peach seeks developer to ‘feed the masses’ with delightful code

A few years ago, some hungry programmers had a wish: an easier way to order lunch. They thought it was… Read More

Report: Amazon gets wholesale pharmacy licenses amid speculation of prescription drug push

Amazon is getting closer to jumping into the prescription drug business. The latest evidence comes in the form of a… Read More

Stephen ‘Stepto’ Toulouse, 1972-2017: Microsoft mainstay handled tough jobs with authority, humor

Stephen Toulouse, a former longtime Microsoft employee who became known to gamers around the world as the tough but good-natured… Read More

Retail startup specializing in custom-tailored suits chooses Seattle, a land of flannel and rain parkas

Walk the streets of Seattle, and you’ll quickly realize that it’s not a town known for fashion. Flannels, hoodies and… Read More

Seattle’s housing market is growing twice as fast as San Francisco’s — signaling a tech exodus

Seattle’s housing market is seeing the fastest appreciation in home values in the country, according to the latest data from… Read More

On-demand trucking startup Convoy parts ways with 3 business leaders, adds new execs

Three business leaders have exited Seattle-based Convoy in recent weeks even as the heavily funded on-demand trucking startup has added new… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Can a machine learn to laugh? Botnik crosses a comedian with AI to find out

If the game Cards Against Humanity and those refrigerator poetry magnets had a digital baby bestowed with machine learning, it… Read More

Amazon reports $1.3B in physical store sales, breaking out brick-and-mortar business for first time, still dwarfed by $26.4B online sales

A new section of Amazon’s quarterly earnings report reflects the company’s growing ambitions for physical retail. RELATED: Amazon crushes profit… Read More

Alphabet stock on the rise as Google parent beats Wall Street expectations with $27.7B in revenue

Shares in Google parent company Alphabet are up after the company exceeded Wall Street expectations in the third quarter. Alphabet… Read More

Seattle Genetics beats earnings expectations as lead drug Adcetris finds market success

Seattle Genetics, the maker of cancer drug Adcetris, beat analyst expectations by a noticeable margin in its third-quarter earnings, reported… Read More

Expedia posts 15% Q3 revenue increase in first quarter since CEO departed for Uber

Expedia posted $2.97 billion in revenue, a 15 percent increase over the same time last year in its third-quarter earnings report… Read More

Amazon tops 540K employees after swallowing Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

Amazon added a whopping 159,500 employees in the last quarter, pushing its total employment to 541,900 people worldwide, according to… Read More

Amazon Web Services crosses $1B in operating profit as revenue jumps 42 percent to $4.6B

Amazon Web Services continues to grow quite strongly despite its size, and it crossed an interesting milestone during the third… Read More

Microsoft revenue up 12% to $24.5 billion, powered by commercial cloud business

Microsoft posted revenue of $24.5 billion, up 12 percent, and profits of $6.6 billion, or 84 cents per share, exceeding… Read More

Amazon crushes profit expectations, sales rise 34% to $43.7B, stock up 7%

Amazon blew past Wall Street expectations for its third quarter earnings as the company’s stock spiked more than 7 percent… Read More

Microsoft hits its $20 billion commercial cloud revenue run-rate goal ahead of schedule

Three quarters before a self-imposed deadline to achieve $20 billion in annualized revenue from its commercial cloud products and services,… Read More

News Brief

Seattle tech recruiter Greythorn acquired by Vaco

Greythorn, a Seattle-based recruiting firm focused on technology positions has been acquired by national consulting firm Vaco. With the deal,… Read More

Podcast

The inside story of ‘S-Town’: Brian Reed, creator of the hit podcast, on storytelling in the digital age

Podcasts are having a heyday, and perhaps no series showcases the creative scope and impact of the medium as well… Read More

Spot-on or too scary? This New Yorker magazine cover could be a nod to futuristic Seattle

I went to the dentist this morning, which is the place where I like to go every six months so… Read More

Tech Moves: Marchex co-founder named CEO of PacketSled; Haiku Deck co-founder joins Pioneer Square Labs; and more

John Keister, a well-known Seattle area entrepreneur and investor, is now taking the reins at San Diego-based network analytics platform PacketSled.… Read More

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman to climb Mount Everest to raise $175k for cancer research

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman spends most of his time reading and writing about medical innovation. But now, he’s doing a… Read More