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Articles from 2018

Indoor mapping startup Point Inside raises $3.5M to produce ‘spatial intelligence’ data for retailers, airports, others

Seattle-area startup Point Inside has raised a $3.5 million round led by Florida-based private equity investment firm Vestech Partners to… Read More

Virtualization software company Parallels reportedly to be acquired by Canada’s Corel

Privately held technology company Parallels, best known for its Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization software, is reportedly being acquired by… Read More

Led by Switch console, Nintendo reports $250M in U.S. sales over record-breaking weekend

U.S. shoppers provided a nice boost to Nintendo’s balance sheet last weekend. The gaming giant reported Wednesday that consumers spent… Read More

Microsoft marks record year at annual meeting as it rivals Apple for title of most valuable U.S. company

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Microsoft couldn’t have picked a better time for its annual gathering of shareholders. The tech giant is… Read More

Forget autonomous cars. How about an electric, self-driving tricycle for a cheaper, safer alternative?

If you’re entertaining futuristic visions of cruising down the highway in your own self-driving, electric car, Tyler Folsom wants to… Read More

Wealthy tech tycoons funnel gains into low-income ‘Opportunity Zones’ under new tax law

When Congress enacted sweeping changes to the tax code in 2017, Allen Alley paid close attention. The technology investor and former… Read More

737 MAX 8

Investigation of Lion Air 737 crash focuses on faulty sensor: Why wasn’t it fixed?

Right from the start of last month’s fatal flight of a Lion Air 737 MAX jet from Indonesia, pilots were… Read More

The top selling items at Amazon and other retailers this holiday season

From smart speakers to gaming consoles, U.S. consumers spent billions of dollars between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. According to Adobe… Read More

Pop.Up Next prototype

Airbus and Audi demonstrate mini-me version of flying car at Amsterdam show

A flying car developed by Airbus, Audi and Italdesign took a high-profile test flight today at the Amsterdam Drone Week… Read More

With Firecracker, Amazon Web Services reinvents its serverless computing infrastructure and open-source reputation

LAS VEGAS — Early developer reaction to Amazon Web Services’ Firecracker project suggests the company has pulled off a big… Read More

Amazon unveils new service to mine and decode medical records using artificial intelligence

Sorting through and analyzing medical records is incredibly time-consuming, limiting the ability of patients, doctors and administrators to make connections and… Read More

Tech Moves: Remitly CFO lands in the grocery world; Amazon finance VP joins Robinhood

Krish Srinivasan, former CFO of Seattle international money transfer startup Remitly, has found his next gig, and it’s in a… Read More

Washington state Democrats to push for controversial non-compete legislation again

The Washington state legislature plans to take up one of the tech industry’s most hot-button issues next session: non-compete agreements.… Read More

Man fights distracted driving ticket; says police mistook McDonald’s hash brown for cell phone

A driver in Connecticut was not “lovin’ it” when he was pulled over and ticketed by police for distracted driving.… Read More

Radio antenna

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators

LAS VEGAS — Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web… Read More

Geek Style Reboot

Ugly sweaters and geek style reboots: Festive times await at next week’s GeekWire Gala

Ugly sweaters and pampered tech geeks, oh my! The GeekWire Gala — our festive holiday party taking place Thursday, Dec.… Read More

Beast Mobile

How ’bout this action, boss? Marshawn Lynch will pay phone bill for 500 new Beast Mobile customers

My cell phone bill is so expensive I don’t even get to look at it. It just gets paid, somehow,… Read More

Microsoft Azure multi-factor authentication bug strikes again, causing issues for Office 365 users

For the second time in two weeks, Microsoft Azure’s multi-factor authentication system is down. ZDNet on Tuesday noted the outage, which prevents some… Read More

Amazon sets new holiday shopping records over a long Thanksgiving weekend and Cyber Monday

It’s beginning to look a lot like a record Amazon Christmas, if the start of the holiday shopping season is… Read More

Amazon Web Services will now let companies set up internal IT-approved sets of cloud services in AWS Marketplace

LAS VEGAS – A lot of companies moving into cloud computing like to slow-play that transition, working with long-trusted partners… Read More

Network effects: Amazon Web Services touts improvements to its networking services that should boost app performance

LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services has built a state-of-the-art network around the world in order to serve its cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads

LAS VEGAS — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale… Read More

First InSight picture from Mars

NASA’s InSight lander touches down on Mars and sends gloriously gritty pictures

REDMOND, Wash. — NASA’s Mars InSight lander touched down on a heavenly Martian plain Monday, marking the first successful landing… Read More

Reports about gene-edited babies give birth to investigations in China and U.S.

Multiple investigations are being sought in the wake of reports that a Chinese laboratory facilitated the birth of twin girls… Read More

The Oatmeal's tribute to InSight

From The Oatmeal to the space station, Mars InSight lander’s fans are all a-Twitter

Today’s smashingly successful touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars was a cause for celebration on Twitter. There was good-natured snark… Read More

Microsoft on the cusp of passing Apple to become the most-valuable U.S. company

Someone time traveling from five years ago might not believe it, but it’s 2018 and Microsoft is poised to surpass… Read More

FDA approves unique, DNA-targeting cancer drug, potentially changing care for thousands

Today, Connor Pearcy is an average 7-year-old boy. He loves dinosaurs, Pokemon and tetherball — so much so that the… Read More

Microsoft holiday ad captures joy of video games and inclusion as boy uses Xbox Adaptive Controller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v70Fu2WU8-w When Microsoft created the Xbox Adaptive Controller, it set out to bring all the joy of video games to… Read More

United Airlines set to begin Denver and SF flights from Paine Field near Seattle in March 2019

United Airlines has become the second — and for now, final — airline to start selling tickets for commercial flights… Read More

My parents are wowed by Amazon, LimeBikes and more as longtime visitors return to big, new Seattle

Getting together with family during the holidays — especially with members who visit from across the country — is a… Read More

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