Articles from 2017 – Page 91 of 175

Walmart to buy Bonobos for $310M as it continues e-commerce battle with Amazon

Walmart announced Friday it is buying online apparel company Bonobos for $310 million to further beef up its e-commerce operation… Read More

Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7B, dramatically expanding physical retail footprint

Amazon will acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion, marking the Seattle-based tech giant’s most ambitious expansion yet into brick-and-mortar… Read More

2020 or bust: Planetary Resources is getting more bullish about asteroid mining

Planetary Resources CEO Chris Lewicki wants to let Mars-bound rockets carry five times more cargo than what’s possible today —… Read More

Watch: As disassembly continues, time-lapse video gives look inside Bertha the Seattle tunnel machine

Seven weeks of nearly non-stop work are taking a toll on Bertha. The SR 99 tunneling machine, which cut a… Read More

How this tech startup is helping 7 homeowners join forces to sell their properties at a premium

In November, Jane and Andy Freeman received an unexpected letter in the mail. A company called CityBldr reached out to notify them… Read More

It’s business, and it’s personal: How Amazon Web Services decides to enforce non-compete contracts

Career decisions are always stressful, but employees at Amazon Web Services face an additional source of anxiety when evaluating new… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Axon seeks front-end engineers to develop customer interface for law enforcement technology

Axon, the maker of Tasers, body cams and other technology products for law enforcement, is seeking a number of front-end… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Grassworks Digital makes technology for the burgeoning pot industry

It had been about a year since retailers in Washington state began selling recreational marijuana when Ryan Porter, a vet… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos turns to Twitter for advice on giving away his fortune

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people in the world, and like fellow billionaire… Read More

Tech Moves: Amperity preps for launch with new VP of marketing; Bungie CFO joins mixed reality startup; and more

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

China’s Micius satellite sets distance record for quantum entanglement in space

Chinese researchers report that they’ve set a new distance record for quantum teleportation through space, the phenomenon that Albert Einstein… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

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Health Tech Podcast: This startup is tackling one of healthcare’s biggest challenges with a tiny gadget

Taking a pill isn’t very hard for most people. But remembering you need to take a pill? That’s a bit… Read More

Seattle’s ‘Manhattan moment’: Luxury condo preview is a house party for a changing city

The Rolls-Royce and the Ferrari parked in front of a real estate sales office in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood Wednesday night were… Read More

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Study shows how tech like Fitbit and Facebook could help childhood cancer survivors stay healthy

We’re all familiar with Facebook and Fitbit — they’re convenient technologies that make our lives a bit easier. But scientists… Read More

Newly leased Amazon office building in Seattle sells for $330M to German investors

Another Amazon building has sold for big bucks. This time around it’s a building called Midtown21. Amazon announced its lease… Read More

Airbnb cements Seattle presence, establishing permanent office with room for 300 people

Airbnb is putting down permanent roots in Seattle with a major new office that makes the vacation rentals company the… Read More

Seattle’s Highspot raises $15M from Shasta Ventures and Salesforce Ventures to build out AI-powered sales tools

Highspot thinks its artificial intelligence models are making sales organizations much more efficient, and it has raised $15 million in… Read More

Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group gives $7.5M to studies on epigenetics, aging, evolution

Epigenetics, aging and microbial evolution: Those are the latest words in biomedical research for the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group,… Read More

If you’re a minority in technology, your own success is a form of social activism, says tech investor

If you’re a minority in the tech world — whether it’s your gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity or a combination… Read More

Amazon unveils $20 Dash Wand with Alexa for voice-enabled grocery ordering and home controls

Amazon just introduced a new Alexa device: a $20 version of its Amazon Dash Wand with the voice-enabled smart assistant… Read More

What it’s like to fly in the 77-year-old Breitling DC-3 as it circles the globe

The Breitling DC-3 airplane is on track to make history as the oldest plane to fly around the world —… Read More

Is Make.TV the new Elemental? Seattle video cloud startup raises $7.2M

Seattle’s Make.tv, a cloud-based video management portal, has raised $7.2 million in new funding and aims to raise a total… Read More

Commentary: Bonderman and Uber make my head hurt: What your company actually needs from a board member

My whole life I’ve believed that the true judge of one’s character is what he/she does when he thinks no… Read More

Expedia clears major planning milestone in preparation for 2019 HQ move to Seattle

Expedia just cleared an important permitting milestone with the city of Seattle as it prepares to move the majority of… Read More

Can’t wait for Super Mario Odyssey? Play 5 games that let you possess enemies and other characters

Perhaps the most intriguing thing revealed in Nintendo’s E3 presentation on Tuesday was Mario’s new possession ability in the upcoming… Read More

Former Microsoft VP named CEO of Unify Square, a startup that helps businesses deploy Skype

John Case, the former corporate vice president of global marketing, product management, and business teams for Office and Office 365, has… Read More

‘The D.O.D.O. Files’: Neal Stephenson’s time travel novel spawns instant spin-off

Seattle author Neal Stephenson’s newly published science-fiction novel, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.,” serves as the launch pad for… Read More

Working Geek: Business vet turned UW vice provost helps professionals learn in-demand tech skills

Technology is constantly changing nearly every industry and the skills professionals learn in college aren’t always current enough to keep… Read More