Articles from 2017 – Page 69 of 175

Amazon job listing suggests Kindle team is working on virtual and augmented reality

Is Amazon’s Kindle team working on virtual and augmented reality features? That’s what The Digital Reader news site speculates based on… Read More

IBM and Sony breakthrough on tape storage density could lower cold storage costs again

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we used to store all our data on magnetic tape. Yet tape storage is… Read More

PayPal partners with Microsoft’s Skype, lets users send money to each other via messaging app

Skype users can now send money to one another thanks to a new partnership with PayPal. Called “Send Money,” the… Read More

Seattle’s KEXP releases long-awaited iOS app overhaul, with help from volunteer developers

When KEXP moved into a new home at Seattle Center last year, the popular independent radio station established a physical… Read More

Khosla Ventures leads $15M round in Naveen Jain’s Viome wellness startup, gets board seat

Khosla Ventures, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm whose interests range from biofuels to spaceflight, was revealed today as… Read More

Leader of Microsoft Mixer streaming service wants Apple to enable live screen broadcasts in iOS 11

Apple hinted at the possibility of live screen broadcasting from the iPhone and iPad in July with the appearance of… Read More

Former U.S. attorney Jenny Durkan takes big lead in Seattle mayoral primary

In Seattle’s mayoral race, former U.S. attorney Jenny Durkan looks highly likely to advance based on early results of Tuesday’s… Read More

Virgin Orbit’s ‘Cosmic Girl’ 747 jet passes tests and moves closer to rocket launches

Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet, christened “Cosmic Girl,” is back at its home base in Long Beach, Calif.,… Read More

Seattle science educator Dennis Schatz celebrates his asteroid – and the eclipse

The Pacific Science Center’s senior adviser, Dennis Schatz, has achieved a kind of fame that so far has eluded the… Read More

Judge tosses U.S. Chamber lawsuit over Seattle’s Uber union law, but dispute isn’t over yet

Seattle’s first-of-its-kind unionization law for drivers of services like Uber and Lyft got a big win in court Tuesday when… Read More

Boeing 747s ordered by bankrupt Russian airline may end up as Air Force One jets

Two Boeing 747-8 jets that were given up before delivery by Russia’s bankrupt Transaero Airlines could well end up as… Read More

Podcast

What these teen tech entrepreneurs think about Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AI, the cloud and more

Michael Royzen and Atul Ajoy have several things in common, besides being high-school students in the Seattle region. They’re both… Read More

Report: Amazon expands Bay Area footprint with 180K square-foot lease in downtown San Francisco

Seattle isn’t the only city where Amazon is scooping up office space left and right. The tech giant just inked… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ startup advice, as told by ‘The Onion’: Hire well, value customers, and ‘realize someday I will utterly crush you’

For startups, it’s becoming increasingly impossible to avoid competing with Amazon as the company branches out into everything from real… Read More

Surprise: iPad sales up 15% as Apple’s results beat expectations

Apple this afternoon reported iPad sales of more than 11.4 million units for the quarter ended July 1, a 15… Read More

Catching up with former Microsoft exec and Seattle Storm co-owner Lisa Brummel

Lisa Brummel may have retired after 25 years at Microsoft, but the former executive is still certainly keeping busy. GeekWire… Read More

Amazon quietly starts using Stripe to process some e-commerce transactions

Amazon has quietly partnered with Stripe, allowing it to process a “large, though undisclosed, portion” of the e-commerce giant’s transactions,… Read More

Gov. Jay Inslee: Washington state is the center of the casual gaming universe

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee kicked off the Casual Connect gaming convention Tuesday, pitching the state as the center of casual… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Chinese partner is telling cloud customers in China that VPNs are not allowed

In another example of how tech companies are forced to navigate tricky waters in order to operate in China, Amazon… Read More

Boeing’s newly created avionics unit marks a reversal of old-school outsourcing trend

The Boeing Co. is creating an avionics unit that will build the kinds of electronics and aircraft control systems now… Read More

New Bitcoin regulations shake up Washington state’s cryptocurrency industry

Bitcoin has been gradually shedding its reputation as a fringe investment, as its value zig-zags into the stratosphere, and it… Read More

Inspired by company hackathon, Microsoft to add eye-tracking support for Windows 10

What started as a request from Steve Gleason at Microsoft’s internal hackathon has turned into a new Windows 10 feature… Read More

Early Redfin investor challenges Silicon Valley sexism, applies ‘Glenn assessment’ when evaluating CEOs

When Emily Melton, a partner at venture capital firm DFJ, signed onto the board of Redfin in 2007 as part… Read More

Amazon adds Echo pairing integration to Fire TV for hands-free voice control

Fire TV owners can now control the streaming device without touching a remote. Amazon today rolled out a new feature… Read More

Bill Gates invests in veggie burger that ‘bleeds’ like beef to feed the masses and save the planet

Bill Gates became the world’s richest man by tackling seemingly impossible problems — so it should come as no surprise… Read More

Microsoft targets Google and Apple in schools with ‘Surface Plus’ hardware subscription program

Microsoft is launching a new subscription program for buying Surface computers and tablets in much the same way that many… Read More

Connecting the cloud: Azuqua raises $10.8M to help companies integrate and manage cloud apps

We’re at the point where a lot companies need a cloud service to manage all their cloud services, and Seattle’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Carbon Black, Galvanize CEO shifts to new role, and more

Fresh off of stints as an executive for Microsoft and Dropbox, Thomas Hansen is joining cyber security firm Carbon Black.… Read More

Gas delivery startup Booster Fuels raises $20M, reveals 300 large employers as customers

Getting gas delivered to your car while you’re at the office is turning out to be a pretty nice perk… Read More

Explore Mars like an astronaut: Mars 2030 VR experience lifts off

Mars 2030, a virtual reality experience that simulates living and working on the Red Planet, launched today for the HTC… Read More