Articles from 2018 – Page 5 of 161

Xbox One gets its own keyboard and mouse: First look at Razer’s new peripheral for Microsoft console

In advance of next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Singaporean hardware manufacturer Razer has shared images of… Read More

Tech Moves: Voyager Capital adds new partner in Canada; Nick Hughes embarks on Founders Live world tour

— Voyager Capital has hired Meredith Powell as its dedicated Canadian venture partner, a new position the Pacific Northwest venture… Read More

Boeing’s board boosts dividend by 20 percent and expands buyback program

The Boeing Co. reported today that its board of directors approved a 20 percent increase in the company’s quarterly dividend,… Read More

Tech concentration in big cities is growing, leaving rural America behind, study finds

The Amazon HQ2 hullaballoo threw two important economic trends into sharp relief over the past year. The first is communities… Read More

‘Fresh Prince’ star suing makers of ‘Fortnite’ for stealing his ‘Carlton Dance’ moves for video game

Alfonso Ribeiro clearly isn’t amused by all those kids who are dancing during and after playing “Fortnite.” The former star… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture will send science to space on 10th suborbital flight

Update for 5:47 a.m. PT Dec. 20: After working through a ground infrastructure issue, Blue Origin has decided to put off… Read More

Embraer's E190-E2 and Boeing's 737 MAX 7

Boeing and Brazil’s Embraer set terms for commercial (and defense) joint ventures

Five months after announcing a tentative deal, the Boeing Co. and Brazil’s Embraer aerospace company say they’ve approved the terms… Read More

Skytap cuts 25 marketing jobs amid shift to selling its cloud services through partners

Seattle’s Skytap signaled earlier this year it was going to be working much more closely with public cloud providers in… Read More

‘State of Startups’ survey: Founders sound off on fundraising, biases, blockchain, China and more

Top venture capital firm First Round Capital published its annual “State of Startups” survey that polled more than 500 founders… Read More

Oracle’s latest JEDI cloud contract protest spurs Amazon Web Services to defend itself in federal court

As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year,… Read More

Amazon reportedly working with big consumer brands to reduce its costs on ‘CRaP’ items

That heavy bottled water? Or those bulky, cheap paper towels? Amazon would prefer that you order them in larger quantities… Read More

Vitamin subscription service Persona secures $4.5M, launches service for doctors

Persona, a startup that creates and delivers customized vitamin regimens, has secured $4.5 million in venture funding and launched a… Read More

Biotech startup Kineta inks cancer deal with Pfizer worth up to $505M

Seattle-based biotech startup Kineta today received a leg-up in its efforts to kill cancerous tumors using the immune system. Kineta announced an… Read More

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 9, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 9, 2018. Read More

Rocket Lab sends 13 miniature satellites into orbit from New Zealand for NASA

Rocket Lab has sent its first payloads for NASA into orbit from its New Zealand launch pad, atop a low-cost… Read More

Artist mixes real photographs and his vision of deep space to create an otherworldly Instagram feed

Imagine the images on social media when one of our modern space-travel pioneers — whether it’s Bezos or Musk or… Read More

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Numbers on the Border: The immigration stats President Trump didn’t talk about in the Oval Office

Something remarkable happened in the White House this week, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck… Read More

Tech Moves: Alder gets a CFO; Eventcore snags sales VP; Redfin hires head of renovations

Carlos Campoy is the new CFO at Alder BioPharmaceuticals. The Bothell, Wash.-based drug company is developing eptinezumab, an antibody-based migraine… Read More

Amazon adds NBA League Pass to Prime video lineup as tech giant continues sports push

Amazon bolstered its growing library of live sports programming with the addition of NBA League Pass to Prime Video Channels.… Read More

Discord increases pressure on Steam, announcing aggressive new developer revenue share

The competition for digital distribution platforms for games is really heating up in terms of developer revenue. Earlier this month… Read More

Geek of the Week: Gerard Medioni is a man on the Go, turning Amazon’s retail concept into a reality

Amazon had a vision. Gerard Medioni had a computer vision. Together, there’s apparently no stopping the tech giant and the… Read More

Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage

Another open-source enterprise technology company is walling off parts of its software from cloud infrastructure providers. Confluent announced Friday morning… Read More

Trump thanks Apple’s Tim Cook for jobs expansion, but where’s the love for Jeff Bezos and HQ2?

It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to… Read More

UW students show off virtual reality projects in another display of Seattle’s VR/AR clout

Seattle’s robust virtual and augmented reality industry does not consist of only companies such as Microsoft, Oculus, Valve, HTC, and… Read More

What’s next for commercial spaceflight? Passengers will soon get their turn

MOJAVE, Calif. — The first suborbital space passenger is less likely to be a billionaire like Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson… Read More

Topgolf to Seattle? High-tech sports entertainment company proposes facility in Renton

Fast-growing high-tech sports entertainment company Topgolf has its eyes on the Seattle area with a new proposal to build a… Read More

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Amazon takes its hometown baggage to NYC as Apple makes nice with Austin, Seattle, and SoCal

Amazon and Apple are planning new homes in new cities, each with room for thousands of employees. But the comparison… Read More

Retro software softwear: Microsoft shows off a Windows 95 ‘ugly sweater’ and fans want it now

What if a so-called “ugly sweater” is actually just the type of throwback apparel that people would want to wear?… Read More

Global commodity trade logistics management software startup Intelage raises $2.3M

After running his own commodities trade and marketing firm for 15 years, John Han knew all about the inefficiencies that… Read More