Articles from 2018

Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage

Not all Amazon employees are happy with the company raising their wages to at least $15 an hour. That’s because… Read More

Nintendo plans new Switch hardware for 2019 release, report says

Nintendo is gearing up to release a new version of the smash hit Switch console as soon as next summer,… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Apple dispute report that China placed spy chips in some of their servers

A blockbuster Bloomberg report that Chinese spies infiltrated the networks of Amazon Web Services and Apple was met with unusually… Read More

D-Wave’s quantum computing cloud service is now available for developer experiments

After years of hype about the potential of quantum computing, D-Wave is about to let mainstream developers finally take its… Read More

TLDR: GeekWire Summit Highlights — Nintendo, eBay, Boeing

Today’s featured stories How Nintendo learned from a Wii U disappointment to create the popular Switch console eBay CEO: ‘I… Read More

Wellness tech is helpful, but ‘don’t get too obsessed’ with the numbers, biotech leader says

The number of tools and gadgets aimed at health has skyrocketed in the past few years. That technology can be… Read More

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub launches open-access database of mouse cells to fuel research

Mice are the quintessential research animals. Over decades, these unassuming creatures have played a role in almost every advance in modern… Read More

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg lays out his vision for space airplanes and aerospace traffic system

A decade from now, Boeing will still be primarily known as an airplane company, the company’s CEO says. But some… Read More

Silicon Valley VC Aileen Lee offers advice to Seattle: Make technology more equitable

As both an entrepreneur and investor, Aileen Lee has lived and worked in the heart of SIlicon Valley for the… Read More

Inventions We Love: High-tech jeans, haptic VR gloves and a way to help self-driving cars see better

Various companies dealing in software and services may try to steal the spotlight when it comes to Seattle’s tech scene.… Read More

Amazon investor and activist Nick Hanauer: ‘PR stunts are easy and cheap. Significantly raising wages for workers is not’

Just before Amazon announced it will raise employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, one of the company’s first investors… Read More

Updated: Big data stalwarts Cloudera, Hortonworks to merge, Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly to run new company

Cloudera and Hortonworks have been symbolic of the “big data” era as two of the most successful companies built around… Read More

Boeing CEO: First operational self-flying cars are less than 5 years out

Autonomous flying cars have always seemed like a futuristic innovation that belongs more on the silver screen than in real… Read More

How Nintendo learned from a Wii U disappointment to create the popular Switch console

For Nintendo, the past six years have been a lesson in learning from disappointment and rebounding with record-breaking success. Speaking… Read More

After historic court decision on e-commerce taxes, Avalara launches new licensing program to help manage the new world

National e-commerce retailers might have bemoaned the recent Supreme Court decision allowing states to require retailers to collect sales taxes… Read More

Watch as hundreds receive President Trump’s emergency alert test during GeekWire Summit

The nation received a text from President Trump on Wednesday. It wasn’t a tweet. It was just a test. A… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope boosts evidence for first exomoon seen circling alien planet

With a lot of help from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now feel confident enough to publish their evidence for… Read More

What Amazon and Netflix can teach us about learning, according to DreamBox Learning CEO

Many of the technologies we use every day are constantly learning from us. We train Netflix in what genres of… Read More

eBay CEO: ‘I want to get as far away from Amazon as I can’ and stand for something different

Amazon and eBay have been battling it out in e-commerce for years — for both buyers and sellers — though… Read More

Blue Origin works on Blue Moon lunar trip with Germany’s OHB and MT Aerospace

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, has signed a letter of intent to cooperate with Germany’s OHB Group… Read More

Live from the GeekWire Summit, Day 2: Nintendo of America President and Boeing CEO

Update: Thanks for tuning into the livestream. We’ll be posting videos of the fireside chats and panel discussions later on… Read More

Apptio buys Boston-based FittedCloud, adding a cloud infrastructure cost analysis tool to the mix

Apptio completed its third acquisition Wednesday, announcing that it has bought FittedCloud, a fellow provider of tools for monitoring cloud… Read More

HaptX debuts new version of high-tech haptic virtual reality gloves at GeekWire Summit

The baby deer hooves prance on my palm. The raindrops tap my skin in staccato. The spider legs graze, freakishly,… Read More

Uber hires longtime Expedia executive Nikki Krishnamurthy to lead HR

Longtime Expedia executive Nikki Krishnamurthy has a new role at Uber. According to a report by Recode, Krishnamurthy joined the ride-hailing company… Read More

eBay accuses Amazon of using its messaging platform to poach sellers, sends cease-and-desist letter

eBay sent a cease-and-desist letter to Amazon this week, accusing its e-commerce rival of using eBay’s messaging platform to poach… Read More

Recommendations startup Likewise emerges from Bill Gates’ private office, letting friends track and share their favorite things

A new startup cooked up by one of Bill Gates’ top executives, hatched in his office and funded by the… Read More