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Articles from 2018

Microsoft’s fiscal 2019 already ranks among its biggest years for acquisition spending

Just four months into Microsoft’s fiscal year, the company has spent more on acquisitions than it has in many entire… Read More

Privacy and the public library: NYPL’s chief digital officer looks to raise awareness in Seattle visit

If you want to see how a public library adopts technology at scale, consider heading to New York City. There,… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble is back at work after breakdown

The Hubble Space Telescope is doing science again, three weeks after going out of service due to a gyro failure.… Read More

Develop video games in Seattle? A panel ponders recruitment, stability, and a lack of connection

While Seattle has its benefits for the games industry culture — such as relative stability and plentiful job opportunities —… Read More

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Universal facts, misinformation and technology: Five insights into the future of news

The rise of the Internet was only the beginning of the disruption for the news business. The past ten years… Read More

PI3 plasma injector

Canadian government invests $38M in General Fusion to boost energy research

The Canadian government says it’s investing $37.5 million (49.3 million Canadian dollars) in General Fusion, a British Columbia company that… Read More

Raksha Balasubramanyam

Geek of the Week: Raksha Balasubramanyam learns fine art of helping Skytap clients adjust to the cloud

Raksha Balasubramanyam is a first-generation technology professional, artist and “connector of poeple” whose interest in tech was sparked in part by… Read More

Hanford site

Hanford sounds the all-clear after steam sparks alarm at nuclear waste site

Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state were told to take cover for several hours today when… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch adds a new verse to the same old song by developing a karaoke game

Twitch is getting into the karaoke world with what it calls a new category of game by the name of… Read More

BFR landing on Mars

Who will get to Mars first? Oddsmakers favor SpaceX and Blue Origin over NASA

If sending humans to Mars is a race, which team is favored to win? Bookies give the nod to Elon… Read More

Microsoft defends bid for $10B Pentagon cloud contract amid criticism over government use of technology

Microsoft will not pull out of the competition for a $10 billion cloud contract for the Department of Defense, despite… Read More

Virtual interior designer Stylyze raises cash to transform how shoppers find home decor, apparel

Do you ever get that feeling when you walk into a beautiful home, and wish you had the magic touch… Read More

Celgene CEO: Treating cancer is becoming ‘ironically easy’ — now the problem is affordability

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Cancer treatments have improved astronomically in the past few decades. But as more patients overcome the disease,… Read More

The cost of the cloud: Amazon takes a breath, while Microsoft and Google plunge ahead

Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google… Read More

Vulcan Capital invests in Fortnite creator Epic Games as part of epic $1.25B round

Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular battle royale game Fortnite, has raised a massive $1.25 billion funding round, and… Read More

‘Christ is arriving in a Hyundai’: In perfect Uber alert, it appears Jesus has finally taken the wheel

Plenty of people believe Christ is coming back, someday. Not sure how many thought he’d show up driving an Uber.… Read More

Amazon HQ2: Here are the GeekWire team’s picks, and guesses on the exact day the news will hit

At many offices around the country, employees engage in March Madness basketball pools, or annual Oscar picks. At GeekWire, we… Read More

Microsoft completes $7.5B GitHub acquisition, says user base has grown to 31M developers

Microsoft just completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, officially taking ownership of what it describes as the world’s largest… Read More

Genneve to launch unique telehealth service for women experiencing menopause

A startup that launched two years ago to sell lubricants and provide information for menopausal women is expanding to become… Read More

Simulated moon dirt

Crowdfunding campaign lets you snag simulated moon dirt — but handle with care

Wanna buy some fake moon dirt? Off Planet Research, which manufactures loads of the stuff, is making it available for… Read More

Expedia acquires 2 startups that make it easier to list apartments on HomeAway

Expedia Group acquired a pair of companies that make it easier to list apartments on short-term rental sites like Airbnb… Read More

While some Amazon HQ2 candidates get second dates, other cities are waiting by the phone

Reports of Amazon officials revisiting select regions in the running for the company’s second headquarters are trickling in, leaving some… Read More

Amazon tops 600K worldwide employees for the 1st time, a 13% jump from a year ago

The number of Amazonians continues to rise, and the tech giant has hit a milestone of more than 600,000 employees… Read More

Amazon Web Services revenue up 46 percent to $6.7B, operating income up 77 percent

It sure does look like Amazon Web Services is going to turn into a nice business for Amazon. RELATED: Amazon… Read More

Amazon posts record profits again, but stock drops as revenue of $56.6B falls short of expectations

Amazon came in shy of Wall Street’s revenue expectations, but for the second quarter in a row posted record profits.… Read More

SpaceX Starship

SpaceX is reportedly looking for a $500M loan — and a few good Seattle baristas

Bloomberg News is quoting unnamed sources as saying that SpaceX is seeking to borrow $500 million in the leveraged loan… Read More

UPS launches cargo e-bike delivery in Seattle, returning to bicycle courier origins a century later

More than a century ago, the company now known as UPS started as a simple courier service in Seattle. A… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open its first data center in Africa, with service from Cape Town in 2020

In around a year and a half, Amazon Web Services will open its first cloud computing region in Africa, another… Read More

Curious about whether robots can be curious? University of Washington joins initiative to find out

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but will it make for a more intriguing robot? That’s the question researchers are… Read More

GeekWire is hitting the road: We’re headed to Renton next week!

The hometown of Boeing’s 737. The birthplace of Magic: The Gathering. And the final resting spot of Jimi Hendrix. GeekWire… Read More

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