Tech Moves: Leadership changes at Tune and Convoy; LevelTen adds new exec; and more Jennifer Wong, formerly Tune‘s VP of Marketing, has joined on-demand trucking startup Convoy as the company’s head of marketing. Tune… Read More
Pittsburgh Profile: The pleasant surprise that greeted ex-Amazon exec Mark Stabingas upon his homecoming After more than 15 years away — most spent working for Amazon in Seattle — Mark Stabingas returned to Pittsburgh… Read More
Southwest Airlines announces Everett flights, filling up Paine Field’s capacity Southwest Airlines says it’ll add up to five flights to the daily departure schedule for the yet-to-be-completed passenger terminal at… Read More
Bill Gates and Roger Federer will play tennis again to raise money for charity, this time in the Bay Area It’s Bill Gates vs. Roger Federer, round two. The Microsoft co-founder and tennis legend are getting together on the court… Read More
Axon expanding Seattle office as police body camera maker continues to grow Police body camera maker Axon is expanding its Seattle office to accommodate a growing headcount. The company said it recently… Read More
Pittsburgh forges a new future, remaking iconic steel town into a modern innovation factory Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing… Read More
Marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings raises $60M, total funding eclipses $200M Investors are seeing green when it comes to the future of the marijuana industry. Seattle-based marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings… Read More
Another huge round for Snowflake: Bob Muglia’s database company raises $263M valued at $1.5B Longtime tech executive Bob Muglia might just be warming up. The CEO of Snowflake Computing has closed another huge funding… Read More
‘Kill Bill’ Shatner? Video spoof touts Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated ‘Star Trek’ What would an R-rated “Star Trek” movie directed by Quentin Tarantino look like? We may find out someday soon: The… Read More
Chinese team clones monkeys from fetal cells, raising qualms about human cloning Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai have produced identical primate clones using the same… Read More
Tech Moves: Amazon hires top doc; Geir Hansen leaves SVB; Acumatica board adds ex-Microsoft Business Solutions chief Amazon is continuing to bolster its health care game. The company recently hired Dr. Martin Levine, a longtime Seattle doctor… Read More
Podcast Geared Up Podcast: The tech behind Amazon Go, Xbox Game Pass ups the ante, and a chance to win an in-car Alexa device Amazon Go sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons: A fully automated convenience store that tracks what you grab… Read More
F5 adds four new senior executives and beats Wall Street earnings expectations After a rough year, F5 Networks got off to a good start Wednesday, reporting earnings that beat Wall Street expectations… Read More
$2.36B acquisition of Wave Broadband closes, forming nation’s 6th largest cable company A $2.36 billion deal to form the sixth largest cable company in the U.S. by combining Kirkland, Wash. broadband provider… Read More
Meet Fred, an energetic 82-year-old in Seattle who is a positive force behind the wheel for Uber Fred likes to talk to people. As an Uber driver, the 82-year-old Seattle native gets to do plenty of talking… Read More
In call with Newark, Amazon reportedly says it wants to keep next phase of HQ2 contest out of public eye A top Amazon official reportedly told more than a dozen Newark, N.J., representatives what to expect during the remainder of… Read More
Congress wants to know how Big Tech managed the Meltdown/Spectre embargo period That didn’t take long: the leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee within the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters… Read More
Scientists fine-tune the formula for finding the signature of life in alien atmospheres Is the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere of an alien world the only sure-fire sign that life is present?… Read More
SpaceX test-fires Falcon Heavy rocket’s 27 engines amid clouds of steam and thunder SpaceX test-fired all 27 Merlin rocket engines on its mammoth Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time today, throwing up… Read More
Pittsburgh Profile: Robotics expert Sidd Srinivasa on his love for the Steel City, and his leap to Seattle Very few people are in a better position to explain Pittsburgh to a bunch of Seattle-based technology journalists than Siddhartha… Read More
Amazon lobbying spending jumped 16% in 2017 as tech titans ramped up efforts to influence federal policy Amazon spent nearly $13 million on lobbying the U.S. government last year, a 16 percent increase over the company’s lobbying… Read More
Rocket Lab unveils ‘Humanity Star’ – a shiny satellite you can see in space In addition to launching three Earth-watching satellites, Rocket Lab has sent up a satellite you can watch from Earth: a… Read More
Seattle startup vet Jesse Proudman, who sold last venture to IBM, unveils new cryptocurrency company Strix Leviathan Seattle entrepreneur Jesse Proudman — who recently quit his job at IBM to launch a new cryptocurrency startup — is… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrate female entrepreneurs; Laser tag happy hour; and more The #MeToo movement was one of the defining forces of 2017, changing the conversation around the sexual harassment and discrimination… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Spry offers PR services via the gig economy, ordered through its app The gig economy already lets you order a taxi ride, dog sitting or rented baby gear. Now you can add… Read More
Shiftboard raises $11.5M for employee schedule management platform, 17 years after launching More than 17 years after launching, Shiftboard today announced a $11.5 million Series A investment round. Founded in 2002, Shiftboard… Read More
It doesn’t take a data scientist to know which title tops Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America, again Data scientists — or people who hope to become one — are collecting a lot of data about how great… Read More
Spacewalkers put new hand on robot arm News Brief: NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle spent nearly seven and a half hours on a spacewalk… Read More
Amazon Web Services catches Sqrrl, a security startup founded by ex-NSA staffers Cloud security is going to be an even more important topic this year than ever, thanks to the Meltdown and… Read More
Portland science-fiction great Ursula K. Le Guin mourned in the Northwest and beyond Science fiction and fantasy writers around the Pacific Northwest and around the world are paying tribute to award-winning author Ursula… Read More
