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Articles from 2018

First look: ‘Giant Celebration’ lets you grow or shrink on demand to solve puzzles in VR

“Hidden object” games are probably easiest to define by comparing them to the popular Where’s Waldo line of children’s books.… Read More

The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps are trying to reinvent our workday

Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it. If… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 25, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 25, 2018. Read More

Marriott’s Starwood breach: What should you do? That depends on who, and why

It’s easy to focus on the big number associated with the Starwood breach announced by Marriott International on Friday —… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Spaceflight’s 64-satellite extravaganza inches closer to SpaceX launch

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is closing in on what’s shaping up as a grand convergence in commercial space. Spaceflight, which handles launch… Read More

PGA preburner hot-fire test

On the fast track: Stratolaunch says its rocket engine preburner has hit full power

Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch Systems’ rocket engine development effort: The Seattle-based space company founded by late Microsoft co-founder… Read More

‘I just got a Larvitar:’ Why throngs of Pokémon Go players are wandering trails, parks and city streets this weekend

Ducks, squirrels and dogs are the typical animals spotted on Seattle’s popular Green Lake walk. But on Saturday afternoon, it… Read More

‘Insane Mode’: A crash course in Elon Musk, Tesla, and the future of the electric car

Are you Elon Musk-ed out yet? If not, you might want to give Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked… Read More

Switch Healthcare aims to save employers money by helping their employees get healthy

Most people attend high school reunions to reminisce with old friends and check out the status of former girlfriends and… Read More

The Ellen effect: Dog camera startup sees sales soar after endorsement on The Ellen Show

Christmas came early for the folks at Tomofun. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup and maker of Furbo, a popular AI-powered dog… Read More

New tool to curb illegal trade of shark fins built with $322K in support from Paul Allen Philanthropies

Customs agents have been relying on their ability to visually match disembodied and sometimes dried and bleached shark fins with… Read More

Geek of the Week: Science, tech and startups fuel William Canestaro at Wash. Research Foundation

William Canestaro is keenly aware of the risk startup founders take when they go all in to start a company.… Read More

Seattle mayor moves to reduce tax burden on small businesses and startups

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed an executive order Friday in the hopes of removing burdens and barriers on the city’s… Read More

Microsoft is No. 1: Tech giant overtakes Apple for title of most-valuable U.S. company

Microsoft ended the week with the title of the most-valuable company in the U.S., pulling ahead of Apple Friday afternoon… Read More

‘Imagine holding your own heart’: GE teams with U.S. Veterans Affairs in Seattle to accelerate 3D printing in health care

Dr. Beth Ripley would like you to know that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is way more innovative than… Read More

New Relic CEO Lew Cirne is focused on customers “who play offense with software”

LAS VEGAS – The velocity of change in the enterprise computing market is an unsparing fact of life in this… Read More

Flying Fish adds 4 new venture partners as it raises $80M fund for Pacific Northwest startups

Flying Fish Partners this week announced four new venture partners as the Seattle-based venture capital firm continues to raise its… Read More

Most-valuable U.S. company? Who cares? Not Microsoft’s top execs, says tech giant’s marketing chief

Microsoft’s bid to unseat Apple as the most valuable U.S. company has been a huge story all week, but there’s one… Read More

Tsunami warning

Tweets document ‘major’ damage after 7.0 Alaska quake rocks Anchorage

Buildings in downtown Anchorage were damaged and roads were ruined when a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Alaska’s biggest city today. The… Read More

Trump admin takes first steps to overhaul H-1B visa that tech companies use to hire internationally

President Donald Trump’s immigration authorities are moving to enact broad changes to a visa that allows American companies to bring… Read More

Apple Music arrives on Amazon Echo in new partnership between voice tech competitors

Apple is making its Apple Music service available on Amazon Echo devices in a surprising new partnership between two rivals… Read More

Carlos Mauricio Peredo

A fossil named after Burke Museum curator tells whale of a tale about evolution

A whale that lived 33 million years ago when present-day Oregon was part of the ocean floor has been newly… Read More

Hungry for art? Nathan Myhrvold’s new Modernist Cuisine Gallery is a photographic feast

Nathan Myhrvold calls himself the worst bartender in the world. He spills every drink he makes — and sometimes he… Read More

OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar

Seattle is the cloud capital and an enterprise town — can consumer tech startups thrive, too?

When Nick Huzar started OfferUp, it was almost a disadvantage to be based in the Seattle area. “Investors didn’t really understand… Read More

Cruise executive team

GM shifts its president, Dan Ammann, to the CEO position at Cruise Automation

General Motors has shuffled its executive team to put its president, Dan Ammann, into the CEO spot at its autonomous-vehicle… Read More

Washington state affirms rule requiring Facebook and Google to make political ad disclosures

Washington state officials doubled down on rules requiring companies like Facebook to disclose information about the political ads they sell,… Read More

Amazon sued by family of deceased employee claiming wrongful death and discrimination

Relatives of a deceased Amazon employee are suing the Seattle company, claiming its negligence led to his wrongful death. The… Read More

Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware

LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service provider over the last 15 years knows… Read More

Washington Supreme Court sides with ex-Microsoft employee in retaliation suit, sends case back to trial

The Washington state Supreme Court today kicked a nearly four-year-old lawsuit against Microsoft back to trial, siding with a former employee… Read More

Xealth brings e-commerce to the doctors office with new Amazon integration

Imagine a patient who is having knee surgery. The person’s doctor will prescribe medication for recovery, provide instructions for physical… Read More

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