Amazon completes $580M acquisition of Middle East e-commerce giant Souq.com Amazon has completed its purchase of Souq, a 12-year-old e-commerce company sometimes called the Amazon of the Middle East. Amazon paid… Read More
Report: Top Amazon rival Alibaba is about to launch an Echo competitor Alibaba, the China-based e-commerce giant determined to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, is coming out with its answer to the Echo… Read More
Full interview: Bleacher Report founder talks about the future of sports media If you’re a digital publisher and you haven’t embraced mobile and social, get on board. That was one message from… Read More
Microsoft reportedly set to lay off thousands as part of massive sales reorganization Thousands of layoffs are planned to hit Microsoft’s global workforce this week, part of a shakeup of the company’s sales… Read More
Vicis football helmet unboxing: Watch a high school linebacker open his new high-tech head protector It’s not just NFL and NCAA players who will be wearing Vicis’ new football helmet this season — teenagers will… Read More
Bill Gurley reunites with Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff to talk ‘insane curiosity’ and finding good leaders Bill Gurley, the Benchmark venture capitalist who served for 10 years on the board of directors at Zillow Group, reunited… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 25, 2017 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of June 25, 2017. Read More
Seattle investors encouraged by active dialogue on sexual harassment problems in tech The New York Times published an in-depth story this week headlined Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment, which included… Read More
World View downs KFC’s stratospheric chicken sandwich early due to balloon leak World View Enterprises said its “Zinger 1” mission to keep a KFC chicken sandwich aloft in the stratosphere was terminated… Read More
Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More
Elon Musk unveils a parking lot prototype for The Boring Company’s car elevator The billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, says he spends only about 2 percent of his time working… Read More
Future of commerce? Mark Cuban to join ‘initial coin offering’ for Unikrn eSports betting platform Mark Cuban made headlines this week after the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner said he was planning to participate in an “initial… Read More
This Week in Seattle: Pike Place expansion opens, revealing stories from #SeaHomeless, a last-minute budget, and more Throwing his weight behind Jenny Durkan, Mayor Murray announces he won’t re-enter the race It’s official: Mayor Ed Murray will… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek: NASA’s super-quiet supersonic jet and Zillow battles McMansion Hell architecture blog You don’t hear many sonic booms these days, for good reason — commercial supersonic planes, which can travel incredibly fast while… Read More
Redfin testing ‘Redfin Now’ service that lets it buy and resell homes directly with customers In Redfin’s IPO filing that posted Friday, the company revealed a new service it is testing called Redfin Now that… Read More
After landing in Seattle, AppViewX eyes expansion to help modernize network infrastructure Nearly three months into its new life as a Seattle company, network management software company AppViewX is nearing profitability and… Read More
Study says climate change could increase North vs. South economic inequality America’s economic inequality could widen if global temperatures rise due to climate change, but there’s a silver lining for the… Read More
Redfin files for IPO as online real estate company seeks to raise up to $100M Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin filed for an initial public offering on Friday with U.S. regulators and will seek to… Read More
President Trump signs his executive order to reactivate the National Space Council After months of foreshadowing, President Donald Trump today signed an executive order to revive the National Space Council, a move… Read More
Report: Microsoft reorganizing its sales organization around cloud strategy Microsoft has reinvented itself over the past few years as a cloud-focused software company, and looks like it is applying… Read More
Tech Moves: Startup vet Bryan Zug joins Amazon’s UX team; Allen School of Computer Science adds two big players; and more Bryan Zug is a familiar face in the Seattle startup world. He’s an entrepreneur and product design expert himself, but… Read More
Geek of the Week: Azure chief of staff Aseem Datar’s Microsoft success story leads to the cloud Aseem Datar’s rise at Microsoft has taken him all the way to the cloud. In his 14 almost years at… Read More
Top Docker execs: How the container powerhouse is positioning itself for a multi-cloud world The CIOs have spoken: they’re determined to pursue a multi-cloud strategy, and Docker thinks it is well-positioned to help make… Read More
Facebook revs up race for global internet access with ‘successful’ drone test flight The drive to provide global internet access from the air is more of a horse race in the wake of… Read More
BMW ReachNow shuts down ‘corporate fleet’ pilot but still exploring enterprise business opportunities BMW is shutting down its “corporate fleet” pilot in Seattle, but the company continues to explore new ways to expand… Read More
Washington state’s new 564 area code takes effect next month Get ready to see more 564s in Washington. T-Mobile is notifying customers that the new area code will be rolling… Read More
Eight months later, GeekWire’s Daniel Rossi is rewiring his brain and transforming his health Daniel Rossi is 20 pounds lighter. His key numbers are looking much better. But he says the biggest change is… Read More
Nike confirms plan to sell products on Amazon, starting with ‘limited’ pilot Nike today confirmed that it will start selling products on Amazon.com, starting with “a limited Nike product assortment,” setting aside… Read More
It’s Asteroid Day! Scientists look on the bright side of our cosmic shooting gallery Asteroid experts say they’re looking forward to an explosion – but not the kind of extinction-level blast that killed off the… Read More
What’s really scary about Petya ‘ransomware’ attack? It might not be ransomware The recent “ransomware” computer virus outbreak is over, but the speculation is just beginning. And it begins with those quotes… Read More
