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Articles from 2018

Caroline King

Geek of the Week: Washington STEM CEO Caroline King promotes opportunity through education

Caroline King has devoted her career to giving young people better access to economic opportunity, particularly through education. Seven years ago,… Read More

GeekWire 200 March update: Top-ranked Smartsheet and DocuSign file for IPOs

Two of the top five companies GeekWire 200, our ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s top startups, are going public, leaving… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches fifth batch of Iridium NEXT telecom satellites

Another 10 next-generation Iridium telecommunications satellites were sent into orbit today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg… Read More

REI ZipAll

April Fool’s gags keep giving with REI ZipAll jumpsuit, Redbox walk-up theaters, and more

The biggest April Fool’s Day prank of the year might be that several days in March are standing in for… Read More

5 key takeaways from The New Yorker’s revealing profile of new Uber chief Dara Khosrowshahi

Dara Khosrowshahi has become one of the world’s most influential technology executives by spending more than a decade thinking about… Read More

Microsoft rolls out the first availability zones within Azure regions to boost customer reliability

The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and… Read More

Big Bang Theory

Bill Gates leaves ’em laughing (and crying) with his guest appearance on ‘The Big Bang Theory’

A few days ahead of April Fool’s Day, Bill Gates made a guest appearance on “The Big Bang Theory.” It… Read More

Zombie Road Highway

Want to fight virtual zombies while riding in a real car? Apple aims to patent that idea

Running over virtual zombies might seem like a strange way to fight motion sickness in a moving car, but that’s… Read More

Be bombastic: Top investors share startup tips for female entrepreneurs

For female entrepreneurs, trying to pitch investors and raise money can be a tough proposition in a technology industry where… Read More

TLDR: Big week for Bill Gates, Trump vs. Amazon, electric ferries and an Apple AirPods giveaway

[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

Tech industry’s cavalier and arrogant attitude foments backlash but started long before Trump, top execs say

Big tech companies have ascended to a position of extraordinary power by finding creative ways to sell customer data, moving… Read More

Working Geek: Nintex CEO Eric Johnson says lemonade, hard knocks, discipline led to success

Sure, you’ve heard the tales of business execs as youthful capitalists, setting up lemonade stands. But I bet you haven’t… Read More

Starlink satellites

FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to provide broadband services with Starlink satellites

  The Federal Communications Commission says it has approved SpaceX’s application to provide broadband internet access via thousands of Starlink… Read More

Triassic scene

Triassic Park: Paleontologists publish piles of papers on dinosaurs and their relatives

News Brief: “Jurassic Park” may be all the rage this summer, but a research team led by the University of… Read More

Healthcare tech company Accolade raises another $50M, total funding tops $200M

Accolade has raised another big investment round to fuel growth of its healthcare technology platform. The company, headquartered in Seattle… Read More

Microsoft doubles down on artificial intelligence in engineering reorganization

Two key letters show up throughout Microsoft’s major reorganization announcement this morning: AI. Artificial intelligence will get even more emphasis as part… Read More

Pierre Dutrieux and drone

Scientists report successful start to undersea drones’ Antarctic ice shelf study

A scientific team supported by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is reporting the successful deployment of a trio of undersea drones… Read More

ACLU urges local governments to offer public internet as a utility after FCC’s net neutrality rollback

The nation’s leading civil rights group is urging local governments to treat internet like a public utility as concern over… Read More

HBO Westworld

Freedom never looked so bleak: Watch new trailers for ‘Westworld’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Sci-fi spring fever is in full effect for fans of two of the biggest hits on television: “Westworld” and “The… Read More

Washington will be a world leader for self-driving cars and electric ferries, governor predicts

The future of transportation will be in Seattle. That’s a proclamation Washington Gov. Jay Inslee made at an event Wednesday… Read More

Microsoft puts more eggs in cloud leader Scott Guthrie’s basket, moving core Windows development and some AI teams to his group

Microsoft’s cloud business is the company’s economic engine these days, hitting aggressive revenue targets earlier than expected with plenty of… Read More

Windows chief leaving Microsoft as CEO Satya Nadella rolls out massive engineering reorg

Terry Myerson, the Windows chief who worked to bring Microsoft’s operating system into a new era of cloud computing and… Read More

Trump

Amazon stock sinks again as Trump tweets that tech giant pays ‘little or no taxes’ and uses postal service as ‘their delivery boy’

Amazon stock fell even more on Thursday morning after President Donald Trump expressed concerns over the tech giant, saying that… Read More

Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain-chip venture reportedly looks into rodent experiments

If Neuralink, the brain-chip company backed by billionaire Elon Musk, ever wants to hook up minds and machines, it’ll have… Read More

Boeing downplays reports of massive disruption from WannaCry malware, says no production issues

Boeing is not experiencing any production issues after experiencing what it called a “limited intrusion of malware” Wednesday, despite a… Read More

TLDR: Amazon and housing, Car2Go + ReachNow, and a book review by Bill Gates and his daughter

[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

Jeff Bezos

Thanks, Trump: Amazon stock tumbles and Jeff Bezos loses $5.2B off his net worth in one day

If you’re eyeballing the real-time list of the world’s billionaires, and holding out hope that you might someday catch Jeff… Read More

Tim Cook

Tim Cook takes shot at Amazon HQ2 search and says Apple won’t conduct such a ‘beauty contest’

Apple announced back in January that it plans to create another campus and thousands of jobs somewhere, presumably away from its… Read More

Big Fish Casino video game constitutes illegal online gambling, federal appeals court rules

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Big Fish Games’ Big Fish Casino constitutes illegal online gambling, according to Washington… Read More

Digital signature giant DocuSign files for IPO, seeks $100M in tech industry’s latest public offering

Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded… Read More

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