Articles from 2018 – Page 131 of 161

Former Seattle transportation chief Scott Kubly joins LimeBike to run government operations

LimeBike has a new executive: Scott Kubly, the former Seattle official who oversaw the biggest transportation levy in city history,… Read More

Chinese bike-sharing juggernaut Ofo raises $866 million from Alibaba and other investors

Ofo has raised a massive $866 million in funding. The Beijing-based company operates millions of lemon-yellow dockless shared bicycles around… Read More

‘Cosmic Crisp’ conflict: Washington State University sues its own spinoff in dispute over ‘apple of the future’

Update: One day after this story published, Washington State University and Phytelligence issued their own public statements. One of the world’s… Read More

Last chance to purchase tickets for Thursday’s GeekWire Bash, a giant geek carnival with VR, video games, geeky sports and more

Ready to zoom on a zipline, fly over Washington state in a virtual world or challenge your tech rivals to… Read More

Protect your Amazon drone-delivered package? There’s an APP airbag for that

Seven years after Jeff Bezos had the idea of putting an airbag on your smartphone, Amazon’s inventors have kicked it… Read More

Facebook opens big new Seattle building, boosting total capacity in the city to nearly 3,000 people

RELATED: Inside Facebook’s newest office building with one of its first Seattle employees Facebook debuted a new office building in Seattle… Read More

Who will be crowned the foosball champ at this year’s GeekWire Bash? Full brackets released

Who will prevail on the foosball pitch? We’ll find out Thursday, as will the rest of the Seattle tech community,… Read More

Fred Hutch study paves the way for potential muscular dystrophy treatment

A new study conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle has found a new potential target for… Read More

Spaceflight Industries firms up European satellite alliance and $150M funding round

It’s official: After receiving all government approvals, a French-Italian joint venture has taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries… Read More

Vacation rental company Vacasa doubles Portland office space, plans to hire 100 employees in 2018

Fresh off a $103 million investment round, vacation rental management company Vacasa is moving into a new 61,000 square-foot office… Read More

Harnessing tech for good: Meet our non-profit Impact Partners at Thursday’s GeekWire Bash

The GeekWire Anniversary Bash on Thursday will feature plenty of fast-moving dodgeball, ping pong and foosball action. But it will also… Read More

When technology was totally radical: Dream of the ’80s lives on inside working Seattle museum exhibit

The Living Computers: Museum + Labs is built around important pieces and time periods as they relate to the history… Read More

Misconceptions and stereotypes may discourage girls from studying STEM, study finds

Gender imbalance is a tale as old as the tech industry itself. Across the industry, women make up just 30… Read More

Cloudflare to open an edge computing service for developers using its network

Cloudflare is ready to take the wraps of a new service designed for developers creating Internet-of-Things apps that want to… Read More

Beyond the Avatar XPRIZE: ANA airline unveils ambitious vision for telepresence

All Nippon Airways’ newly announced sponsorship of a $10 million contest for real-life avatars is just one part of a… Read More

FCC stings Swarm Technologies after an unauthorized launch of tiny satellites

A stealthy California startup called Swarm Technologies is facing the wrath of the Federal Communications Commission after its super-miniaturized satellites… Read More

GeekWire Bash: Full ping pong brackets released for Thursday’s epic showdown

Are you ready for some ping pong? We are, and so is the Seattle tech community. We’ve got more than… Read More

Cities join net neutrality fight with Open Internet Pledge spearheaded by New York City mayor

The mayors of New York, San Francisco, Portland, and a handful of other cities across the country are banding together… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin strikes satellite launch deal with Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it has signed up Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT… Read More

Amazon Cloud Cam adds more Alexa integration, new ways to follow security camera’s live feed

Amazon released another big update to its Cloud Cam indoor security camera, adding greater integration with Alexa and making it… Read More

LeaveLogic parental leave management platform acquired by benefits solutions giant Unum

Unum, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based provider of employee benefits solutions, has acquired LeaveLogic, a Seattle-based startup that operates a parental leave management… Read More

Hey, sad internet, use your imagination! If Toys R Us goes bust, pick a smaller box to shop in

Commentary: Reports suggesting that Toys R Us and its 800 remaining stores may not be long for this retail world… Read More

NASA’s acting administrator says he’ll retire in April, adding to power vacuum

Robert Lightfoot, who has been serving as NASA’s acting administrator since the start of the Trump administration, says he’ll be… Read More

Hungry for further exploration, Jeff Bezos eats iguana and discusses how to pay for space travel

Whatever critters live on the distant planets where Jeff Bezos eventually lands, here’s a word of advice: run! The Amazon… Read More

Whole Foods schedules meeting with vendors to ‘reassure’ relations post-Amazon deal

Whole Foods has scheduled a meeting with its vendors next week to help relieve tensions as the grocer tries to… Read More

How Amazon aspires to transform business meetings using Alexa

Amazon first announced Alexa for Business, the entrance of the company’s digital assistant into the enterprise world last year, and… Read More

At $16 to $18 a share, Dropbox’s IPO would value it below its last private funding round

Dropbox updated its IPO prospectus Monday with the intended offering price for its shares on the Nasdaq, disclosing plans to… Read More

Dodgeball brackets set for the big GeekWire Bash

March Madness is about to begin. No, not that madness. It’s time for the GeekWire Bash — featuring one of… Read More

Watch John Oliver break down blockchain and bitcoin on ‘Last Week Tonight’

The same day news of cryptocurrency scammers making off with more than $2 million surfaced, John Oliver dedicated most of his… Read More

Microsoft Teams ratchets up Slack challenge, claims 200k organizations as customers one year after launch

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech… Read More