Articles from 2018 – Page 39 of 161

A nonprofit battles the ‘magnetic media crisis’ by digitizing aging movies before they vanish

In a narrow, windowless, closet of an office in Seattle’s City Hall, two young women are battling against the “magnetic… Read More

Meet Karat: This startup has quietly conducted 20K technical interviews for MuleSoft, Intuit, Pinterest

Before Mo Bhende and Jeff Spector decided to go all-in on a startup idea, they took a little trip around… Read More

Paul Allen says non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has returned but voices optimism about fighting it

Nine years after he underwent treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a potentially fatal but treatable form of cancer, Microsoft co-founder Paul… Read More

Amazon-owned IMDb to introduce a free, ad-supported streaming service for Fire TV

Amazon-owned IMDb is planning to announce a free, ad-supported streaming service for Fire TV this week. First reported by CNBC… Read More

What California’s net neutrality battle with DOJ means for Washington and other states with open internet laws

Immediately after California passed a law reinstating open internet regulations in the state, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a… Read More

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

Moon Express, which aims to start missions to the moon within the next couple of years, says it has raised… Read More

California’s new law mandating women on corporate boards could be a model for other states

California became the first state in the nation Sunday to pass a law demanding women have a seat on the… Read More

T-Mobile CEO John Legere slams Verizon’s new 5G offering: ‘Will never scale … but it is first, right’

Verizon today lit up what it called the “first commercial 5G network on the globe,” but T-Mobile CEO John Legere… Read More

Seattle police try new tactic to give game streamers and others defense against ‘swatting’ crimes

Law enforcement agencies across the country have found few answers when it comes to dealing with the dangerous and sometimes… Read More

Bird enlists Seattle ‘ambassadors’ to test electric scooters despite city’s ongoing ban

Bird sightings are becoming more common in Seattle. Bird scooters that is. GeekWire readers — and this reporter — have spotted… Read More

Turn up the tunes: Despite clever gimmicks, music still reigns king on smart speakers

It seems like smart assistants are learning new tricks every day, from cooking microwave popcorn to helping users get flu… Read More

Mobile car repair service Wrench raises $12M to expand nationally, launch corporate benefit program

Wrench is putting its foot on the pedal as the mobile car repair marketplace continues to expand across the U.S.… Read More

GeekWire Summit FAQ: Here’s everything you need to know for this week’s big tech conference

The 2018 GeekWire Summit is finally here. After months of planning, we’re thrilled that more than 800 business, tech, media… Read More

Binge-watch our Elevator Pitch video series before this week’s GeekWire Summit showdown

It’s not easy to pitch a game-changing startup idea in less than 50 seconds, no less doing it in an… Read More

Salesforce singles out gaps in Microsoft and Oracle’s services as its road map for growth

Business-to-business marketing, at least in tech, is all about making the tech buyer absorb the talking points they need to… Read More

From farm to final frontier: How Boeing’s CEO plants the seeds for tomorrow’s tech

Dennis Muilenburg is leading Boeing into a second century of innovation with dreams of hypersonic flight, self-flying planes and journeys… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 23, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 23, 2018. Read More

Court docs: Elon Musk to resign as Tesla chairman, pay $20M, and submit tweets for internal review

Elon Musk has agreed to step down as Tesla’s chairman for three years but will remain CEO of the electric… Read More

He lost his website to the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft, but diehard fan stands by his tech idea

Michael Wienckowski was raised in Green Bay, Wisc., and has been a Green Bay Packers fan his entire life. His grandfather… Read More

Until there’s telepathy, Zipwhip CEO John Lauer says texting is the king of communications

John Lauer, CEO and co-founder of business texting-software provider Zipwhip, says there’s no faster, easier way to communicate than text… Read More

Online learning platform CreativeLive cuts jobs in quest for profitability

Online learning company CreativeLive laid off an unspecified number of employees Friday in what CEO Chase Jarvis described as a… Read More

Wireless headphone startup Human raises $21.2M, product still in development 4 years after launch

Human’s product is still under wraps, nearly four years after the company launched. But investors continue to bet big on… Read More

Tableau marketing chief Elissa Fink leaving after 11 years with data visualization company

Elissa Fink, the marketing leader who helped Tableau Software grow from ambitious tech startup to international public company with more than… Read More

FDA approves Adaptive Biotech’s tool to track potential cancer relapses

Seattle-based biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Friday that the FDA has cleared its clonoSEQ platform for use. It marks first time a technology… Read More

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company

Weeks after Oracle said its top cloud executive was taking a temporary leave of absence from the company, it confirmed… Read More

Static Object tracks the progress of programmers by focusing on the 5% of code that’s meaningful

[Editor’s Note: StaticObject changed its name to GitClear in 2019.] Entrepreneur Bill Harding launched Static Object to build a product… Read More

Geek of the Week: Power of pop culture engages Funko’s Stephen Bury as he engages customers

Workplace culture is often cited as a leading factor in job satisfaction, especially in the tech world these days where… Read More

Tesla’s Elon Musk signals a battle with SEC over fraud charges, and stock price sinks

Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, is calling the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud claims against him “unjustified” after… Read More

Inside the inaugural Female Founders Alliance accelerator: Eight startups, one hope for the future

Female Founders Alliance started as an online community for women CEOs and startup leaders just 18 months ago. But it has… Read More

Hackers access up to 50M Facebook accounts exploiting ‘vulnerability’ in platform’s code

Hackers were able to access nearly 50 million Facebook accounts by exploiting a security vulnerability, the company said Friday. In… Read More