Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 11, 2018.
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If Paul Allen’s Seattle Seahawks are sold, who could step in? Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? Howard Schultz?!
Paul Allen saved the Seattle Seahawks when he acquired the team in 1996 and kept the NFL franchise from relocating to Southern California. … Read More
Vista Equity Partners to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio
Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. … Read More
Seattle Mariners’ data guru Lorena Martin rips team’s leadership after being fired from unique job
Lorena Martin, the first Director of High Performance with the Seattle Mariners, is out after just one season with the Major League Baseball team, and she’s not leaving on friendly terms. … Read More
Elon Musk and Mars take the spotlight in National Geographic TV doubleheader
Science fiction blends with fact in tonight’s double dose of Mars from National Geographic’s TV channel. … Read More
Amazon announces HQ2 cities, splitting second headquarters as extraordinary contest concludes
ARLINGTON, Va. — After more than a year of reconnaissance, frenzied speculation, and non-stop media coverage, Amazon’s remarkable “HQ2” search is over. … Read More
Hands-on with the $350 Surface Headphones: Why is Microsoft making them, and are they any good?
Though the surprise announcement of Microsoft’s new wireless headphones seemingly came out of nowhere, the final product was the culmination of three years of work and dozens of different versions. … Read More
Amazon has chosen its HQ2 city, and guess what, Seattle? It’s us
Amazon has spoken. The race is over. The winner (or some may argue loser) of Amazon’s much ballyhooed HQ2 search is … Seattle. … Read More
Steve Carell as Jeff Bezos on ‘Saturday Night Live’ trolls Trump just days after Amazon picks HQ2 sites
Amazon announced its intentions this week to go live from New York with one of its new headquarters locations. … Read More
HQ2 incentives revealed: Here’s what NYC and Virginia gave up to get Amazon’s new headquarters
One of the most controversial aspects of Amazon’s year-long search for a second headquarters was the request for government incentives in exchange for creating thousands of jobs and investing billions of dollars in the winning community. … Read More
Music City strikes a chord with Amazon: Nashville lands logistics hub with 5,000 corporate jobs
Well, it’s not quite HQ2 or HQ 1.5, or whatever Amazon’s headquarters search may now be called. … Read More