Articles from 2017 – Page 78 of 175

Microsoft and Puget Sound Energy get OK for clean-energy deal to help power software giant’s campus

A deal allowing Microsoft to directly purchase clean energy to power its Redmond, Wash., headquarters campus has been approved by… Read More

Alder BioPharmaceuticals aims to raise $150M to continue developing migraine prevention drug

Alder BioPharmaceuticals is looking to raise approximately $150 million by selling off stock in order to continue work on a… Read More

Nordstrom website issues frustrate shoppers looking for early access to anniversary sale

Nordstrom promised online shoppers early access to its annual anniversary sale on Thursday, but many folks found a frustrating experience… Read More

Tech Moves: Boeing makes leadership changes to focus on quality; Smartsheet adds founding Salesforce investor to board; and more

Boeing announced a structural reorganization this week to combine its safety, quality and manufacturing processes into one division, bringing several leadership… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Women’s Startup Hackathon, Great American Eclipses, and more

Diversity — or lack thereof — in the tech and startup worlds is a persistent problem. But there are plenty of… Read More

Moz founder Rand Fishkin to step away from day-to-day operations, will remain chairman

More than 16 years after launching Moz, Rand Fishkin is ready for his next adventure. Over the next six-to-nine months,… Read More

Relativity Space CEO provides Congress with a teaser for his stealthy rocket venture

The hush-hush space startup Relativity Space is still in stealth mode, but CEO and co-founder Tim Ellis lifted the veil… Read More

Inspired by treasure hunts in Mexico, DoubleDown co-founder launches new game studio

Finding the inspiration to start a company can happen anywhere, at any time. For Cooper DuBois, it was inside and… Read More

‘Alexa, change the channel’: Amazon Echo speakers can now control some smart TVs

Amazon just released a new capability for its digital brain Alexa that is sure to delight chronic TV remote misplacers.… Read More

Campaign to diversify startup boards launched by Redfin, Madrona, Pioneer Square Labs and others

Real estate technology company Redfin and several prominent tech investment firms will encourage startups in their portfolios to recruit an… Read More

‘Westworld’ and HBO dominate Emmy nominations, but Netflix rides ‘Stranger Things’ to 91 nods

In the race to catch HBO as the dominant force in award-winning television, the streaming service Netflix made up more… Read More

Box UI Elements Content Picker, running on Facebook Workplace. (Box Photo)

Box launches Elements, a tool that lets developers add Box tech to their apps

Box is ready to release the first in a series of embeddable components that software developers can use in their… Read More

Kaplan-owned Dev Bootcamp to shut down, closing Seattle coding school and other sites

Dev Bootcamp, a coding school with six locations around the U.S., including Seattle, will close its doors in December. The… Read More

Report: Amazon acquires UK video game startup, pushing further into gaming

Amazon has acquired GameSparks, a UK company that builds backend tools for developers behind marquee game franchises such as Assassin’s… Read More

Health technology startup BloomAPI raises $2.4M to get medical records off paper

If you change doctors or go to see a specialist, chances are that your medical records will be printed out… Read More

Will HoloLens transform air travelers into characters in a mixed-reality world?

Imagine a world where headset-wearing flight attendants can instantly know how you’re feeling based on a computer analysis of your… Read More

Key question in Redfin IPO: Will it be valued as a tech company or a real estate brokerage?

Is Redfin a real estate brokerage or a tech company? That’s the key question as the Seattle company — originally… Read More

Rover raises $65M round led by Spark Capital as pet-sitting startup aims for international expansion

Typically in today’s technology world, startup founders sit on one side of the room, pitch ideas to investors, and hope… Read More

Element Data raises $3.5M to help companies make decisions with A.I. and machine learning

Element Data is on the path every startup hopes to walk. The company is adding high-level talent quickly; it’s about… Read More

Viewpoint snaps up Dexter & Chaney, its Seattle neighbor in cloud-based construction software

Construction is a booming business in the Pacific Northwest, and two companies that make cloud-based construction software are becoming one,… Read More

Hyperloop One celebrates full-system test for levitating transport in a vacuum tube

Hyperloop One showed off the results of its first full-system test of a magnetically levitating rail vehicle in a vacuum… Read More

Major League Soccer tests video assistant referee during Sounders match; full rollout set for August

VAR made its debut at CenturyLink Field in Seattle this past weekend. VAR, also known as “video assistant referee,” is… Read More

What’s ahead for the historic UW-China tech school in the Seattle region as it prepares for 1st students

This fall, the Global Innovation Exchange will welcome its first student cohort, representing the culmination of close to five years… Read More

Consulting giant Mercer invests in compensation data provider PayScale

Seattle-based compensation software and data provider PayScale announced today that it has received a minority investment from Mercer, a New… Read More

By Jove! Juno orbiter snaps the greatest pictures of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

The long-awaited close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have arrived from NASA’s Juno orbiter, and they’re spectacular. Juno has been… Read More

Amazon, Expedia, Reddit, and other tech giants protest FCC plan to reverse net neutrality rules

Amazon, Expedia, Google, Facebook, and thousands of other tech companies are showing their support for net neutrality as part of… Read More

Americans waste $73 billion per year looking for a parking spot, new INRIX study finds

There are dozens of reasons why driving in Seattle is a pain: The seemingly constant traffic jams, the five-way intersections… Read More

Lock your doors, people: Verizon breach on unsecured AWS server exposes 14M customer records

Storing files on public cloud services is one of the most secure ways to protect your data, so long as… Read More

Prime Day was Amazon’s ‘biggest shopping event’ ever as sales spike 60% from last year

Surprise, surprise: Amazon sold a lot of stuff on Tuesday. The Seattle-based online retailer broke all kinds of records during… Read More

Zillow shares slump as Amazon webpage hints at expansion into real estate referrals

Investors get nervous every time a certain Seattle-based e-commerce giant eyes a new market and this time Zillow is the… Read More