Articles from 2018 – Page 36 of 161

Amazon’s other brick-and-mortar move: Inside the growing network of ‘AWS Loft’ co-working spaces

SAN FRANCISCO — The co-working space at 525 Market St. looks, at first glance, like many others in this city and… Read More

Capping a year of change, Chef taps former Impinj CFO Evan Fein as its new CFO

With the appointment of three new executives, Chef believes it is most of the way through a year-long strategy shift… Read More

Sonic-boom UFO show! SpaceX launches satellite, lands rocket booster in California

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket executed its first on-land touchdown on the West Coast tonight after sending Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A satellite… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 30, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 30, 2018. Read More

Watch: Ring CEO on how he kept going after ‘Shark Tank’ rejection and how he feels returning to show

“The drive home sucked,” Jamie Siminoff said rather matter of factly this week when asked what he was thinking five… Read More

Working Geek: Sage Bionetworks’ Lara Mangravite brings scientists together to speed discovery

Scientists aren’t known for playing well with others. After all, their world is set up to reward individual accomplishments through… Read More

Behind the scenes: Kevin Durant’s epic return proves booming Seattle is ready for the NBA again

Fans lined up under grey skies outside KeyArena. A buzz began to build as the smell of popcorn and hot… Read More

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Everything you need to know about Amazon’s $15 min. wage and the new app backed by Bill Gates

In a surprise move, Amazon announced this week that it will raise its internal minimum wage to $15 an hour… Read More

Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019

NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are… Read More

Ex-Bungie engineers aim to steal your heart through a sword-wielding VR mouse called Quill

More than a week after my almost-10-year-old daughter met Quill, she’s still talking about her. They spent only about an… Read More

Gender expert at University of Washington thought her ‘genius grant’ was a prank

When University of Washington psychology professor Kristina Olson got the call telling her she’d be receiving one of the MacArthur… Read More

Lawsuit accuses Impinj of defrauding investors, alleging company overhyped demand for connected RFID tags

Impinj had a stellar start to life as a public company, posting several strong quarters in a row, but a… Read More

Tech Moves: Make.TV appoints Bay Area exec as COO; Gap adds Zillow COO to board; and more

Make.TV, the Seattle-based maker of a cloud-based video management platform, added Bay Area executive Tricia Iboshi as its new chief… Read More

Another strong IPO for SaaS investors, as open-source search provider Elastic enjoys huge pop on opening day

Shares in Elastic, a software-as-a-service company that helps other companies find, sort, and analyze their internal data, soared Friday in… Read More

Watch: Google UX design director Kat Holmes talks ‘mismatched interactions’ and inclusive design at GeekWire Summit

Inclusion is a buzzy word these days for businesses intent on conveying to people that they are a place for… Read More

MASCOT lander sends back otherworldly views of asteroid Ryugu’s rugged terrain

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe and the German-French MASCOT lander have teamed up to send back amazing views of an asteroid… Read More

Best burger in Seattle? In Amazon land, Shake Shack cooks up a winner with help from startup Crowd Cow

Update, Wednesday, 12:25 p.m. PT: Shake Shack announced that the Seattle location will open Thursday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m.… Read More

Democrats draft an ‘Internet Bill of Rights’ to regulate Big Tech

Democrats in the House of Representatives are promising to push for federal regulation of tech companies if they retake the House… Read More

Travel apartments startup Stay Alfred raises $47M to fuel nationwide expansion

Stay Alfred, a Spokane, Wash. startup that rents out downtown apartments and turns them into short-term rentals, has raised $47… Read More

Pebblebee’s Finder tracking device now selling at Costco, putting little startup on path for big growth

Costco shoppers can find a wide array of items in one of the big-box retailer’s more than 500 U.S. locations.… Read More

Zunum Aero picks Safran to build engine turbines for future hybrid electric aircraft

Zunum Aero has selected France’s Safran Helicopter Engines to provide a new-generation engine turbine for its hybrid-to-electric airplane, due for… Read More

Watch Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg take some ‘stick time’ in a T-X training jet

One of the things I learned about Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is that he loves to fly the aircraft his… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida

Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has struck a deal with Florida’s spaceport authority to… Read More

TLDR: Amazon ends warehouse worker bonuses & stock awards

Today’s featured stories Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Nintendo plans new… Read More

Secretive startup Receptor Life Sciences raises $7.5M for therapies based on ‘plant extracts’

Secretive biotechnology company Receptor Life Sciences has raised a funding round totaling just over $7.5 million, according to a filing with… Read More

Sneak peek: Latest addition to Google’s future Seattle campus revealed in new renderings

Google’s newest Seattle office building, an expansion of the already enormous campus under construction in the South Lake Union neighborhood,… Read More

Online insurance marketplace QuoteWizard sells to LendingTree in massive $300M deal

Insurance comparison marketplace QuoteWizard has been acquired by LendingTree for $300 million, and the price tag could rise even more should the… Read More

U.S.-Russian trio returns to Earth from space station on Sputnik anniversary

What better way to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the start of the Space Age than to see the successful… Read More

2018 GeekWire Summit recap: The future of innovation at our biggest tech conference ever

Flying cars, virtual reality gloves, rock-picking robots, and the future of companies such as Boeing, eBay, Amazon, Redfin, and Nintendo.… Read More

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 17-hour survey

A robotic probe the size of a shoebox set itself down on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 180 million miles… Read More