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Articles from 2017

Moon base

NASA could go back to the future and revive moon base plans from a decade ago

In the wake of the National Space Council’s first meeting, NASA says it has been told to draw up plans… Read More

Tacoma, Wash., officially announces Amazon HQ2 bid

Seattle’s neighbor to the south, Tacoma, Wash., formally announced its plans to respond to Amazon’s second headquarters request for proposals… Read More

‘Pop!’ figure maker Funko files for IPO, seeking to raise up to $100M

Funko, the Everett, Wash. company behind the popular vinyl Pop! figures, today filed paperwork for an initial public offering, with… Read More

Report: Amazon seriously considering entering the pharmacy market, selling drugs online

Amazon has been eyeing the healthcare space for years now, but according to a new report from CNBC, the company… Read More

Behind-the-scenes with NFL sideline technology: Microsoft and Bose power team communication

Much like how technology has changed the way you communicate with friends, family, and co-workers, it has also revolutionized how… Read More

Barry Aaronson

Geek of the Week: Virginia Mason’s Barry Aaronson on the ‘sexy’ work he does in clinical informatics

Like many of our Geeks of the Week, Barry Aaronson was drawn to Seattle by the nearby nature and mountains.… Read More

Facebook hackathon applies machine learning to Seattle data to solve civic challenges

The city of Seattle is top notch when it comes to releasing data about everything from traffic to education to… Read More

7 crazy stunts from cities vying for Amazon’s second North American headquarters

With more than 100 contestants in the Great Amazon HQ2 Beauty Pageant, it takes a little more than good looks… Read More

Stranger Things

Streaming ratings are a secret, but new report reveals most popular Netflix, Amazon, Hulu shows

The big streaming television services — Netflix, Amazon, Hulu — don’t share their ratings like traditional broadcast outlets do, but… Read More

Ballard home

How hot is Seattle’s real estate market? This boarded up house with no bedrooms is $595K

We’ve seen plenty of houses with actual windows and bedrooms sell for way more than they’re worth in the real… Read More

Study: Amazon Echo owners love the iPhone, while Google Home keeps it in the Android family

Amazon Echo owners are more likely to be iPhone and iPad fans, while owners of the Google Home smart speaker… Read More

Elon Musk’s tweets about a solar rescue plan spark interest from Puerto Rico

A Twitter conversation about beefing up Puerto Rico’s hurricane-hit power grid with solar power and heavy-duty batteries is turning into… Read More

Startup Week session

Entrepreneurs swarm to get in on the idea factories at Intellectual Ventures and AI2

Less than two months after Intellectual Ventures and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence put out the call for entrepreneurs,… Read More

Podcast

Hey, obsessed pop culture fan: You may have something museums want

Those science-fiction film lobby cards you rescued from the back of a movie theater about to shutter? That dusty prop… Read More

News Brief

Spacewalkers replace a broken hand on International Space Station’s robotic arm

A pair of NASA spacewalkers replaced a faulty gripper on the end of the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robotic arm… Read More

Costco debuts new grocery delivery service and expands partnership with Instacart

Costco is making it easier for customers to buy groceries online and have them delivered to a doorstep. The Issaquah,… Read More

Smith Tower

End of a long ride: Seattle’s historic Smith Tower to automate elevators after 103 years of manual operation

For all the change that has come to Seattle over the years, and especially during the city’s transformative tech boom,… Read More

Seattle’s Onvia snapped up by enterprise software vendor Deltek for $70 million

Onvia, which provides business intelligence services to companies looking to sell Uncle Sam their technology, was acquired Thursday by Deltek… Read More

Seattle region unveils pitch to keep Amazon HQ2 close to home — and it doesn’t include any locations in Seattle

Executives from King and Snohomish County revealed details of their plan to convince Amazon to locate its second North American… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up: First take on the Google Pixel 2, Pixelbook laptop, Clips camera and more

The holiday season is just around the corner, and all the biggest tech companies are lining up to be at… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa can now reserve a car2go, the newest of the digital assistant’s 25K skills

Owners of an Amazon Echo or other Alexa-powered device can now tell Amazon’s digital brain to reserve a car2go vehicle.… Read More

Vice President Mike Pence at National Space Council meeting

National Space Council hears calls for moon trips and stronger space defense

The Trump administration plans to send astronauts and robots back to the moon in as little as five years’ time,… Read More

Report: The Pentagon plans to increase its use of cloud computing in security push

After his recent trip to the West Coast to check out how cloud tech companies are fending off cybersecurity attacks,… Read More

GeekWire Summit: Full agenda released, limited tickets available

We’re just four days away from the GeekWire Summit, which will bring together more than 800 leaders to explore what’s… Read More

Amazon denies plans to replace UPS and FedEx as report points to bigger delivery ambitions

Amazon is testing an expansion of its delivery operations, including overseeing pickup and delivery of items from third-party seller warehouses… Read More

We prepared this 6-page memo for our GeekWire Summit session with Amazon’s Jeff Wilke — please read it silently to yourselves

One of Amazon’s traditions is the “6-pager,” a detailed memo read silently at the outset of an internal meeting to… Read More

Former Tableau sales chief Kelly Wright joins Amperity board as startup emerges from stealth mode

Amperity, an AI-fueled marketing startup that recently launched from stealth mode and announced a partnership with Microsoft, is adding some horsepower to… Read More

Zillow 3D Home

Zillow creates new ‘3D Home’ feature with special photo app to bring 360-degree tours to listings

With house hunters increasingly looking for the easiest and fastest way to tour a home they might be interested in… Read More

Mark Vadon

Real estate startup FlyHomes raises $4M round led by Blue Nile and Zulily co-founder Mark Vadon

In its first year, real estate startup FlyHomes avoided raising outside capital by attracting a customer base of homebuyers with perks like… Read More

At long last, Microsoft is releasing its Edge browser for iPhone and Android

Microsoft Edge, the default web browser for Windows 10, will be available as a preview for iPhone starting today and… Read More

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