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Articles from 2018

Amazon again puts disaster relief efforts in motion as Hurricane Florence set to punish Carolina coast

Hurricane Florence, the monster Category 3 storm taking aim at the North and South Carolina coastline, is expected to make… Read More

Extra casual Wednesday at Amazon as Jeff Bezos wears pajamas to board meeting — for a cause

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnoot6EhOJ_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=d9j2opcdczz2 Casual attire isn’t exactly at head turner at most tech companies, but when the richest man in the world… Read More

Sports tech at Apple event: New iPhone app uses augmented reality for basketball training

A startup wants to help basketball players improve their jump shot — with just a smartphone. Among the flurry of… Read More

Talk of the town: Ignite Seattle nabs new sponsor and partner to make its speaker events even better

If you’ve got five minutes, here’s a story about some new happenings at Ignite Seattle, the successful, 12-year-old speaker series… Read More

Toronto

Make room Google: Microsoft announces new Canadian HQ in Toronto

Microsoft is the latest American tech titan to see something special in Toronto. The Redmond, Wash., software giant announced plans… Read More

Meet the new iPhones: Here’s all the smartphone news Apple announced today

Apple unveiled three new versions of the iPhone today, with plenty of hyperbole, some new capabilities under the hood and… Read More

Apple makes huge leap in health tech with first-of-its-kind heart tracking feature on Apple Watch

Apple made a bold move into health technology during a special product event Wednesday, announcing that the Apple Watch Series… Read More

Oracle still can’t make up its mind about how it fits into the cloud era

Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas… Read More

Amazon HQ2 speculation swirls as Jeff Bezos heads to DC

Mr. Bezos is going to Washington, with the eyes of the nation on him. The Amazon CEO arrives in Washington,… Read More

Farm data analytics startup Growers raises $5M, creates second headquarters in Seattle

Growers is growing. The Raleigh, N.C.-based farm data analytics startup today announced a $5 million Series A investment round and… Read More

Smartsheet CEO to share startup tips and leadership lessons at new GeekWire event series for entrepreneurs

Mark Mader knows a thing or two about leadership. Mader joined Smartsheet when it was a 6-person startup. In the… Read More

Nintendo sets a start date for Switch online service

The much anticipated online gaming service for the popular Nintendo Switch has a start date: Sept. 18. Nintendo plans to… Read More

Female Founders Alliance reveals 8 startups in new ‘Ready Set Raise’ accelerator program

Female Founders Alliance today announced the eight companies participating in its inaugural Ready Set Raise program designed to help women entrepreneurs… Read More

Tech Moves: MDMetrix taps Caradigm co-founder as new CEO; Amazon VP takes helm at Delta Dental; and more

Seattle health technology startup MDMetrix has a new CEO: Caradigm co-founder and longtime healthcare executive Warren Ratliff. He joins the company… Read More

Pulumi releases software-development kit to unlock the multicloud potential of Kubernetes

Seattle cloud startup Pulumi plans to release a software-development kit Wednesday that advances the company’s mission to make the Kubernetes… Read More

Add3 acquires Point It as Seattle digital marketing firms join forces

Seattle digital marketing firm Add3 today announced the acquisition of fellow Seattle marketing agency Point It. Founded in 2003, Add3 specializes in search,… Read More

Remitly expands to 11 European countries, CEO compares company’s growth strategy to Amazon

Remitly, the Seattle-based digital remittance company, is coming to Europe. After debuting its service in the U.K. last year, Remitly… Read More

Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates rallies top tech companies to double women of color studying computer science by 2025

Melinda Gates is convening leading tech companies in an effort to dramatically increase the number of computer science degrees awarded… Read More

Fast-growing Heroclip keeps hooking investors as gadget secures $1.1M in new funding

Investors clearly want to hang with Heroclip. The unique hybrid gear clip that is part carabiner and part utility hook… Read More

Amazon expands Whole Foods grocery delivery to its hometown of Seattle, service now available in 38 cities

Amazon continues to expand grocery delivery from Whole Foods Market across the U.S., and the latest batch of 10 cities… Read More

Drone visualization

A drone that’s an on-demand data server? The perfect patent for Amazon’s ambitions

Amazon is well-known for developing delivery drones, and for delivering data through Amazon Web Services — so it had to be… Read More

TLDR: How WNBA Star Sue Bird uses tech to beat her competition at 37 years old

Today’s featured stories Sue Bird’s secrets: How the WNBA star uses tech to beat her competition — at 37 years… Read More

Fir real? Amazon cuts further into holiday tradition and will ship 7-foot-tall Christmas trees this season

One of the things I love most about Christmas every year is the ritual of picking out the right tree… Read More

Microsoft releases details on last week’s big Azure outage, during which servers were damaged but no data was lost

A severe lightning storm in the San Antonio area last week not only disrupted the power supply to Microsoft Azure’s… Read More

Net neutrality or not, new research shows cell carriers throttle video content all the time

Nearly every U.S. cell provider engages in throttling, also known as slowing service selectively, according to research from Northeastern University… Read More

Blue Origin passenger

Blue Origin’s schedule for putting people on space trips reportedly slips to 2019

News Brief: Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith today signaled that the Kent, Wash.-based space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff… Read More

Proposed T-Mobile merger with Sprint on hold as FCC pauses 180-day shot clock

The Federal Communications Commision needs more time to consider whether to approve a multibillion-dollar merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. The… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… Read More

KEXP returns to Seattle airwaves after 11-year-old digital memory card takes station down

After a Tuesday morning drive that was a morning dry for KEXP‘s traditional radio listeners, the Seattle station is back… Read More

Amazon to release new Jack White concert film and live EP on Prime Video and Music

Jack White, the prolific musician who has released a large catalog of music as both a solo musician and with… Read More

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