Amazon Go expands to San Francisco, with one store open and another coming soon Amazon Go is live in San Francisco. The first San Francisco location of the cashier-less convenience store concept opened today… Read More
Igneous rolls out new hybrid cloud services for managing large amounts of unstructured data Igneous Systems plans to introduce two new products Tuesday for hybrid cloud customers working with massive data sets, in yet… Read More
Seattle’s Versive acquired by eSentire for its AI-powered security analysis platform After several twists and turns along the way during its six years working on artificial intelligence technology, Versive has been… Read More
What’s next for Terry Myerson: Former Microsoft exec takes on dual roles with Madrona and Carlyle Terry Myerson, the longtime Microsoft executive who most recently led the Windows and Devices Group, is joining Madrona Venture Group… Read More
Led by ex-Amazon advertising leader, Gradient raises $3.5M to help brands optimize presence on Amazon Bobby Figueroa knows what brands should do to optimize their presence on Amazon’s marketplace, perhaps better than almost anyone. The product… Read More
Tableau pledges $100M to solve global challenges with data as it unveils new product roadmap Tableau Software today committed to donating $100 million in software, training and funding through its philanthropic arm over the next… Read More
Naveen Jain explores the entrepreneurial frontier in ‘Moonshots’ book and business BELLEVUE, Wash. — Seattle-area entrepreneur Naveen Jain is a big fan of moonshots — in part because one of his ventures,… Read More
REI closing to #OptOutside again on Black Friday while pledging $1M to study benefits of outdoors While millions of shoppers rush indoors to their favorite stores in search of holiday deals the day after Thanksgiving, REI… Read More
Billion-dollar trucking startup Convoy to open first office outside of Seattle Atlanta is on the short list for Amazon HQ2. But the Georgia capital has already landed the east coast hub… Read More
TLDR: Another Facebook exec leaves, Avalara is sued, and global startup founders pitch in Seattle Facebook keeps losing executives from its acquisitions. The latest: Brendan Iribe, co-founder and one-time CEO of Oculus, is heading for… Read More
Entrepreneurs from around the world pitch their startups in Seattle for the chance to present in D.C. An international group of entrepreneurs gathered at Seattle City Hall Friday afternoon to pitch companies they’re building around the world… Read More
Bye bye rainy Bellevue? T-Mobile CEO John Legere tells Sprint workers he’d love to live in Kansas Sounds like the host of “Slow Cooker Sunday” might have a thing for Kansas City barbecue. T-Mobile CEO John Legere,… Read More
Exato Games’ ‘Elo Hell’ is a video game sitcom about e-sports athletes, and it’s about the struggle A term that describes video game frustration has itself inspired a game from a Seattle-based independent studio. Elo Hell is a new… Read More
Lawsuit accuses Avalara of pilfering key sales tax automation tech from inventor A tax accountant has sued Avalara, accusing the Seattle sales tax automation company of misappropriating technology he developed and using… Read More
Pale Red Dot: NASA’s MarCO probe snaps first picture of Mars taken by a CubeSat Mars looks like nothing more than a reddish speck in a picture captured by one of NASA’s twin MarCO spacecraft,… Read More
First look: SAP unveils real-time stadium operations analytics tool, in use with San Francisco 49ers SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Technology isn’t just improving athletic performance or changing the way we watch sports. It’s also being… Read More
A slide presentation fit for the undead: ‘Game of Thrones’ White Walkers turn to Google Chromebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A21K5zBrP4 It takes a lot of teamwork to manage an army of the undead, breach the Wall and set out… Read More
Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe is leaving Facebook, the latest in a series of founder departures Brendan Iribe, co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, is leaving Facebook’s virtual reality arm, marking another key founder departure from… Read More
‘You Are Jeff Bezos’ game lets you spend the Amazon CEO’s billions — and it’s not that easy The current Mega Millions frenzy that has everyone running around buying lottery tickets and dreaming of what they’d do with… Read More
Working Geek: Dr. Christopher Murray’s mission to make the world healthier through better data There’s a Seattle-based enterprise that has a worldwide reach that few organizations can match. And no, we’re not talking about… Read More
GitHub recovering after a widespread outage caused by networking and database issues Software teams were stymied late Sunday and early Monday by a widespread GitHub outage that prevented developers from using the… Read More
Little girl tries repeatedly to get Alexa to play song, before mom launches cute ‘Baby Shark’ attack One of these days, cute Alexa videos will probably jump the proverbial shark. We’re not there yet, because we need… Read More
From pain to memory, researchers investigate how VR can make things go better in the real world COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Can being in the middle of an opera take your mind off pain? Here at the University… Read More
Pulumi raises $15M in Series A funding, launches its SaaS multicloud app deployment service It didn’t take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was… Read More
AI is integral to the future of healthcare — but for now, so are humans Artificial intelligence has been around for half a century, but it has only recently become a real player in the… Read More
‘CourtVision’ Review: We tested Steve Ballmer’s attempt to transform the NBA viewing experience LOS ANGELES — Augmented reality on sports broadcasts isn’t new. In fact, there’s a gold standard: the first-down line for football… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 14, 2018 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 14, 2018. Read More
Interview: ‘Bad Blood’ author John Carreyrou on Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal, a ‘what not to do’ guide for startups It’s probably one of the most salacious stories to ever emerge from Silicon Valley. Unicorn startup Theranos, once valued at… Read More
Q&A: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on the biggest problem in real estate, entitled CEOs and ‘America’s real enemy’ Glenn Kelman has been trying to fix the ever-frustrating process of buying a house for more than 15 years as… Read More
Crowds pack Amazon Spheres for a whiff and glimpse of ultra-rare blooming of corpse flower A giant flower that takes seven years to bloom and smells like rotting flesh was Seattle’s hottest ticket on Saturday… Read More
