Articles from 2018

T-Mobile plays Trump card to convince regulators Sprint merger will be good for consumers

T-Mobile and Sprint are speaking President Donald Trump’s language. The two companies are pitching their merger as a pro-consumer deal… Read More

Amazon to open new 416K square-foot office in Vancouver, will hire for 3,000 new jobs

Amazon is expanding in Vancouver again. The Seattle tech giant today announced plans for a new 416,000 square-foot office in… Read More

Microsoft’s venture fund gets a new name: M12

Microsoft Ventures, the tech giant’s venture capital investment arm, is now M12. The “M” in the name stands for Microsoft,… Read More

Jeff Bezos, fashion model? This boot-clad billionaire strikes a pose for Blue Origin

If being Amazon’s CEO ever gets tiresome for Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest human, he could always turn to a… Read More

Internal memo: T-Mobile CEO assures employees ‘we’ll still be magenta’ after Sprint merger

T-Mobile CEO John Legere bleeds magenta, and the trademark color of the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier won’t be going anywhere… Read More

T-Mobile HQ2: Sprint merger to give Seattle-area company a ‘second headquarters’ in Kansas

T-Mobile has found its own HQ2 — no nationwide search required. The wireless company’s deal to merge with Sprint, announced… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture sends its New Shepard spaceship to new heights

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture notched another record today when it sent its New Shepard suborbital spaceship… Read More

T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merge, creating $146B rival to AT&T and Verizon, led by John Legere

After years of on-again, off-again talks, wireless rivals T-Mobile and Sprint plan to merge in a deal that values the… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 22, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 22, 2018. Read More

From AR to VR: After games, what’s the next big market for ‘extended reality?’

It’s OK to be confused about what the hot markets will be for digitally extended reality. Because figuring out which… Read More

State of play: Dell-commissioned survey shows a widening, diverse audience for video games in 2018

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8EIkYJPlg We’ve known for a hot minute that the consumer demographics in the video game industry were A) changing rapidly,… Read More

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Inside MoPOP’s world-premiere Marvel exhibit: The human sides of heroes and their creators

If you only know Marvel from the movies, you don’t really know Marvel. That’s the sense you get when you enter… Read More

TLDR: A big day for Seattle tech companies on Wall Street, universal flu vaccine, the intersection of tech and fashion

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

Is tech or the city responsible for Seattle’s housing crunch? Report explores roots of affordability crisis

Two fast-growing Seattle-area tech companies went public this week. DocuSign and Smartsheet both opened with higher stock prices than expected,… Read More

NASA is reworking its moon rover mission amid outcry from lunar advisory group

An influential group of advisers on lunar exploration says NASA is canceling its Resource Prospector mission to explore the moon’s… Read More

Working Geek: Privacy chief Ginger Armbruster guards Seattle’s data from surprising threats

Open records laws that let people keep an eye on their government are generally seen as a net social good.… Read More

From stay-at-home dad to DocuSign CEO: How Dan Springer guided digital signature giant to IPO

A little more than a year ago, Dan Springer was a stay-at-home dad. Today he is the CEO of a… Read More

Geek of the Week: In tech’s big picture, Google Clips UX researcher Eva Snee focuses on the user

Eva Snee works on a gadget that many folks may not even be aware of yet. The important thing, for… Read More

Commentary: Wake up, white men, it’s time to stop talking and start acting on diversity

[Editor’s note: This guest commentary comes from Michael Schutzler, CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association] In the technology industry,… Read More

GeekWire Whiteboard Friday: Rand Fishkin’s 3 tips for startups and early stage teams

Rand Fishkin, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur and SparkToro founder, became known for his “Whiteboard Friday” videos as the co-founder of… Read More

Fashion and technology find their fit together in a runway show at the University of Washington

New York. Paris. Milan. U Dub? When rattling off the fashion epicenters of the world, the University of Washington in… Read More

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader just completed a $150M IPO: Here are the things he won’t be doing

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning and before ringing the… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Valant seeks DevOps engineer to support electronic health records system

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are commonplace in doctors’ offices and hospitals around the world. They help doctors track a patient’s medical… Read More

Possible Finance launches with small, short-term loans designed for low-income borrowers

Tony Huang was inspired to create Possible Finance because “it’s so damn expensive to be poor.” The Seattle startup just launched… Read More

Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for universal flu vaccine, as Bill Gates urges world to prepare for war on pandemics

One hundred years ago, an aggressive flu virus killed 675,000 Americans in just 3 weeks. The virus, known as Spanish… Read More