Articles from 2018 – Page 121 of 161

Wall Street warms to enterprise software: Could this bode well for Smartsheet, DocuSign and others?

The way Steve Singh sees it, big changes are coming to the enterprise software world. “There will be a next… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Grapple with climate change via video games; Learn about blockchain in retail; and more

How can video games change the world for the better? That’s the question posed by Games For Our Future: Surviving… Read More

Scientists dig the wild jazz music that bowhead whales are singing in the Arctic

A research team led by an University of Washington oceanographer has published the largest known set of songs from bowhead… Read More

Microsoft pledges $5B Internet of Things investment over 4 years

Microsoft said Wednesday it plans to invest $5 billion in the complicated-but-exciting world of Internet of Things over the next… Read More

Do-it-all Heroclip releasing new sizes and colors; Indiegogo goal of $30K reached in less than a day

Heroclip, the hybrid gear clip created by a former University of Washington professor, has a new hook to attract fans… Read More

Smooth talker: Microsoft speech technology claims superior conversational abilities

Microsoft’s digital assistants and chatbots are getting a lot chattier. Microsoft today unveiled the ability for bots to have “session-oriented”… Read More

Woman identified as YouTube shooter accused video platform of discrimination on her website

Police in San Bruno, Calif., home to YouTube’s headquarters, have identified the shooter who attacked the campus Tuesday as Nasim Najafi… Read More

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee defends Amazon, calling Trump attacks ‘unfounded and misguided’

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee took aim at President Donald Trump again Tuesday, this time defending one of the top job… Read More

Mind-bending new screen technology uses ‘magic pixel’ to display different content to multiple people

Walking through the airport, you look up at the big screen to find your gate. But this is no ordinary… Read More

Google plans to boost cloud performance between Asia and Australia with new undersea cable

Google’s latest undersea cable project will result in a faster connection between important tech centers in Asia and Australia like… Read More

Zipline adds zip to medical delivery service with next-gen drone that goes 80 mph

A California-based aerial delivery venture called Zipline has unveiled what it calls “the fastest commercial delivery drone on Earth,” capable… Read More

Follow-up: Valve updates the world on the fate of Steam Machine game consoles

It turns out that the Steam Machines aren’t dead. Yet. Over the weekend, several websites, the first of which appears… Read More

Marketing startup Lytics raises $14M to help brands understand their customers with data

Lytics has raised more funding to fuel growth of its customer data marketing platform. The 6-year-old Portland startup today announced… Read More

TLDR: Spotify goes public, Microsoft bets on AI, ‘Brotopia’ of Silicon Valley

[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

U.S. proposes tariffs on $50B in Chinese imports, including planes, robots and TVs

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative today rolled out a list of $50 billion worth of Chinese-made goods that could be… Read More

Avvo founder Mark Britton and 4 top execs to depart as Internet Brands acquisition closes

After co-founding Avvo and helping grow the online legal directory for the past 13 years, Mark Britton is ready for… Read More

DocuSign reveals annual revenue of $518M, up 36%, in updated IPO filing

Revenue at digital signature giant DocuSign jumped 36 percent to more than $518 million in its fiscal year ended Jan.… Read More

‘Stranger Things’ creators sued by director who says his short film provided idea for Netflix hit

News brief: The creators of the streaming television series “Stranger Things” are being sued by the director of a six-minute… Read More

Wildlife Computers lets scientists hitch tell-all rides with seals, whales, sharks, fish and seabirds

REDMOND, Wash. — At first, the monitoring tag revealed typical sea lion data. The mini-computer implanted in the animal detected… Read More

Microsoft and DOJ ask Supreme Court to dismiss case involving customer’s overseas data

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to drop a case that has pitted the… Read More

Update: Four victims reported in shooting at YouTube headquarters in California, shooter believed dead

Early reports of an active shooter at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. broke Tuesday afternoon. Employees and the San… Read More

Deep Space Industries will equip BlackSky satellites with water-spraying thrusters

California-based Deep Space Industries says it has signed a contract to provide water-spraying thrusters for the BlackSky Earth observation satellites… Read More

Everyone wants to know how Seattle’s dockless bike share experiment is going

City planners and researchers are eager to get feedback on Seattle’s novel dockless bike sharing pilot to determine whether it… Read More

Receipt data processing startup MetaBrite cuts employees amid ‘challenging circumstances’

MetaBrite laid off the majority of its employees last week as the Seattle startup struggles to find a new path forward… Read More

Emily Chang on the ‘Brotopia’ of Silicon Valley, and how companies can tackle a toxic culture

Silicon Valley is the birthplace of some of the most innovative companies in the world — Apple, Google and even Facebook… Read More

Star Wars fans spend $3.85M to back Jabba’s Barge, Hasbro’s biggest Star Wars toy vehicle ever

Fire up the R2-D2 drink cart! Star Wars geeks are going to get Jabba’s Sail Barge, a nearly 4-foot-long replica… Read More

Lockheed Martin wins $247.5M NASA contract for super-quiet supersonic test jet

NASA says Lockheed Martin will be its partner in building a supersonic test plane that’s designed to muffle sonic booms… Read More

University of Washington computer science school lands $3 million in state funding to double program

There are tens of thousands of open technology jobs in Washington state because there aren’t enough candidates trained in the… Read More

Stackery raises $5.5 million to build out serverless monitoring product

Serverless computing is having a moment right now, but there’s still a lot of work to be done ensuring that… Read More

Can Microsoft get smarter? Inside the tech giant’s massive bet on AI

Microsoft has so far released its artificial intelligence technologies largely through its well-known software platforms, such as the Cortana voice… Read More