Dallas Cowboys owner would carry Jeff Bezos ‘piggyback’ to get him to buy Seattle Seahawks In the wake of Paul Allen’s death last week, it’s too early to know much about the fate of the… Read More
The moon and meteors light up the night Saturday night’s all right … for skywatching: Tonight’s mostly clear skies over Western Washington should provide a good opportunity to… Read More
Book review: ‘Uberland’ is a timely, accessible analysis of a Silicon Valley innovator My first Uber ride was memorable. It was 2013, less than a year after the launch of UberX, the service… Read More
Bye-bye, BepiColombo: Rocket’s red glare kicks off a marathon mission to Mercury A mission to the planet Mercury got off to a flashy start with tonight’s launch of an Ariane 5 heavy-lift… Read More
Seattle space leaders make their pitch to lawmakers for a new rocket test facility REDMOND, Wash. — One of Congress’ leading Democrats, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, met with leaders of the Seattle area’s space… Read More
Qualtrics files for $200M IPO, continuing the trend of enterprise software companies going public Qualtrics, which sells software that helps companies understand how to keep customers satisfied, is going public. The company, which has… Read More
Geek of the Week: Alexa is music to his ears, but Fred Clarke also conducts business with the Amazon Symphony Orchestra Fred Clarke was a music geek before becoming a tech geek. But now that’s he’s a tech geek at Amazon,… Read More
Inside Niantic’s Seattle-area engineering office, the future of Pokémon Go is taking shape When throngs of Pokémon Go fanatics took over Downtown Bellevue Park two summers ago during the height of the augmented… Read More
12-pound lunar meteorite known as ‘The Moon Puzzle’ sells at auction for over $600K A lunar meteorite discovered in a Northwest African desert in 2017 has sold at auction for $612,500, Boston-based RR Auction… Read More
The buzz is building for Amazon’s HQ2 The buzz is building for Amazon’s highly-touted HQ2, the company’s ambitious plan to build a secondary headquarters that could rival… Read More
Here’s the one key advantage Seattle’s tech ecosystem has over Silicon Valley Silicon Valley may be the startup capital of the world, but Seattle has a leg up when it comes what… Read More
European regulators sign off on Microsoft’s $7.5B acquisition of GitHub Microsoft’s deal to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion cleared a major regulatory hurdle Friday. The European Commission, the regulatory arm of… Read More
In a tiny Seattle apartment, the bed is on the ceiling, and that’s part of what makes it a smart home In a small apartment just a couple blocks from the waterfront in downtown Seattle, windows looking south over the Alaskan… Read More
Paul Allen’s seat sits empty as Portland Trail Blazers honor longtime owner at first home game Paul Allen had many passions, ranging from technology to philanthropy to rock ‘n’ roll. But basketball and his beloved Trail… Read More
NASA puts out the call for science and technology payloads made for the moon NASA is following up on its plan to purchase rides on commercial lunar landers by soliciting ideas for the scientific… Read More
Why Microsoft, IBM, Google and Boeing are taking a giant leap into quantum computing WASHINGTON, D.C. — The small world of quantum physics is a big deal on the frontier of computer science. Microsoft CEO… Read More
TLDR: LA Clippers & Steve Ballmer unveil augmented reality NBA experience Thanks to ReachNow, this show was shot on location at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer… Read More
Microsoft sues ‘prolific distributor’ of pirated Office and Windows software Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a “prolific distributor of infringing Microsoft software,” alleging that a Texas man displayed online… Read More
Grab hires Amazon vet Mark Porter as CTO of ride-hailing operation at growing Seattle R&D center Grab’s presence in Seattle continues to grow as the Southeast Asia ride-hailing giant today announced the hiring of Amazon veteran… Read More
12 years after her trip to space, Anousheh Ansari takes over as the CEO of XPRIZE In 2004, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari helped fund the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. In 2006, she… Read More
Can cell phone games discover your best-fit job? Startup Posed2 wants to match students to careers For Allison Rosenberg, the problem was clear. “Young people have absolutely no idea what they want to do for a… Read More
Boeing and ISS National Lab award $500,000 to boost cancer research in orbit For the fifth year in a row, Boeing and the International Space Station’s U.S. national laboratory are partnering to pay… Read More
How consumer technology is driving smart cities In just a few short years, we’ve come to expect miraculous things from our phones. It’s not enough to order… Read More
Stealthy blockchain startup Core Scientific raising $100M, could reel in as much as $250M Secretive Seattle-area blockchain startup Core Scientific is raising a big $100 million investment round that could grow to $250 million.… Read More
Google turns on integrations with popular services like Box, Dropbox, and others in Gmail Google has made a lot of improvements to Gmail this year as it continues to build out its G Suite… Read More
Seattle-area public transit adds Chariot micro-shuttles in new mobility pilot Commuters in the Seattle region will soon be able to request shuttle rides to and from transit stations using a… Read More
Atlassian’s overhaul of Jira is complete, with a more user-friendly interface for the cloud-native era The process of developing software has gone through incredible changes since 2002, when Atlassian first unveiled its Jira bug-tracking software.… Read More
NextStep Interactive raises $3M to help people displaced by AI and automation find healthcare jobs A new startup called NextStep Interactive has spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and raised $3.15 million… Read More
After struggling with their own drug addictions, these founders just raised $6M for a recovery app Daniela Luzi Tudor and Murphy Jensen know all about recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. After all, they went through… Read More
Tech Moves: Microsoft for Startups founder to open Seattle office for New York’s Quake Capital; OfferUp taps Amazon vet as COO Jim Brisimitzis, a longtime Microsoft leader, is leaving the company to establish a Seattle office for New York-based venture capital… Read More
