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What happens when the controversy over Russia’s infamous troll factory hits home

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Agata Burdonova may marvel on LiveJournal over the fact that she lives just a couple of miles from… Read More

Rover

Pet-sitting startup Rover and ex-‘Baywatch’ actress named in lawsuit after woman’s dog is run over

Update, Monday, 6:30 p.m. PT: This story has been updated throughout with comments from a Rover representative. A Los Angeles… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminds everyone that his company has in-house silicon expertise

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trotted out many of his usual lines during an interview this morning, but, unprompted, also chose… Read More

Stratolaunch taxi tests

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch picks up the pace in runway tests of world’s biggest airplane

Stratolaunch Systems, the space launch venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it put its super-duper-sized carrier plane through… Read More

Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon

The announcement last month that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, tech giant Amazon and JPMorgan Chase were teaming up on a… Read More

Warren Buffett

Flip-phone-using Warren Buffett owns a lot of Apple stock, but he says he’s ‘out of touch’ on iPhone

 He drinks Coca-Cola and eats at Dairy Queen, presumably in part to promote the stocks and companies owned by… Read More

Carewave Medical raising cash for pain relieving wearable, with support from big biotech names

Medical device company Carewave Medical is looking to raise $1 million to support its wearable pain relief technology, according to… Read More

‘Global chaos’ or just a ‘click of the mouse’? Supreme Court set to hear Microsoft vs. US in overseas customer data dispute

A showdown between Microsoft and the U.S. government will take place at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, and it… Read More

Janera Solomon

Saving a seat for tech: Historic theater strives to set the stage for inclusion in booming neighborhood

PITTSBURGH — Janera Solomon was raised in Pittsburgh from the age of 10, and left after college to pursue a… Read More

John Legere & David Wasielewski

Cooking up disruption: T-Mobile CEO John Legere marks two years of popular cooking show ‘Slow Cooker Sunday’

T-Mobile CEO John Legere wants folks to sign up for their wireless service and for the past couple of years… Read More

Samsung unveils Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus with improved cameras, repositioned fingerprint reader

Samsung unveiled the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone, debuting the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus on Sunday at… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 18, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 18, 2018. Read More

Nokia to acquire Unium, will use mesh wireless software to improve in-home WiFi speeds

Nokia today announced that it will acquire Unium, a Seattle-based company that helps improve WiFi speeds via mesh networking technology.… Read More

‘Feeding the spirit, soul and stomach’: Inside Pittsburgh’s famous fish fries and the online map that fuels them

PITTSBURGH — At 5:24 p.m. on the first Friday of Lent, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church runs out of… Read More

SnowWorld melts away pain for burn patients, using virtual reality snowballs

In a white, sterilized room in the burn ward of Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, a physician meticulously… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Tech tangles with politics over net neutrality and government incentives

The tech industry’s entanglements with politics were on full display this week. Washington and other states are fighting the FCC’s… Read More

Pittsburgh goes to court to keep Amazon HQ2 proposal secret

Pittsburgh officials are pushing back on a ruling demanding the city release its proposal for Amazon’s second headquarters. Late Friday… Read More

Pluto VR launches virtual reality communication app on Valve’s Steam gaming marketplace

Seattle startup Pluto VR has launched its first product. The company focuses on applications for people to communicate within virtual reality, and… Read More

MIT President Rafael Reif believes that tech, science and students can change the world

Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? Rafael Reif thinks so. He’s an internationally renowned electrical… Read More

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its… Read More

Photos: 4 massive container cranes arrive in Washington’s Puget Sound by ship

Four unusual seafarers are arriving in Washington’s Puget Sound today after a long journey from China. At 434 feet tall… Read More

Amazon closes at $1,500/share for 1st time, marking another financial milestone for tech giant

Amazon stock closed at exactly $1,500 per share today, hitting that milestone for the first time as the tech giant… Read More

Dropbox makes it official, files to go public later this year with $1B in 2017 revenue

Dropbox, one of the first cloud-based file-storage services to gain traction among consumers and businesses, has filed to go public… Read More

Working Geek: For Avanade’s Pam Maynard, changing time zones is a source of inspiration

Pam Maynard has some sound advice for globetrotting workers. As president of strategic solutions and innovation for Avanade, a Seattle-based… Read More

What happened to Yahoo’s $10M alliance with CMU, and how it could help AI restore our humanity

You know Siri and Alexa. Maybe even Cortana. But have you met Sara? She’s pretty amazing. Sure, she can do… Read More

Microsoft and Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi deepen ties with new AI and cloud partnership

Microsoft and Chinese electronics company Xiaomi agreed to a new strategic partnership focused on artificial and cloud technology, further cementing… Read More

US immigration authorities target outsourcing firms in new H-1B visa memo

The federal government plans to apply more scrutiny to third-party staffing agencies seeking skilled work visas to bring foreign-born workers… Read More

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound… Read More

Google Assistant will soon speak 30 languages and detect which languages people are speaking

Google is doubling down on its digital assistant, adding more languages and working with phone makers to build deeper integrations… Read More

Breathing new life into Seattle’s aged Pacific Science Center by running it like a startup

Is it possible to revitalize a beloved but frumpy 56-year-old organization by running it like a startup? Will Daugherty says… Read More

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