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Articles from 2017

Exclusive: Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push

Shwetak Patel has struck again. The University of Washington computer scientist has sold his newest Seattle startup company, Senosis Health, to Google,… Read More

Solar viewing glasses

Amazon hands out refunds for solar eclipse glasses that lack NASA’s approval

Amazon says it’s giving customers refunds for solar viewing glasses and filters that aren’t covered by the American Astronomical Society’s… Read More

Bill Gates on Instagram

Bill Gates joins Instagram to share photos from his adventures, starting in Tanzania

Bill Gates already does a good job of blogging about his adventures around the world through his Gates Notes website,… Read More

Vermouth takes on Yelp with new friend-based review app, with support from hoops star Sue Bird

Using a traditional review app like Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor can be helpful for those looking to find more information… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 6, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 6, 2017. Read More

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping… Read More

Exclusive! The inside story of Comic-Con’s most coveted collectibles

Several years before I became a regular attendee of San Diego Comic-Con, I asked my friend to pick up a… Read More

Startup Spotlight: KLIK Boks wireless presentation connector is designed to save time in meetings

Throughout his 20-year career developing and launching products for professional sound systems, Costa Lakoumentas constantly found himself impeded by a simple technical… Read More

How canned fish convinced RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser to ignore conventional wisdom and invest in a new Seattle restaurant

Rob Glaser is well aware that restaurants make for risky investments. “There’s two arguments,” he told GeekWire. “One, they have… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: Disney and Facebook vs. Netflix, Dota 2 letdown, and Shake Shack meets Amazon

What’s your go-to streaming service? Netflix still reigns supreme when it comes to watching shows online, but Hulu, Amazon and… Read More

Dota 2 AI

Elon Musk hails Dota 2 bot’s victory at The International, with OpenAI and Microsoft

The Dota 2 esports tournament in Seattle, known as The International, demonstrates how video games have become hugely popular team… Read More

SEC filing reveals new details on Snap’s acquisition of location analytics startup Placed

Placed, a Seattle startup that was acquired by social media and sunglasses vendor Snap earlier this year, went for $135.1… Read More

Report: Amazon looking at processed food tech that makes tasty meals with no need for refrigeration

Amazon is reportedly testing emerging food technology originally developed for the U.S. military that would allow it to sell complete… Read More

Skye Gilbert

Geek of the Week: Skye Gilbert takes PATH toward health equity — with side trips to mountain peaks

Skye Gilbert has been on a journey for years in search of answers to complex societal questions. At PATH, the… Read More

Talk about a virus: UW researchers prove it’s possible to take over a computer with DNA malware

Researchers at the University of Washington have shown that it is possible to take over a computer using malware inserted… Read More

Lessons from Togo: What F5’s new CEO learned about business and life growing up in Africa

Francois Locoh-Donou knows what it is like to be an outsider. The son of a black father and a white… Read More

Researchers spy on marine energy machines using data analysis and a raft packed with ocean monitors

In the basement of a nearly century-old, Gothic building on the University of Washington campus, engineers are conducting research essential… Read More

Working Geek: Amazon manager MaryBeth Pecha and colleagues create card game to break down gender barriers

During nearly a decade working in finance and accounting, MaryBeth Pecha experienced the challenges that come from gender inequity at… Read More

Tech Moves: Amperity adds CFO as it prepares to launch; Seattle Times gets new VP of technology; and more

Amperity — a stealth-mode, AI-fueled marketing startup led by two Seattle startup veterans — has piqued the curiosity of many since GeekWire first… Read More

Matt Bell and Ethan Stowell

A look inside The Shop, the new hangout for car geeks rolled out by Seattle tech and restaurant vets

Matt Bell and Ethan Stowell did their best “Dumb and Dumber” impersonation while seated on a scooter in front of… Read More

Insitu ScanEagle drone

Boeing drone subsidiary Insitu joins new partnership to track wildfires day and night

There’s new cause for hope in the fight against wildfires, and it involves Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary that’s headquartered in Bingen,… Read More

Korrio youth sports software startup acquired by TeamSnap

Korrio, a Seattle youth sports software startup founded in 2009 by former Isilon Systems and F5 Networks executive Steve Goldman,… Read More

T. rex skull

Burke Museum lifts the curtain on T. rex skull – and you can watch the experts work

The only Tyrannosaurus rex skull to go on public display in Washington state is getting its unveiling at Seattle’s Burke… Read More

How Strideline inked an NFL licensing deal and aims to be the ‘fastest athletic apparel company’

SoftBank sparked headlines in the technology world this week as the tech giant prepares to invest $1 billion into online… Read More

Transgender ex-employee sues Amazon, alleging ‘unrelenting discrimination and harassment’ in Kentucky warehouse

Amazon is being sued by the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund on behalf of a transgender woman and her… Read More

Amazon looks to challenge Ticketmaster, reportedly in talks with U.S. venue owners

Another day, another new business vertical Amazon is aiming to disrupt. The Seattle tech giant is looking to partner with… Read More

Podcast

Tech meets politics: WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler on the economy, diversity, immigration and more

This week on the GeekWire podcast, we explore the dynamic, high-stakes and often controversial intersection of technology, public policy and… Read More

Snapchat parent Snap posts $443M net loss in 2nd quarter as public company, stock slumps 13%

Snapchat parent Snap posted a net loss of $443 million in its second quarter as a public company, sending its stock… Read More

Fred Hutch unveils new research center aimed at eliminating cancers caused by infections

Cancer often seems to strike out of the blue, without warning or reason and often without a clear cause. But… Read More

WSDOT map

Seattle area’s weekend traffic could be a mess, so WSDOT turns to map and Mariner Moose for help

Rather than shake your fists at Seattle-area traffic these days, perhaps it’s best to just relax and … smile. Clearly… Read More

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