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Articles from 2017

Dick's Drive-In

Dick’s burger chain announces which South Seattle city will be home to its seventh restaurant

Five months after thousands of online voters chose South Seattle over the Eastside as the region where they’d most want… Read More

Seattle cranes

Be careful what you wish for, Amazon suitors, a lot will change with the tech giant in your city

Tap the brakes for a second, North America. Let that sea of red tail lights on the roadways around Seattle… Read More

Microsoft and Facebook team up to give AI developers more flexibility

Building a neural network is hard. Most developers working on artificial intelligence projects are forced to commit early to a… Read More

From Philly to Tulsa, job-hungry cities line up to convince Amazon they’re the best spot for 2nd HQ

Amazon’s shocking announcement that it is looking to build a $5 billion second North American headquarters campus is only a… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch

SpaceX launches Air Force’s secret X-37B space plane as Hurricane Irma nears

SpaceX launched the Air Force’s X-37B robotic space plane on its latest months-long, classified mission today – marking another first for… Read More

Forget fantasy football: This new esports startup backed by NFL team owner Paul Allen pits fans against each other

Esports is a $700 million global industry, and growing rapidly. And while traditional sports fans may scoff at professional video gamers… Read More

Toronto

Six cities Amazon should consider for its second headquarters

Amazon’s surprise announcement Thursday morning that it will begin searching for a second headquarters in North America will send political… Read More

Amazon targets authors and marketers for alleged abuse of Kindle Direct Publishing system

Amazon has filed arbitration demands against several book authors, publishers and marketers, alleging that they abused the Kindle Direct Publishing… Read More

Atlassian hopes to dent Slack’s momentum with Stride, a new group collaboration tool

One nice thing about the rise of design thinking within enterprise software has been the emergence of workplace tools that… Read More

Speedtest

Speed report finds T-Mobile and Xfinity providing fastest mobile and broadband internet in U.S.

Mobile and fixed broadband internet speeds in the U.S. are improving, but not all carriers and providers are created equal… Read More

Amazon

Amazon to build second HQ in North America, seeks proposals from cities for $5B campus with up to 50K jobs, ‘full equal’ to Seattle operations

Amazon plans to build a second headquarters in a North American city to be determined, saying the new $5 billion… Read More

IBM Watson supercomputer

IBM makes a 10-year, $240M investment in artificial intelligence research at MIT

IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment in artificial intelligence research through a new lab it’s creating in partnership… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried on the new world of technology and media

Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire podcast: Ina Fried, the San Francisco-based chief technology correspondent for Axios, a new… Read More

Project Blue telescope

Project Blue tries again with crowdfunding campaign for planet-watching telescope

Project Blue is launching a second try to attract crowdfunding for a space telescope designed to study planets in the… Read More

ISS National Lab mission patch

International Space Station lab’s mission patch goes all in on a Star Wars theme

Factual and fictional worlds collide in the latest mission patch associated with the International Space Station’s role as a U.S.… Read More

Video: T-Mobile COO on new Netflix partnership and what it says about today’s media landscape

T-Mobile’s latest “Un-Carrier” move — adding free Netflix subscriptions to new and existing T-Mobile One family plans — aims to further… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks back multi-state lawsuit over Trump’s ‘Dreamers’ repeal

Three of Washington state’s biggest companies say they won’t stand for President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Child… Read More

The story behind Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s new book, ‘Hit Refresh’

In exactly 20 days, “Hit Refresh,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s new book, hits the shelves. With the first books having just… Read More

This engineer has worked with Gates and Bezos — now he wants to succeed Dave Reichert in Congress

Tola Marts isn’t what you’d expect from a Congressional candidate. The Minnesota native manages a team of engineers at Intellectual… Read More

Facebook

Facebook says $100,000 in ad buys during U.S. election came from fake accounts out of Russia

A new analysis by Facebook into whether Russia tried to interfere with last fall’s U.S. presidential election by purchasing ads… Read More

Solar flare

Red vs. green: Solar flares could power northern lights above our smoky skies

The sun has been acting up this week, and normally that would produce auroral displays bright enough to see in… Read More

Mesosphere adds support for rival Kubernetes in nod to changing tide in container-orchestration market

Mesosphere, after spending a few years focused on building out its own container-orchestration software, now plans to add support for… Read More

Toys R Us

Report: Toys R Us could file for bankruptcy as Amazon continues to lead the charge online

Facing a mountain of debt and increased competition from online (Amazon) and brick-and-mortar (Wal-Mart) retailers, Toys R Us may be… Read More

Tech Moves: Impinj hires Zillow VP to lead IT, LendingRobot CEO exits, and Starbucks names COO

For the past six years, Paul Stephen has held leadership roles in Zillow Group’s corporate technology department so the rest… Read More

Earth at night

Why these scientists argue that we are turning Earth into an alien planet

A trio of scientists has just laid out a new classification scheme for planets that would put Earth into a… Read More

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: Kohl’s to open Amazon showrooms in select stores

Like other department stores, Kohl’s is struggling to compete with online retailers, most notably Amazon. Faced with declining sales, Kohl’s is… Read More

James Bond

Amazon and Apple reportedly in the hunt for James Bond and rights to iconic film franchise

The price tag for 007 could be getting more zeroes thanks to Apple and Amazon reportedly showing interest in distributing… Read More

PATH receives $120M Gates Foundation grant to fuel vaccine development across the globe

Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH announced Wednesday that it has received a $120 million grant from the Bill and Melinda… Read More

Rental home repair marketplace Keepe raises $1.5M to expand to more cities

Finding a good contractor has become easier for homeowners over the years, with proliferation of marketplaces like Porch and HomeAdvisor, but… Read More

Zipwhip lands $22.5M to fuel growth of business text messaging platform

Zipwhip is boosting its ambitions with a big new round of funding. The Seattle startup, which enables texting from business landline… Read More

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