Articles from 2018 – Page 127 of 161

Sure, why not? Google said to be getting in on the blockchain

It’s not a huge surprise that a company known for moonshots is taking a close look at the blockchain. Bloomberg… Read More

Alder BioPharma CEO and founder steps down as its lead migraine drug approaches FDA approval

News Brief: Randall Schatzman, the CEO and president of Bothell, Wash., company Alder BioPharmaceuticals, is stepping down from his role… Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg breaks silence on data breach scandal

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first public statement Wednesday following reports thatRepublican campaign operatives obtained data from 50 million… Read More

Bike sharing companies Spin, LimeBike warn riders of brake lines being cut on bicycles in Seattle

Update, March 21, 3:40 p.m. PT: This story has been updated with additional information from LimeBike, the Seattle Department of… Read More

Tech Moves: PicMonkey co-founder Lisa Conquergood joins Ripl; Starbucks hires tech vet as general counsel; and more

Lisa Conquergood has taken quite a journey in the startup world. She was the chief marketing officer of photo-editing service… Read More

U.S.-Russian crew lifts off on two-day trip to International Space Station

News Brief: Russia launched a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, sending two NASA astronauts and a… Read More

Starbucks CEO says company is ‘rare exception’ among struggling brick-and-mortar retailers torpedoed by tech

While many physical retailers have closed stores or gone out of business with the rise of e-commerce, Starbucks has been “the… Read More

Starbucks eliminates gender pay gap in U.S. workforce, aims to do the same worldwide

The pay gap between men and women doing similar work has been a persistent issue in the U.S. for decades.… Read More

Relativity strikes deal with NASA to use rocket engine test complex in Mississippi

Relativity, a rocket startup with roots at Blue Origin and SpaceX, says it has been awarded an exclusive 20-year lease… Read More

Class action suit vs. CenturyLink and DirecTV alleges customer data can be accessed via internet search

A lawsuit against internet provider CenturyLink and AT&T-owned DirecTV alleges the companies fail to adequately protect personal customer data — to… Read More

‘I look out my window, I see a lot of cranes’: Erik Nordstrom talks Amazon and competing in retail

Keeping an eye on Amazon has got to be an unsettling reality for almost any retailer these days. In Seattle,… Read More

Job search platform Randrr acquires anonymous career-matching startup Anthology

Randrr, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based job search platform, today announced the acquisition of Anthology, a Seattle startup that developed an anonymous… Read More

Google introduces several new cloud security tools, promises transparency and usability

Two days after one of Google’s earliest employees laid down a bit of a manifesto regarding its commitment to cybersecurity,… Read More

Sift Science raises $53M to bolster machine learning for fighting fraud online

Sift Science, a San Francisco company that builds software to fight fraud online and recently opened a Seattle office, has… Read More

Has Amazon changed its ways? LinkedIn’s Top Companies list puts Seattle tech giant at No. 1

A week after taking the top spot in a ranking that measures brand reputation in the eyes of the public,… Read More

Even after death, Stephen Hawking stirs up fresh cosmological tiffs and tributes

The ashes of the late British physicist Stephen Hawking will get a fitting resting place in Westminster Abbey, near the… Read More

How a Seattle startup found itself in the middle of a bomb threat at SXSW

FastBar headed to SXSW last week with the intention of powering the payments technology at a concert with The Roots.… Read More

TLDR: Fatal accident raises questions about self-driving cars; Waze expands carpool service; Buff Bezos’ robot dog

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube to catch every episode, check back… Read More

Starbucks pledges $10M to support development of recyclable, compostable coffee cups

Starbucks said Tuesday it is pledging $10 million toward a new initiative to develop a recyclable coffee cup within three… Read More

Mobile gas delivery service Filld expands with pilot program in Seattle

Seattle car owners can now get their tank filled without going to the gas station. Silicon Valley-based Filld just launched… Read More

Washington senator says Mark Zuckerberg should ‘not be silent’ on Facebook user data scandal

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) added her voice to the chorus of lawmakers calling for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify… Read More

Salesforce makes a $6.5B bet on the hybrid cloud with the acquisition of MuleSoft

Salesforce just made the largest acquisition in its history, snapping up MuleSoft for $6.5 billion in order to help it… Read More

Last call for the Humanity Star satellite!

Humanity Star, we hardly knew ye. When Rocket Lab revealed in January that it sent a disco-ball satellite called “the… Read More

Amazon passes Google parent Alphabet to become second most valuable company in the world

Amazon passed Google parent Alphabet in market value, and now only Apple is worth more based on that measure. Amazon… Read More

Top schools for AI: New study ranks the leading U.S. artificial intelligence grad programs

Artificial intelligence is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies of the century. A new study of the… Read More

Facebook developed a new networking architecture to handle increased demands on its data centers, will donate to OCP

In order to keep up with demand for its services inside its data centers, Facebook developed a new networking architecture… Read More

#WakandaForever! Record-breaking ‘Black Panther’ is also the most-tweeted about film of all time

The superhero mega-hit “Black Panther” isn’t just leaving its mark on the box office record books. The film is hashtagging… Read More

Policymakers admit they need to get more intelligent about artificial intelligence

It’s high time for government officials to get up to speed on the promise and potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence,… Read More

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The tipping point on cancer treatment, from research labs to the top of Mount Everest

Luke Timmerman started climbing mountains with college buddies when he was in his 20s. He’s climbed Mount Rainier in Washington… Read More

Expedia-owned Orbitz likely hacked, exposing 2 years of customer data

Travel site Orbitz, which is owned by Expedia, said a “legacy travel booking platform” was likely hacked last year, exposing… Read More