Articles from 2017 – Page 54 of 175

T-Mobile to offer free Netflix with wireless family plans in exclusive deal with streaming giant

Updated with details from conference call with reporters. T-Mobile will provide free Netflix subscriptions to new and existing T-Mobile One… Read More

Microsoft plans Surface unveiling at fall event in London, looking for its next hardware hit

Microsoft’s Panos Panay, who heads up the Microsoft Surface hardware line, is slated to deliver a keynote address at the… Read More

Cardiac Insight raises $4.5M to speed up sales and production of wearable ECG heartbeat sensor

Kirkland, Wash.-based startup Cardiac Insight has raised an additional $4.5 million to bolster production and distribution of its lightweight disposable… Read More

CapitalOne invests $5M in Snowflake Computing after trying its new data warehouse for Wall Street

CapitalOne liked Snowflake Computing’s new data warehouse product for financial services companies so much that it decided it wanted to… Read More

Univ. of Washington researchers developing smartphone app that can detect concussions

Shwetak Patel and his colleagues at the University of Washington have already figured out how a smartphone can be used… Read More

Boeing claims edge in WTO battle over jet subsidies; Airbus says game isn’t over

An appeals panel for the World Trade Organization has reversed an earlier ruling against an $8.7 billion Washington state tax… Read More

Tech investor Nick Hanauer goes off on Twitter, rips Trump supporters and climate-change deniers

Perhaps all that ash in the air around Seattle on Tuesday was coming from the fire burning inside Nick Hanauer.… Read More

Microsoft: Government will ‘have to go through us’ to deport workers impacted by Trump’s ‘Dreamers’ repeal

Microsoft is taking a hard line on the Trump administration’s plans to end the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, or… Read More

Seattle among top U.S. cities for sellers to get greatest return on investment — $185K in 2016

The problem for homeowners who decide to sell in a hot real estate market like Seattle, is that it turns… Read More

Uber offers discounts to commuters traveling by light rail in Seattle area

Uber, Sound Transit, and Seattle-area cities are partnering to encourage more commuters to use Link light rail in conjunction with… Read More

Amazon is on a roll, as the Treasure Truck will be dispensing deals in five more cities

Amazon’s Treasure Truck just keeps on rolling across the country. The tech giant announced Tuesday with a surprise tweet that… Read More

WatchGate: Red Sox busted over using Apple Watch to steal catcher signs from rival Yankees

The Apple Watch has found itself in the middle of a juicy controversy between baseball’s biggest rivals. Embed from Getty… Read More

WeWork growing in Seattle again with plans to open another location near Amazon campus

Co-working giant WeWork is opening another Seattle location just blocks from Amazon’s brand new headquarters campus in the Denny Triangle… Read More

Seattle Police ditched Twitch, but PAX panel offers 3 ways department could return to stream again

In the midst of the giant PAX West gaming convention in Seattle this past weekend, one panel dedicated its conversation… Read More

Photos: Sounders and Xbox unveil new jersey kits with Forza Motorsport 7 branding

For the third year in a row, Seattle Sounders jerseys will feature a video game. Seattle’s MLS club will don… Read More

Even weather gurus are gobsmacked by Northwest’s wildfires and ash fall

Texas has its floods, Florida has a potentially catastrophic hurricane coming its way, but the Pacific Northwest has its own… Read More

With one eye on Amazon, Walmart plans to develop its own artificial intelligence networks

If artificial intelligence lives up to the hype and becomes the most important aspect of cloud computing over the next… Read More

Tech industry calls for legislative action after Trump administration announces end to ‘Dreamer’ immigration program

The tech industry and the Trump administration are clashing again, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions this morning announced plans to end the Deferred… Read More

No longer just a plumber, Nintendo’s beloved Mario eyes loftier ambitions

The world’s most famous leaping plumber is setting his sights a bit higher when it comes to his career. Gaming… Read More

Bungie CEO calls launch of blockbuster game Destiny 2 ‘a very special moment’

It’s one of the biggest weeks in Bungie history. This Wednesday, Sept. 6, the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming company will launch… Read More

Huawei ups its bet on cloud computing with broader support for Microsoft apps

Huawei’s bid to be a player in China’s cloud computing scene got a little stronger Tuesday with the signing of… Read More

Voyager at 40: ‘The Search for Life in Space’ puts big question on the big screen

What better way to celebrate 40 years of NASA’s interplanetary Voyager mission than with an eye-filling movie that brings the… Read More

Startup vet Kelly Smith departs Starbucks, joins MGM Resorts as chief digital officer

Kelly Smith is ready for another adventure. The longtime Seattle entrepreneur who most recently helped lead Starbucks’ digital expansion across… Read More

Seattle’s StackPointCloud partners with Bitnami for serverless computing on top of Kubernetes

If you want to run one of the most cutting-edge infrastructure setups on the block, StackPointCloud is partnering with Bitnami… Read More

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Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins on the future of PAX, new projects, and his current favorite game console

Penny Arcade co-founder Jerry Holkins sat down with GeekWire this weekend at the PAX West game convention to discuss the… Read More

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Game writers to be honored with Nebula Award in first for professional science fiction and fantasy org

Ever since the success of Valve’s Half-Life nearly 20 years ago, video games of all types have been increasingly expected… Read More

Gates Foundation and PATH wire up health data in Africa using a novel approach

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the global health nonprofit PATH are working on a groundbreaking initiative in Africa… Read More

PAX Panel: eSports has a mental health problem, and the entire industry needs to team up to fix it

Top eSports stars may not end their battles with the same bumps, bruises and breaks as other top-level athletes do,… Read More

Update: Amazon’s AbeBooks rare books and collectibles site back online after 2-day outage

UPDATE: AbeBooks, an Amazon-owned company that offers vintage books, rare collectibles and fine art, is back online as of Sunday… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 27, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 27, 2017. Read More