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Articles from 2018

Stranger Things season 2

‘Stranger Things’ have happened: Netflix pitches fictional TV town as Amazon HQ2 possibility

Seattle grey is one thing. Amazon probably doesn’t want a giant, menacing, black, monster cloud thing hanging over its eventual… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Discuss.io seeks senior software engineer to evolve cloud-based video conferencing

Discuss.io is targeting a very specific niche: Making it easier and more affordable for companies around the globe to do market research.… Read More

SR 99 tunnel

Watch: New time-lapse video shows lower roadway being pieced together in Seattle tunnel

The road untraveled is starting to look like an actual road. Deep beneath Seattle, the SR 99 tunnel project continues… Read More

Oren Etzioni

ClusterOne AI venture is coming to Seattle to warm up in Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator

A California-based AI startup called ClusterOne is moving its headquarters to Seattle to become the latest venture to benefit from… Read More

Zillow launches ‘3D Home’ feature in Phoenix to give buyers more immersive property tour

Come on in. Look around! Home shoppers in Phoenix have that option in a technically savvy new way as Seattle-based… Read More

Amazon

GeekWire Vote: D.C.? Atlanta? Pittsburgh? Boston? Do you know where Amazon will go?

Amazon is no doubt weighing plenty of factors as it crunches the numbers on the 20 cities it named Thursday… Read More

Amazon construction
Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Shortlist surprises, shoe-ins and controversy in Amazon’s search for HQ2

Amazon has announced a shortlist of 20 cities that are in the running to land its $5 billion second headquarters —… Read More

US Capitol

Amazon loves data, so here’s a look at the numbers on the 20 cities to make the HQ2 shortlist

The nation’s capital looks like a favorite to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters. Amazon showed 218 cities, counties, states… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs raises another $15M to fuel operations; studio has spun out 9 startups

Pioneer Square Labs has raised an additional $15 million to support the growth of its startup studio model that spun… Read More

Amazon campus

Pick a city, any city: Here’s what Amazon workers said, or didn’t say, about final HQ2 hopefuls

Midwest charm. Southern hospitality. East Coast bravado. Don’t expect any of those geographic personality traits when you’re attempting to ask… Read More

Intel admits that patches for Meltdown and Spectre are causing reboots on a wider variety of systems

As part of its quest to ensure “transparency” after initially insisting that the fixes for design flaws in its chips… Read More

Ranking Amazon’s HQ2 short list: Analysis of the top 20, and which one has the best shot at the top prize

I’m not a professional oddsmaker, but Amazon’s announcement today that it has chosen 20 cities — yes, 20! — to… Read More

Amazon

Reaction to Amazon’s HQ2 short list: Notable omissions, surprise picks and internet snark

RELATED: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize Amazon this… Read More

Amazon HQ

May HQ2 be ever in your favor: Amazon’s new short list pits 20 cities against each other in a risky game

Amazon’s astounding decision to establish a second and equal corporate headquarters outside of Seattle simultaneously made the company an object… Read More

Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize

Amazon has selected 20 cities to move to the next phase in its HQ2 selection process, the latest twist in… Read More

Microsoft apps to be embedded into edtech powerhouse PowerSchool’s ‘Unified Classroom’

Microsoft is making yet another push into the classroom. But this time, it’s using the buddy system, today announcing a… Read More

In new book, Microsoft cautions humanity to develop AI ethics guidelines now

It’s 2038 and — like most businesses these days — a tech company is using artificial intelligence to scan job… Read More

Seattle’s WatchGuard Technologies snaps up Percipient Networks to bolster its security services

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has acquired Percipient Networks, maker of a security product oriented around DNS servers, for an undisclosed… Read More

This is out of controller: Nintendo’s Labo uses DIY cardboard kits to Switch things up a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=2UmRhLA3Qzk Well, we didn’t see that one coming. Nintendo today followed up on a tease of a “new interactive experience”… Read More

Apple Spaceship

Apple HQ2? Not quite, but the tech giant has plans for a new campus — does Seattle have room?

The “Spaceship” has barely taken off and Apple is already talking about landing another new campus someplace else. Could the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Lubn offers an easily installed, smart key alternative to Amazon Key

We’ve come a long way from faux rocks with a hidden compartment for house keys, and Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Lubn… Read More

Steve Guggenheimer

How Microsoft is working AI into its software without you even knowing it

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Don’t expect Microsoft’s consumer software to hype its artificial-intelligence features. For the most part, the AI smarts are… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch scoops up executives from Pandora, Slack and Rubicon to bolster leadership

Twitch, the game streaming service owned by Amazon, snagged three key executives with experience at many of the world’s top… Read More

Amazon Air

Prime photo opportunity: Amazon’s Ryan Barta focuses on aviation, outdoors and photography

Ryan Barta loves flying in the Pacific Northwest because of the mountain views and other natural beauty afforded by being… Read More

David Harbour

‘Stranger Things’ star says he’ll officiate a fan’s wedding ceremony — if she gets enough retweets

“Stranger Things” star David Harbour is continuing his social media love affair with fans. The actor, who plays Chief Hopper… Read More

Seattle and Portland are more interested in Trump impeachment than any other U.S. cities, search data shows

Residents of Seattle and Portland Googled “impeachment” more than people living in any other U.S. city at the end of… Read More

Juno Therapeutics stock surges 50% as Celgene is reportedly in talks to buy the company

New Jersey-based biotech giant Celgene is in talks to buy Seattle-based biotech Juno Therapeutics, according to a report in the… Read More

Microsoft doubles down on Surface Book 2, expanding availability to 17 more countries around the world

It’s been two months since Microsoft released the second generation of its Surface Book laptop-tablet hybrid, and now it is… Read More

New security service from Cloudflare hopes to kill the VPN once and for all

Remote workers or business travelers have long been familiar with the travails of working through virtual-private network software, but Cloudflare… Read More

Seattle’s Usermind raises $23.5M as demand for its marketing tech grows

Usermind, which makes software that helps customers pay closer attention to the needs, wants, and rants of their customers, has… Read More

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