Articles from 2017 – Page 43 of 175

Startup Spotlight: Twine uses Slack and Alexa to make video conferencing ‘magical’

Boulder entrepreneurs Anthony Claudia and Andrew Hahn made a name for themselves by developing an app that allows professionals to… Read More

Amazon angst dominates Seattle Chamber annual meeting as city leaders make longshot bid for HQ2

A cloud hung over the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s 135th meeting on an otherwise unseasonably sunny Thursday in Seattle… Read More

Northern lights provide a glowing auroral sendoff to Seattle’s summer weather

Seattle’s final fling with hot weather featured a celestial fireworks show on Wednesday night, in the form of an auroral… Read More

EchoNous announces $35M in new funding for mini, AI-driven ultrasound devices

EchoNous — a company based in Redmond, Wash., working to develop next-generation ultrasound devices — announced Thursday that it has received… Read More

Steve Ballmer’s passion for basketball detailed in story about his days coaching third graders

Steve Ballmer has established himself as a man who is as passionate about basketball today as he was about software… Read More

Tech Moves: Washington state CIO steps down to join nonprofit; Remitly adds VP of global business; and more

Michael Cockrill, Washington state’s chief information officer and director of the WaTech agency, is leaving the role after nearly five… Read More

What happened after Satya Nadella told Microsoft’s execs to ‘find the rose petals in the field of sh*t’

In one passage of his new book, Hit Refresh, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tells the story of his response to… Read More

With a focus on stability and security, Kubernetes 1.8 is ready for container management

The latest version of Kubernetes shows that the white-hot container-orchestration technology is increasingly focused on making it sure the core… Read More

Report: Retailers outside the U.S. need to assume ‘Amazon is coming for them’

In large neon letters a couple stories above street level in its Day 1 office tower in Seattle, Amazon’s message… Read More

Amazon’s first NFL live stream tonight: How to watch, what to expect

RELATED: Amazon’s first NFL live stream overcomes early glitches and long weather delay Amazon will live stream the first of… Read More

One Eastern Washington city’s unlikely play for Amazon’s second North American headquarters

Spokane is determined not to sit on the bench while other cities duke it out for Amazon’s second corporate headquarters.… Read More

GeekWire Summit: Get your tickets today, late-bird pricing starts next week

The GeekWire Summit is just around the corner, and we’ve got an amazing lineup of speakers, parties and other fun… Read More

Watch Steven Spielberg shock Seattle Symphony crowd with guest conductor John Williams

UPDATED below with more background and additional video of Spielberg. Seattle’s Benaroya Hall was already experiencing a treat Wednesday night… Read More

Portland’s Stackery releases management console for aspiring serverless developers

Serverless development is still a new concept among mainstream software developers, many of whom are still wrapping their heads around… Read More

How Bill Gates used his ‘favorite chart of all time’ to battle Trump’s proposed foreign aid cuts

As any geek will tell you, nothing beats a good chart — and as the founder of Microsoft and one… Read More

Commentary: A half-dozen implications for Seattle and other cities from Amazon’s HQ2 RFP

[Editor’s Note: This guest commentary by Tren Griffin highlights six implications from Amazon’s request for proposals for a second headquarters. ] 1.… Read More

Russia gets on board with NASA to look into Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit

The space station band is getting back together again: Russia and NASA today signed a joint statement voicing support for… Read More

Melinda Gates says the modern workplace isn’t suitable for America’s modern workforce

Her own husband was a self-professed workaholic in his early days at Microsoft, but in a new essay on LinkedIn,… Read More

The unassuming ambition of Bob Ferguson, one of President Trump’s most successful adversaries

When the history books get around to Donald Trump, his unlikely rise to power will receive plenty of ink —… Read More

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel just made an announcement about growth that you’d never hear in Seattle

Seattle may hold first place when it comes to the number of cranes dotting the skyline, but you aren’t likely… Read More

Super Bowl? Bah! Study rates total solar eclipse as America’s most watched event

More than 215 million American adults, representing almost 88 percent of the U.S. population over 18, watched August’s solar eclipse… Read More

Is there an Echo in here? Yes, several! Here’s everything Amazon announced today

Amazon just put out a flurry of new Alexa-powered devices and services, as the company continues to find new ways… Read More

Seattle Children’s licenses gene-editing therapy to Casebia Therapeutics and will partner on further research

The Seattle Children’s Research Institute announced Wednesday that it has licensed a new gene therapy technology to Cambridge, Mass.,-based biotech company… Read More

No YouTube for Echo Spot: Google’s exit also extends to Amazon’s newest touch-screen device

Think of Amazon’s new Echo Spot, a $130 clock-style device unveiled by the tech giant today, as a scaled-down Echo… Read More

Hey, Odessa, does the new Amazon Echo look a bit like that one from ‘Saturday Night Live’?

The revamped Echo from Amazon, unveiled Wednesday in Seattle, comes with improved sound, a lower price and a new design.… Read More

USAmazon! Report says that the tech giant created more jobs last year than 46 states

Every few days, it seems, a new Amazon announcement heralds the creation of 1,000 jobs here or 2,000 jobs there… Read More

5,000 people are working to make Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa smarter, with more to come

Amazon said Wednesday at an event unveiling the next generation Echo device that it has the equivalent of a small town… Read More

Kids, a dog and screen time: Magazine gets inside look at Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s life at home

Anu Nadella, wife of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, calls the vibe in their Seattle-area home “extreme controlled chaos.” Despite the… Read More

Bill Gates calls for more data, foreign aid for global health work amid talks of huge U.S. spending cuts

As federal leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to propose a slate of tax and spending cuts Wednesday, hundreds of experts… Read More

Europe’s Virgo detector picks up its first gravitational wave and nails down locale

Astronomers have detected their fourth gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes, but this one marks a new… Read More