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Articles from 2017

Amazon says it will make Prime membership ‘really valuable’ for Whole Foods shoppers

Amazon Prime members can expect to get some deals when they shop at Whole Foods. Jeff Wilke, CEO of Worldwide… Read More

3 investors discuss the most (and least) exciting emerging technologies on their radar

Insurance and machine learning are hot, virtual reality is not, and cryptocurrency is complicated. Those are a few takeaways from… Read More

Inventions We Love: Pillsy, JikoPower and SafKan pitch geeky gadgets to voters at GeekWire Summit

There’s a lot to love about technology in 2017, including one of our favorite segments of the GeekWire Summit: Inventions… Read More

Sorry, HQ2 suitors: Wacky stunts aren’t likely to get Amazon’s attention, says top exec Jeff Wilke

Seattle, don’t take Amazon’s search for a second headquarters personally. The company’s CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke said at… Read More

Heard & overheard: GeekWire Summit 2017, Day 1

Executives, scientists, and politicians say the darnedest things. The casual-yet-focused discussions on stage at the GeekWire Summit led top names… Read More

Christof Koch

Brain scientist Christof Koch maps out a path to merge humans and machines

It may sound like a zombie movie, but Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is studying fresh human brain tissue… Read More

Benchmark Capital partner on suing Uber’s former CEO and replacing him with Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi

After Travis Kalanick resigned from Uber amid a series of sexual harassment and other scandals, investor Benchmark Capital filed an… Read More

How Amazon’s Alexa overcame doubters — even within the project team — to conquer the voice speaker market

Alexa has been a hit, helping Amazon capture an early lead in the voice-activated speaker market through the Echo and… Read More

Facebook Spaces

Mark Zuckerberg apologizes after ‘magical’ Facebook VR tour of hurricane-torn Puerto Rico

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to apologize in the comments of his own post on Tuesday after a demo… Read More

Virtual healthcare startup Carena acquired by Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia

Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia announced Tuesday that it has acquired Carena, a Seattle-based telemedicine startup that builds the technology behind virtual doctor’s… Read More

Bob Ferguson

‘I cannot stand losing’: Washington AG Bob Ferguson on never underestimating Donald Trump

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed 19 lawsuits against the administration of Donald Trump since the president took… Read More

How do you succeed in tech? ExtraHop CEO Arif Kareem thinks you must invest in people

Tech startups tend to break through in their early days with a game-changing product or an irresistible service, but companies… Read More

Gary Gilliland at GeekWire Summit

Future battles against cancer will expand tech frontiers, Fred Hutch’s chief says

The fight against cancer isn’t just about drugs and genetics. It’s also about wearable devices, health-savvy chatbots, machine learning and… Read More

GeekWire Summit Live: WA state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, head of Alexa and Echo devices Toni Reid and more

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson became the central face in the battle against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Longtime… Read More

Environmental group deploys ‘Cup Monster’ to pressure Starbucks to use more sustainable cups

As Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson took the stage this morning to kick off the 2017 GeekWire Summit, a giant structure with bloodshot… Read More

How Amazon’s $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods is a ‘blessing in disguise’ for Instacart

Amazon’s blockbuster deal to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion shocked the foundation of the grocery/retail world, and it… Read More

3rd annual Geeks Give Back campaign aims to raise $1M for the next generation of STEM leaders

Like many places around the world, Washington state has a talent crisis. The state creates thousands of highly skilled jobs… Read More

In the race to get driverless cars on the road, expert warns of the need to pump the brakes — for now

Fully automated cars are looked at by many in the tech community as a near certainty, maybe even in the… Read More

GeekWire Summit Live: Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta on the future of retail and delivery

The grocery and delivery markets are rapidly changing, and Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta — a former supply chain… Read More

Steve Ballmer talks fake news, immigration, and Microsoft in new video

As a major investor in Twitter, the former CEO of Microsoft, and creator of new government data non-profit USAFacts.org, Steve… Read More

Dr. issy Cummings

The GeekWire Summit’s own ‘Top Gun’: Ex-Navy pilot Dr. Missy Cummings on her 4G, inverted dive

Dr. Missy Cummings, who serves as director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University, spoke about the future of… Read More

Microsoft’s SDK for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update now generally available

All developers interested in building apps for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update can now download the software-development kit now… Read More

Starbucks CEO explains how company ties together a physical store experience with digital innovation

Over the past decade, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have gone through a massive disruption as digital tools and the internet change the… Read More

Google and Puppet strike partnership deal designed to ease migration to the cloud

Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their… Read More

Tableau unveils new products to speed up and simplify data visualization at Las Vegas customer conference

Tableau Software is holding its annual customer conference in Las Vegas this week, and the data visualization company showed off… Read More

Bloomberg TV broadcasts live from the GeekWire Summit, showcasing top names in tech

The GeekWire Summit kicks off today, with more than 900 business, tech, media and government leaders joining us to talk… Read More

Microsoft Ventures launches global AI startup competition with top VC firms

In the latest sign of Microsoft’s continued investment in artificial intelligence, Microsoft Ventures announced today that it is teaming up… Read More

New Salesforce IoT Explorer Edition lets marketing automate campaigns generated by IoT data

As the Internet of Things becomes a thing, adopters are generating lots of data that isn’t necessarily making its way… Read More

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Trailer makes a splash, and ticket websites avoid a crash

The Force is clearly with “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The trailer for Episode VIII of the movie saga made… Read More

Podcast

Baidu president calls AI the ‘single most transformative force of our time’

Baidu is known primarily as a search giant in China, but the company, which just opened an office in the… Read More

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