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Articles from 2018

Startup Spotlight: AutoMech concierge car service aims to take the hassle out of maintenance

Enthusiasm for a trip to the auto mechanic probably falls somewhere between a dentist appointment and retrieving the dry cleaning.… Read More

VMware beats Wall Street expectations as reverse merger with Dell Technologies looms

In what might be one of its last quarters as an independent public company, VMware gave investors something to smile… Read More

The largest DDoS attack yet recorded staggered Github on Wednesday

Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended… Read More

GOES-S launch

Atlas 5 rocket launches GOES-S satellite to watch Western weather and wildfires

A next-generation GOES-S weather satellite, the second of its kind, rose into orbit at 2:02 p.m. PT (5:02 p.m. ET)… Read More

Uber Health launches with tools to help patients get to medical appointments

Uber launched a new service Thursday designed to ferry patients to and from doctors’ appointments. The Uber Health dashboard allows… Read More

Bill Nye

Bill Nye the Nike guy: The earth stands still in new ad, and the Science Guy and others step in to help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WLSaPpGQHII If science give you the spins, wait until you catch this new ad from Nike, as the Portland sneaker… Read More

Uber rethinks ‘antagonistic relationship’ with cities

After a long history skirting municipal regulations and evading local law enforcement, Uber is ready to make peace with cities.… Read More

Neuronal firing

Allen Brain Institute shares huge database of computerized neurons at work

Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science has created a publicly available database of computerized neuron models that could be used… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet heading new data-focused game publisher; Cortana under new management; and more

There’s plenty of data in mobile technology and games, but the mobile games world struggles to translate it into insightful… Read More

Federal Reserve chair says ‘Amazon effect’ could be responsible for low inflation

Jerome Powell, the new Federal Reserve Chairman, believes Amazon may be one cause of slow U.S. inflation. In his first… Read More

Famed Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer chases biggest blockbuster yet: NHL team in Seattle

Seattle has a special place in the heart of famed movie and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Before franchises like Top… Read More

Steve Ballmer

Hot dog eating champ Joey Chestnut gobbles up Steve Ballmer during stunt at L.A. Clippers game

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was hot doggin’ it again during his team’s game against the Houston Rockets this… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: Veteran entrepreneur Ron Bianchini sells third startup, this time to Microsoft

PITTSBURGH — Ron Bianchini was creating and selling tech startups long before it was the cool thing to do in… Read More

Pittsburgh Postscript: Surprises, gripes, memorable characters and epic experiences from GeekWire’s month in the Steel City

PITTSBURGH — What an incredible experience. A rotating cast of GeekWire reporters and editors spent the month of February 2018… Read More

The future of Pittsburgh and the world: CMU’s Andrew Moore brings GeekWire’s HQ2 project home

PITTSBURGH — Last fall, after we solicited proposals to establish our own temporary “GeekWire HQ2” somewhere in North America, we… Read More

Tim Leiweke

Could Amazon help Seattle land an NHL team? Ownership group sees arena as tech ‘showcase’

The Seattle SuperSonics played their last game at Key Arena in 2008, a few months after Amazon planted its flag… Read More

Zillow Prize

Top three teams revealed in ongoing $1M Zillow Prize battle aimed at improving the Zestimate

A competition aimed at improving the Zillow Zestimate home-valuation algorithm attracted more than 3,800 teams when it was announced last May,… Read More

With $13.5M boost, Astranis unveils big plan to beam internet from small satellites

Astranis Space Technologies is taking the wraps off a plan to provide internet access to billions of people, using small-sized,… Read More

First stars

Scientists say they’ve detected birth of the first stars – and perhaps dark matter, too

Astronomers have detected radio waves from a time within 180 million years of the Big Bang, and they say they… Read More

The most notorious hacks in history, and what they mean for the future of cybersecurity

Where has the time gone? February is almost over, and already we’ve seen several major vulnerabilities and hacks this year!… Read More

YouTube TV to stream Seattle Sounders FC matches in latest sports video deal

The premium YouTube TV video service has struck a multi-year deal with Seattle Sounders FC to become the exclusive live… Read More

AI common-sense problem

How Paul Allen’s plan to make AI more sensible aims to keep us humans safer

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s… Read More

Tech workforce expert dives deep on non-compete contracts, offering 4 policy recommendations in new report

The non-compete agreement is a lightning rod in the tech industry, with proponents claiming they are necessary to protect valuable… Read More

GeekWire 200 February update: Virtual medical checkups, the genetics of cannabis and smart plants

The Pacific Northwest’s reputation as an innovation hub comes mostly from the tech industry, but the healthcare and biotech companies… Read More

Marc Benioff Salesforce

Salesforce tops analyst estimates on record Q4 revenue, raises guidance for the coming year

The market for Salesforce’s cloud-based sales and marketing tools continues to be hot, as the company posted records for fourth-quarter… Read More

GeekWire Bash: Ping Pong, foosball, dodgeball and Catan tourney deadline is Thursday

The GeekWire Anniversary Bash — our biggest and craziest event of the year —is coming up on March 15th at… Read More

Cell therapies are giving Seattle an edge in biotech, driving three acquisitions in under a month

On a chilly Monday morning in January, Seattle awoke to the news that one of its most promising companies, Juno… Read More

Can a city facing a tech boom keep its soul? What Pittsburgh’s mayor learned from GeekWire HQ2

Cities with booming tech economies around the country face an existential crisis. How can they maintain their cultural identity and… Read More

Paul Allen to invest $125M for new ‘common sense AI’ project, aims to achieve ‘major breakthroughs’

Paul Allen is pouring more money into artificial intelligence research. The Microsoft co-founder on Wednesday announced Project Alexandria, a new… Read More

Creative uses of technology help conservationists save tigers, wolverines and other vanishing species

When people began panicking about vanishing wild tigers in the early 1990s, the Indian government tried to count them by… Read More

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