Cray teams up with Microsoft to offer Azure customers new supercomputing options Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to… Read More
T-Mobile adds another 1.3M customers, avoids Sprint merger questions by skipping quarterly call T-Mobile US added another 1.3 million new customers in the third quarter, its 18th straight period with more than 1… Read More
TableSafe raising cash, lands important global certification to transform paying restaurant bills TableSafe has raised close to $8 million and received a key certification as it seeks to transform how diners pay… Read More
Full video: Inside the payments industry with Stripe co-founder John Collison at the GeekWire Summit They may not know it, but anyone who has backed a company on Kickstarter or taken a Lyft is engaging… Read More
Podcast Public radio’s digital moment: Smartphones, streaming, and the future of listening Public radio and digital tech are having a moment. Not only has National Public Radio listenership hit an all-time high, NPR… Read More
Hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico submits bid for Amazon HQ2 Even Puerto Rico is making a bid for Amazon HQ2. Embed from Getty Images The U.S. territory that is still… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 15, 2017 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 15, 2017. Read More
Beer lovers, take note: University of Washington lab brews up a new way to make paper There were pretzels and there was a guy dressed in lederhosen. But the only sign of beer at this Oktoberfest… Read More
5 things no one tells you about starting a startup [This guest commentary is by Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy.] There are things that I wish I had… Read More
The art of note-taking: How this GeekWire Summit artist turns conversations into inspiring visual maps Note-taking can be a mundane and repetitive process that doesn’t always help inspire innovative new ideas. But that all changes… Read More
Working Geek: The surprising stress-reliever that helps Fjuri co-founder Paulo Resende unplug In February, Paulo Resende left a 15-year career at Microsoft to start a marketing firm helping Fortune 500 companies improve… Read More
Gourmet tech: Nathan Myhrvold’s ‘Modernist Bread’ finds new twists in one of the oldest foods BELLEVUE, Wash. — Did you ever try inflating bread dough with a bicycle pump? Gourmet technologist Nathan Myhrvold did — and after thumbing… Read More
‘Halo Wars 2’ shoots for a Grammy, and composers score with music made for video games It’s safe to say, film fans, that a large part of the enjoyment derived from watching movies comes from listening… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek: Amazon’s HQ2 deadline arrives, renting sports jerseys, and new signs of a tech bubble Cities around the continent submitted their bids for Amazon’s HQ2 this week, bringing the frenzy of speculation about the company’s… Read More
Satellite readings track how climate change is thinning out mountain glaciers Elevation readings captured by satellites confirm that glaciers in the western United States are fading away at a worrisome rate.… Read More
News Brief That’s a wrap! NASA spacewalkers install new HD video camera on space station NASA astronauts finished up this month’s trio of spacewalks with a nearly seven-hour-long outing today — highlighted by the installation of… Read More
‘Mr. Robot’ Rewind: Backdooring a monitor for FBI surveillance in Episode Two [Spoiler Alert] Yarr, me matey. There be spoilers ahead! Consider yourself warned. Seriously though, this article describes the latest Mr.… Read More
LinkedIn CEO says they’re ‘open to the idea’ of original video content Netflix. Hulu. Amazon Video. LinkedIn? The Microsoft-owned business social network, best known for displaying the career histories of tens of… Read More
Washington state’s life sciences industry has a talent crisis — and the tech sector is partly to blame Washington State’s life sciences sector has historically been strong, even among the best in the nation. Industries like medicine, research… Read More
HQ who? For HQ2.com and @HQ2, it’s business as usual — and no sign of Amazon headquarters frenzy This week we learned that if you type relentless.com into a browser window, you get a little better understanding of… Read More
Geek of the Week: With Microsoft, Spotify and Adobe behind him, Kevin Goldsmith finds a home again in Seattle at Avvo Seattle’s evolving tech landscape can catch you by surprise, especially if you leave the city for a couple years and… Read More
Testing a $20/month sports jersey rental service; Microsoft teams up with Packers; and more from the week in sports tech [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
With rains pounding Seattle, here’s the winter plan for the neon shared bikes scattered across the city After a remarkably dry summer, Seattle is finally bracing for the long months of wet weather ahead. The series of… Read More
Service dog rides shotgun in an Uber and woman’s photo on Twitter is worth a 5-star rating Can all Ubers come with dogs from now on, please? A woman’s tweet showing a service dog riding shotgun in… Read More
Portland’s SureID sells fingerprinting services business to Sterling Talent, plans to rebrand After losing a federal contract earlier this year, SureID is now searching for a new identify, selling its namesake technology… Read More
Report: Tech titans are forming a coalition to lobby Congress on behalf of ‘Dreamers’ Big tech companies are forming a coalition to pressure Congress to provide a path to permanent residency for illegal immigrants… Read More
New drone video takes viewers through 2 miles of Seattle tunnel, from Space Needle to stadiums Months after Bertha the Seattle tunnel machine stopped churning beneath the city, work continues on the SR 99 tunnel that… Read More
Seattle mayor’s love letter to Amazon: ‘We have no intention of swiping left on you’ Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess is expressing the city’s commitment to Amazon with a Tinder joke. “With 40,000 Amazon employees in… Read More
Microsoft’s Cortana finally gets her own speaker: Hands-on with the $199 Harman Kardon Invoke Alexa has a bunch of them. Siri is getting one. So why not Cortana, too? A new smart speaker from… Read More
Amazon’s home region unveils 522-page bid for its second headquarters, citing ‘historic partnership’ The region where Amazon established its first headquarters just unveiled a pitch to host its second headquarters, as well. “Amazon… Read More
