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Articles from 2017

King County Metro electric bus

King County Metro adds buses as Amazon summer interns flood Seattle

Summer has finally reached Seattle: The sun is out, the water is less chilly, and thanks to Amazon’s summer intern… Read More

Last chapter for Nook? Sales fell 23 percent during Barnes & Noble’s 2017 fiscal year

It’s going to take quite the plot twist to save the fate of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader, judging by… Read More

Co-working company Industrious expanding to Seattle with new office near Amazon’s headquarters

Another co-working company is coming to Seattle. Industrious, a New York-based company that bills itself as a “high-end” co-working provider,… Read More

President Trump

Trump plans to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule that helps foreign entrepreneurs start companies in the U.S.

In January, the outgoing Obama Administration finalized a long-awaited rule to create a “startup visa” that would help foreign entrepreneurs create… Read More

Amazon says Echo Show will connect to Nest, Ring and other security cameras via Alexa

Amazon this morning is announcing the first home-monitoring and security cameras that will be compatible with the new $230 Echo… Read More

Snowflake Computing is giving customers easier ways to share huge data sets

You’ll hear a mantra again and again if you spend enough time in enterprise computing circles: “data has gravity.” Usually… Read More

Chariot CEO says Ford-owned shuttle service will help alleviate Seattle’s ‘transit deserts’

Ford-owned shuttle service Chariot is launching in Seattle today. For the time being, it will focus primarily on working with… Read More

Scientists say there may be yet another unseen planet at solar system’s edge

Astronomers say they’ve found hints that an unseen planetary-mass object may lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system.… Read More

How Seattle’s Distelli is making one of the hottest products in enterprise tech easier to use

Software development organizations are falling in love with Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration software that allows them to deploy software… Read More

Amazon drops contentious non-compete lawsuit against former AWS exec who left for new job at Smartsheet

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from Amazon. The former executive at Amazon Web Services who… Read More

Total solar eclipse

NASA enlists citizen scientists to widen its view of totality during solar eclipse

Scientists are gearing up to gather data from the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, but the most crucial observations can… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Worcket wants to shake up recruiting with millennial-minded job hunting app

After years of watching their employers in the technology industry struggle to fill crucial roles, Gonzalo Aguero and Sergio Klarreich… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ new DAX database accelerator juices performance without an app overhaul

Amazon Web Services’ in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database, introduced just two months ago in preview mode, has been promoted… Read More

It’s T-minus-2 months to solar eclipse: Officials brace for totality traffic jams

The all-American total solar eclipse is still two months away, but federal and state agencies are already getting the word… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Hands-on with Microsoft’s Surface Laptop and Apple’s 10.5-inch iPad Pro

Microsoft has never been much of a hardware company, but the tech giant is hoping to change that in a… Read More

Trump tech council

Transcript: Here’s what Microsoft, Amazon and Apple CEOs told Trump about tech this week

President Trump said that he was joined by “an incredible group of leaders” as he kicked off a meeting of… Read More

John Legere

T-Mobile delays annual raises, offers special stock grant amid fresh rumors about Sprint merger

T-Mobile is delaying annual salary increases for employees from July 2017 to February 2018, offering a one-time $1,000 “celebratory” stock… Read More

Happy summer! Now get ready for winter with this action-packed ‘Game of Thrones’ trailer

The kids might be out of school and the beach vacations may already be booked, but forget summer. Winter is… Read More

Ford-owned shuttle service Chariot confirms Seattle expansion, will focus on enterprises first

Ford-owned shuttle company Chariot confirmed plans this morning to expand its service to Seattle, adding another company to the mix… Read More

Hardware maker behind Xbox controllers and Apple laptops in receivership following abrupt closure

Last month, 30-year-old Stratos Product Development closed abruptly.  No explanation was given for the closure, and some wondered how an… Read More

Textio raises $20M to expand ‘augmented writing’ platform for the enterprise

Textio, the Seattle startup that provides an “augmented writing” platform to help companies put together better job postings, has raised… Read More

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns after facing pressure from investors

The New York Times reported late Tuesday that Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick has resigned. NYT reporter Mike Isaac… Read More

Satya Nadella

Leaders of top tech companies land on Glassdoor’s list of the 100 highest-rated CEOs

CEOs of some of the world’s top tech companies are feeling the love today, thanks to a new list from… Read More

UW researchers’ ‘kidney on a chip’ will be prepped for space station experiment

A stack of card-sized gizmos that test the effects of drugs, toxins and weightlessness on human kidney cells is due… Read More

Academic search engines

Microsoft, Google and Baidu team up with Paul Allen’s AI2 on Open Academic Search

Microsoft, Google and Baidu may be competitors in the business world, but when it comes to open-access academic resources, they’re… Read More

Coming off a strong quarter, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst talks public clouds and containers

Coming off a quarterly earnings report that shattered expectations, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst believes his company is as well-positioned… Read More

Microsoft Azure, Baidu embrace AMD’s new Epyc data center processor

Advanced Micro Devices’ long road back to relevance as a data center computing supplier got a little easier with promises… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Zillow exec Chloe Harford finds new home at OfferUp; Exec in charge of Amazon Go joins Opendoor; etc.

Longtime Zillow executive Chloe Harford is leaving the real estate tech company to join OfferUp as the company’s new vice president of… Read More

STEM

Study: Nearly 30% of Washington state’s STEM workers are immigrants

In a meeting with top tech execs Monday, President Donald Trump promised to help them “get the people you want.”… Read More

Spheres tree

Watch: Giant tree is hoisted into the Amazon Spheres in milestone planting for Seattle structures

A 48-year-old tree, sent by truck from a Southern California farm two weeks ago, has a new home inside the… Read More

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