Qumulo co-founder and CTO Peter Godman has left the company Peter Godman, co-founder and chief technology officer at storage startup Qumulo, is no longer with the company, GeekWire has learned.… Read More
After midterm power shift, White House officials say tech transformation will go on In the wake of Tuesday’s power-shifting midterm elections, the White House plans to stay the course in tech policy and… Read More
Amazon wins in shopper satisfaction for buying groceries online, but Walmart is more popular A new national survey shows it’s a two-store race when it comes to buying groceries online, but there’s no clear… Read More
Russians reboot space station computer A balky computer system is working again on the International Space Station, thanks to a reboot, the Russian space agency… Read More
Project management company LiquidPlanner, now profitable, raises more cash, 12 years after launch Since taking over as CEO of LiquidPlanner last year, Todd Humphrey has helped the 12-year-old project management company increase revenue… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa delves deeper into the Windows universe with new ‘Alexa for PC’ app Amazon today unveiled a new Alexa for PCs app that will bring the digital assistant to a lot more Windows… Read More
Google wants to make it easier for cloud customers to find AI tools that fit their needs Google plans to introduce a central repository for machine-learning tools Thursday, with the aim of making it easier for companies… Read More
Tech Moves: Amplero founder tapped to lead Zillow AI efforts; new Tesla chair replaces Elon Musk Olly Downs, who previously founded AI-powered marketing startup Amplero, has joined Zillow Group as the company’s new senior director of… Read More
Seattle’s next unicorn? Valve and Disney vets raise $5M to build online VR games at BigBox VR “I’m going to teach you how to fly.” This was no ordinary tech demo. I strapped on a headset, grabbed… Read More
AI2’s Semantic Scholar spices up academic search engine with blogs, videos and more You wouldn’t use an academic search engine to look for cat videos — but if there’s a video with cats… Read More
Microsoft teams with Answer ALS, makes $1M donation to ambitious big data project Several years ago, former football player Steve Gleason came to Microsoft with a challenge: develop technology to ease the effects… Read More
International booksellers end strike against Amazon’s AbeBooks after company reverses stand A strike by international rare book dealers to withhold their books from Amazon-owned AbeBooks is over, after an organization that… Read More
Former Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson leaves Jeff Bezos’ space venture Rob Meyerson, who was the president of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture until this year, says he’s… Read More
After a broken leg and blood clot, this entrepreneur built a portable recumbent exercise bike A broken leg doesn’t typically lead to startup idea creation. But that’s what happened to Michele Mehl. The Seattle-based entrepreneur… Read More
Egan Airships floats a sales campaign to get its Plimp hybrid aircraft off the ground What do you get when you cross an airship and an airplane? If you’re willing to spend more than $4… Read More
Madrona Venture Labs picks clinical management startup Invio as first company in new accelerator Invio, a Seattle startup that helps speed up clinical trials for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, announced this week that it is… Read More
Geek on the Street: What is the greatest invention of all time, and what would you invent? The toaster oven. Post-It notes. And, uh, plumbing. That’s what people said when asked their pick for the greatest invention… Read More
High-tech healthcare: Behind-the-scenes inside Kaiser Permanente’s automated lab and pharmacy Automation technology is helping fill prescription orders and diagnose patient specimens much faster and safer than ever before. As part… Read More
Ford reportedly buying Spin as big transportation companies seek new mobility toehold Ford is acquiring scooter startup Spin, according to a report from Axios citing anonymous sources. The deal, which one source… Read More
Avalara posts $70M in revenue in 2nd quarter as a public company, responds to patent lawsuit Avalara cruised past Wall Street expectations in its second quarterly update since going public in June. The Seattle sales tax… Read More
Samsung unveils its first foldable smartphone The era of the foldable smartphone is coming. Samsung today gave a sneak peak of its long-rumored foldable device that… Read More
With Dems in control of the House, now is the time for states to pressure Congress to act on privacy Editor’s note: Alex Alben is the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of Washington. He discussed privacy, data, and smart… Read More
U.S. Army vets and Harvard classmates raise cash for AI-powered threat response startup Stabilitas Two former U.S. Army vets who were classmates at West Point and Harvard just raised more cash for their security… Read More
Ex-Microsoft employee sues company and former manager for gender discrimination A former Microsoft employee has filed a lawsuit against the company, as well as her former manager and an additional… Read More
My kids sat in front of Amazon’s first-ever printed toy catalog: ‘Whoa! … Is everything in here free?’ Forty or so years after I did the same thing with a Sears holiday catalog, and about a month after… Read More
GeekWire Gala: Early-bird prices end Thursday for our geeky holiday bash You made it through the mid-term madness. Now, it’s time to have some fun. Our annual GeekWire Gala — one… Read More
Why San Francisco’s big business tax for homeless relief succeeded after Seattle’s crumbled Two tech hubs, two crises of homelessness, two taxes on big business, two very different outcomes. San Francisco voters on… Read More
Working Geek: UW computer scientist Jennifer Mankoff channeled adversity into a career path Jennifer Mankoff faced a slate of challenges that could have derailed her academic aspirations. It started with a repetitive stress… Read More
Urbanist Richard Florida on what splitting Amazon HQ2 means for cities: ‘It never was about a second headquarters’ In many ways, reports that Amazon will split its ballyhooed second headquarters between two cities came as a shock this… Read More
In wake of 737 MAX crash, Boeing issues bulletin to address erroneous sensor input Boeing says it has issued an operations manual bulletin to address concerns about erroneous readings from a sensor that has… Read More
