Articles from 2018 – Page 42 of 161

Amazon names first female NFL broadcasting duo for Thursday Night Football on Prime Video

Amazon will help make a bit of sports broadcasting history on Thursday. The tech giant has hired Andrea Kremer and… Read More

GeekWire Summit: Join us for a look into the future with leaders from Boeing, Ring, Uber and more

The GeekWire Summit is a week away, and our heads are spinning with anticipation, excitement and a bit of nervous… Read More

Chef makes it easier for customers to move older applications onto Microsoft Azure

Seattle’s Chef released three new infrastructure management tools Tuesday designed to help customers who adopted Chef for their on-premises servers… Read More

Amazon donates $1M to Wikipedia’s nonprofit parent organization

Amazon has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund that keeps the online encyclopedia Wikipedia running. In a… Read More

Salesforce and Amazon Web Services strike new data-sharing deal between multiple cloud products

Companies that are using both Amazon Web Services and Salesforce as part of their enterprise computing needs will be able… Read More

Asset condition reporting startup Record360 acquired by private equity group Alpine SG

Seattle startup Record360 has been acquired by Alpine SG, a Silicon Valley group that invests in software-as-a-service companies and is backed… Read More

Can’t get enough sun? Startup launches light therapy booths to bathe users in vitamin D

You walk into a small kiosk glowing with purple light, press the buttons on the touchscreen interface, and stand for… Read More

LinkedIn aims to share its trove of intel on companies and workers through new Talent Insights tool

LinkedIn has a ton of data — thanks to 575 million worldwide members, 20 million companies and 15 million job… Read More

Salesforce plans to make it easier for customers to share data across its consumer products with Salesforce Customer 360

Enterprise software companies are thinking along the same lines this week: a day after Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP committed to… Read More

Vertafore insurance tech company closing Seattle-area office, shifting last remaining jobs to Denver

Insurance technology company Vertafore is closing its office in the Seattle suburbs, completing a transition to its new headquarters in… Read More

Boeing and National Science Foundation team up for STEM diversity and training

The National Science Foundation and Boeing say they’ve forged a $21 million partnership to accelerate skill development and increase diversity… Read More

TLDR: New study says Uber drivers are earning less

Today’s featured stories Uber drivers are earning less, Airbnb hosts are making more, and other insights from a new study… Read More

White House issues quantum computing strategy and hosts public-private summit

Federal officials and industry leaders — including representatives from Microsoft and Google — met today at a White House summit to… Read More

Fernish aims to ‘take the moving out of moving,’ expanding furniture rental service to Seattle

Michael Barlow and Lucas Dickey were tired of moving. Barlow, who landed a gig as an investment banker for JPMorgan out… Read More

Leafly removes CEO Chris Jeffery, less than one year after he joined marijuana review startup

Seattle-based marijuana strain and dispensary review startup Leafly says it removed CEO Chris Jeffery on Monday. Privateer Holdings, the Seattle marijuana investment firm… Read More

T-Mobile hires CenturyLink CFO to lead planned merger with Sprint

T-Mobile has hired a high-profile telecommunications executive to oversee its planned merger with Sprint. Sunit Patel, most recently the chief… Read More

‘Calling Facebook a toilet is a little unfair to toilets’: HBO’s John Oliver flush with anger for social giant

“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” got in its digs at tech companies on Sunday night. The show’s jab at Zillow… Read More

Here’s how Convoy’s $185M investment stacks up to other top rounds for Seattle startups in 2018

Convoy’s latest investment round was the largest for a Seattle-area startup in the past three years. Trucking startup Convoy reaches… Read More

3-D movies in the air? Alaska Airlines adds virtual reality to in-flight entertainment

Alaska Airlines is adding virtual reality to its in-flight entertainment menu in an experiment aimed at recreating a movie theater… Read More

Uber drivers are earning less, Airbnb hosts are making more, and other insights from a new study on the gig economy

In average monthly payments, Uber drivers are earning less than half what they made back in 2013, when on-demand transportation… Read More

Here are the 9 biggest announcements from the Microsoft Ignite tech conference

Microsoft is announcing a slew of new features and products across a variety of business areas at the Ignite conference… Read More

Pixvana’s new virtual reality production software lets you edit VR content while wearing a headset

Seattle startup Pixvana today released the full version of its software platform SPIN Studio that helps virtual reality filmmakers edit, process, and… Read More

Zillow’s place in scandal around Supreme Court nominee gets the attention of HBO’s John Oliver

The storm of controversy around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh became fodder for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,”… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cites BMW’s integration of Alexa and Cortana as a model for modern tech partnerships

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has some words of advice for companies navigating today’s tech landscape: own the process, be original… Read More

Salesforce and Apple partner on new iOS integrations and developer promotions

Salesforce its strengthening its ties to Apple with a series of initiatives announced Monday, from exclusive iPhone and iPad features… Read More

Microsoft teams up with Adobe and SAP on Open Data Initiative to link data across their products

Modern enterprise technology generates a ton of valuable data, but putting that data together can be quite tricky. Microsoft introduced… Read More

Highspot raises $35M to grow AI-fueled sales software used by Amazon, Dropbox, Twitter, others

During the last stretch of a 16-year career at Microsoft, Robert Wahbe was responsible for equipping sales teams with necessary… Read More

Microsoft deepens LinkedIn-Office 365 ties with ability to co-author docs through social network

LinkedIn users will soon be able to co-author documents on Office 365 programs with their contacts on the business social… Read More

Hybrid cloud customers are getting new services — and new hardware — from Microsoft Azure

It’s become pretty clear this year that cloud vendors have decided that the hybrid cloud is here to stay, and… Read More

Next-generation Microsoft Surface Hub coming in ‘phased introduction’ starting in 2019

Microsoft on Monday detailed a two-pronged debut for the second generation Surface Hub, the massive conference room computer concept, that… Read More