Articles from 2017 – Page 63 of 175

Apple to reportedly spend $1 billion on original programming over the next year

Count Apple among the tech giants paying big bucks to secure original programming. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company… Read More

Amazon shares dip after Trump tweets that company does ‘great damage to tax paying retailers’

Shares of Amazon were down slightly Wednesday morning after President Trump took aim at the Seattle tech giant again on… Read More

Google Lunar XPRIZE teams get more time and more cash incentives for moon shots

The Google Lunar XPRIZE finalists now have $4.75 million more to shoot for with the moon missions they’re planning, and… Read More

New version of Docker Enterprise Edition adds new admin features and support for old reliable mainframes

It’s sometimes hard to believe how many companies are running enterprise applications on technologies first conceived before mass adoption of… Read More

UW gets in on $4.9 million boost for ShakeAlert earthquake warning system

The University of Washington and six other research institutions will benefit from $4.9 million in funding from the U.S. Geological… Read More

Time to pull down Seattle’s Lenin statue? Silicon Valley venture capitalist takes on relic’s place in wake of Charlottesville tragedy

Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood has long been considered one of the city’s more eccentric areas — home to artists and hippies… Read More

Zillow seeks settlement after federal probe into anti-kickback law violations

Zillow Group’s legal team is meeting with federal regulators over the next few weeks, seeking a settlement in the wake… Read More

Sales tech startup Outreach lands new Seattle HQ in former Tableau space with room to grow

Seattle sales software startup Outreach has a new home. Employees at the 200-person company began moving into a new headquarters… Read More

Can’t get technology off your mind? Amazon’s Alexa is no help as she sings about her place in the world

If you were sitting at your desk just wishing you had a new ear worm you couldn’t shake, you should… Read More

Amazon shreds stock values with a whiff of competition: 5 industries feeling the heat from the tech giant

When Amazon so much as twitches in a new direction, Wall Street takes notice. If you’re an investor or executive… Read More

Professional drone racers start new league with six teams and big inaugural event in Everett arena

This isn’t your kid’s Christmas-present drone, floating over the backyard to snap an aerial picture of the family picnic. The… Read More

Bill Gates casts a wider net, asking blog followers to help in the war against mosquitoes and malaria

Bill Gates is once again enlisting the help of his blog followers in his effort to do some philanthropic good.… Read More

Instacart growing faster than expected despite Amazon’s deal to swallow up Whole Foods

When Amazon announced its intention to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in June, it sent shockwaves through the grocery… Read More

Seattle ad tech firm Mixpo acquired by ‘brand-to-local’ marketing company Netsertive

When Mixpo entered into a partnership with Netsertive last year, the two companies had no idea that it would end… Read More

Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing for its high-performance cloud computing expertise

Microsoft acquired Cycle Computing Tuesday, in a deal that should bolster its high-performance computing pitch to current and future Azure… Read More

Amazon’s new ‘Instant Pickup’ service promises items in two minutes or less

Amazon is launching a new service called Instant Pickup, promising to let Prime members retrieve items they’ve ordered online in… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI institute expands startup incubator after successful artificial intelligence spinouts

Paul Allen’s artificial intelligence experts are aiming to generate a new wave of AI startups in Seattle. The Microsoft co-founder’s Allen… Read More

Bill Gates’ stake in Microsoft dips below 2% with $4.6 billion stock gift

Bill Gates made a gift of 64 million Microsoft shares in June, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing… Read More

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns from Trump advisory council over concerns about Charlottesville

The tragic events over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, continue to have an impact on the tech industry, and prominent… Read More

‘How are your tweets feeling?’ Researchers find connection between Twitter users’ emotions and flu outbreaks

Imagine if public health workers could monitor social media to take the emotional temperature of a specific population and use… Read More

After GoDaddy boots Daily Stormer, will other tech companies have to follow suit?

Internet companies have long operated under the principle that they are not responsible for what their users do with their… Read More

New Mexico company licenses innovative solar panel technology from two Washington universities

Groundbreaking solar panel technology developed at two Washington universities has been licensed by a company out of Los Alamos, N.M.,… Read More

FareStart raises $2.6M from five new Seattle restaurants after Amazon kicks in $1M match

Five new Seattle restaurants opened by FareStart in partnership with Amazon attracted enough patrons and community donations over a 25-day… Read More

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to… Read More

Amazon Web Services taps machine learning to tackle security with Macie

The fruits of Amazon Web Services’ acquisition of harvest.ai arrived Monday with the announcement of Macie, a new service that… Read More

SpaceX sends a supercomputer and lots more science experiments to space station

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has sent a robotic Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station with three tons of… Read More

Hulu’s first bet on the cloud goes to Amazon Web Services, joining Netflix on rival’s platform

Hulu, the streaming video service run by a consortium of content companies, is using Amazon Web Services to provide the… Read More

Amazon is shutting down Lovefilm by Post, the DVD service once called the ‘Netflix of Europe’

Today, Amazon is hammering another nail into the coffin of DVDs with the closure of its “Lovefilm by Post” business.… Read More

A bigger risk than North Korea? What OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ bot says about artificial intelligence

Friday at The International, Valve’s big eSports competition in Seattle, the nonprofit OpenAI artificial intelligence research company unveiled a bot that defeated one of the… Read More

IOpipe raises $2.5M from Madrona, NEA, and Underscore to build monitoring tools for serverless computing

One common thread among emerging enterprise technologies is that early adopters can quickly find themselves flying blind, stuck with monitoring… Read More