Articles from 2018 – Page 100 of 161

How number crunchers could help crack the cosmological mystery of dark energy

Big data just might give astronomers a better grip on the answer to one of the biggest questions in physics:… Read More

Amazon Prime members to get 10% off many Whole Foods items nationwide starting this summer

Amazon is taking the next step in its integration with Whole Foods Market, confirming that it will offer 10 percent… Read More

Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon

The Arch Mission Foundation is partnering with Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to have a miniaturized library sent to the moon’s surface aboard… Read More

TLDR: Starbucks & Amazon respond to Seattle tax vote, Surface Hub 2, new Star Wars movie

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Amazon board diversity in the spotlight as tech giant agrees to officially adopt ‘Rooney Rule’

Amazon says it is simply formalizing a practice that was already in place, but the company’s new policy pledging to… Read More

Redfin CEO breaks ranks with tech community in maverick response to ‘unreasonable’ Seattle tax

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman weighed in on Seattle’s controversial new head tax Tuesday, offering a sober perspective amid vitriolic responses… Read More

Smallest interplanetary probe snaps a picture of our Pale Blue Dot (and the moon)

You don’t have to fly beyond the orbit of Neptune to see our home planet as a Pale Blue Dot.… Read More

Voyager Capital raising its fifth fund as firm targets B2B startups in Pacific Northwest

Voyager Capital is raising another fund as it looks to continue investing in B2B startups based in the Pacific Northwest.… Read More

After Seattle passes ‘Amazon tax,’ mayor of neighboring city says ‘Bellevue is open for business’

Speculation that Seattle’s new head tax could be a boon for neighboring cities has been swirling since before the City… Read More

Even in a galaxy far, far away, ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ feels like a swashbuckling Western

[Editor’s Note: We’ve steered clear of any meaningful spoilers, but if you’re trying to avoid any information at all about… Read More

Ventec Life Systems raises $13M to scale one-of-a-kind portable life support device into new markets

Ventec Life Systems, the Seattle-area creator of a unique portable life support device, has raised another $13 million to… Read More

Amazon shipping ‘SmileCodes’ on some boxes to give customers creative cardboard projects

Depending on how much stuff you order from Amazon, there’s probably a fair amount of cardboard coming into your house… Read More

Nohla Therapeutics raises $45M, gets new HQ as it moves novel leukemia treatment closer to market

Seattle startup Nohla Therapeutics has raised another huge funding round as it moves its novel leukemia treatment closer to being… Read More

APiJET rolls out ‘Smart Aircraft’ monitoring service with Icelandair as first customer

Seattle’s Aviation Partners and iJet Technologies have joined forces in a software-as-a-service venture called APiJET, which is aimed at making… Read More

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS tool for building AR/VR applications, is now generally available

Amazon Web Services is ready to let all of its customers start playing with Amazon Sumerian, a tool that helps… Read More

Stats show drop-off in follow-on funding rounds for women-led startups compared to male peers

It’s a difficult funding environment for female entrepreneurs in today’s technology industry, where less than 3 percent of venture capital dollars went to… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Apple tech leaders headline GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way,… Read More

WTO issues its ‘final ruling’ against Airbus, opening the way for tariffs (or talks)

The World Trade Organization today issued its final report in a long-running dispute over subsidies for Airbus jets, potentially clearing… Read More

Auth0 raises $55M to fuel the identity management company’s international expansion

Auth0, a Bellevue, Wash. startup that helps developers build identity authentication capabilities into their applications, raised $55 million to embark on… Read More

Starbucks joins Amazon, lambasting Seattle’s new head tax on top-grossing companies

Two of Seattle’s top employers are taking the gloves off and pulling no punches in the wake of a newly… Read More

Microsoft unveils next generation Surface Hub, with the ability to ’tile’ up to four giant screens together

Microsoft today showed off the Surface Hub 2, doubling down on the massive conference room computer concept first introduced three years… Read More

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks about flying taxis and why his kids won’t own cars

Riding in the back of an Uber is sometimes the best way to hear an opinion on just about anything,… Read More

Coinstar and Amazon to let customers deposit cash to Amazon accounts at coin-counting kiosks

Customers looking to add cash to their Amazon balance have a new option. Amazon today announced an integration with Coinstar,… Read More

‘Our dream became real’: Why this Mark Cuban-backed esports startup can’t wait for legal sports betting

“In the last few hours, our dream became real, and our company just became substantially more valuable.” That’s the title… Read More

TLDR: Seattle Passes Smaller ‘Amazon Tax’

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Amazon responds to tax vote: Seattle’s ‘hostile approach and rhetoric … forces us to question our growth here’

Amazon will resume construction on a Seattle skyscraper in the wake of the City Council’s decision to tax its top-grossing… Read More

Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on Amazon and other big companies after impassioned debate

Updated below with Amazon statement. The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a smaller version of the controversial “head tax” on… Read More

Amazon Go to open in Chicago and San Francisco, expanding cashier-less store footprint

Amazon is opening additional Amazon Go locations in Chicago and San Francisco as the company expands its cashier-less grocery store… Read More

Cartogram raises more cash from Cyanogen founder, Bing Maps vet for mapping tech startup

Cartogram has reeled in more cash to help expand the use of its mapping technology. The Seattle-area startup just raised… Read More

21-year-old readings boost the case for water plumes spraying out from Europa

News Brief: A closer look at magnetic and plasma wave readings from NASA’s now-defunct Galileo spacecraft firms up the evidence… Read More