In advance of next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Singaporean hardware manufacturer Razer has shared images of its forthcoming keyboard and mouse for the Xbox One. We’ve… Read More
— Voyager Capital has hired Meredith Powell as its dedicated Canadian venture partner, a new position the Pacific Northwest venture capital firm just created. Powell is a long-time entrepreneur, investor,… Read More
The Boeing Co. reported today that its board of directors approved a 20 percent increase in the company’s quarterly dividend, to a level of $2.055 per share. The board also… Read More
The Amazon HQ2 hullaballoo threw two important economic trends into sharp relief over the past year. The first is communities across the United States are starving for tech jobs. That… Read More
Alfonso Ribeiro clearly isn’t amused by all those kids who are dancing during and after playing “Fortnite.” The former star of the 1990s TV sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”… Read More
Update for 5:47 a.m. PT Dec. 20: After working through a ground infrastructure issue, Blue Origin has decided to put off the next launch of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship until… Read More
Five months after announcing a tentative deal, the Boeing Co. and Brazil’s Embraer aerospace company say they’ve approved the terms for a joint venture that would take in Embraer’s commercial… Read More
Seattle’s Skytap signaled earlier this year it was going to be working much more closely with public cloud providers in the near future, and as part of that shift the… Read More
Top venture capital firm First Round Capital published its annual “State of Startups” survey that polled more than 500 founders to get a pulse of the entrepreneurial climate in 2018.… Read More
As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year, it will get some help defending its process from the… Read More
That heavy bottled water? Or those bulky, cheap paper towels? Amazon would prefer that you order them in larger quantities — or that the manufacturer take responsibility for shipping them… Read More
Persona, a startup that creates and delivers customized vitamin regimens, has secured $4.5 million in venture funding and launched a service to help doctors suggest supplements for their patients. The… Read More
Seattle-based biotech startup Kineta today received a leg-up in its efforts to kill cancerous tumors using the immune system. Kineta announced an agreement with drug giant Pfizer that includes $15 million in… Read More
Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure. Microsoft thinks it has a strategy to win them over.… Read More
Rocket Lab has sent its first payloads for NASA into orbit from its New Zealand launch pad, atop a low-cost Electron rocket powered by 3-D-printed engines. Liftoff from Launch Complex… Read More
Imagine the images on social media when one of our modern space-travel pioneers — whether it’s Bezos or Musk or Branson — actually gets us there. Random pictures of sunsets… Read More
Something remarkable happened in the White House this week, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with President Trump to talk about border security… Read More
Carlos Campoy is the new CFO at Alder BioPharmaceuticals. The Bothell, Wash.-based drug company is developing eptinezumab, an antibody-based migraine treatment that’s currently undergoing a pivotal phase 3 trial. Campoy… Read More
Amazon bolstered its growing library of live sports programming with the addition of NBA League Pass to Prime Video Channels. The NBA’s live streaming product is now available on Amazon’s… Read More
The competition for digital distribution platforms for games is really heating up in terms of developer revenue. Earlier this month Steam, the service owned and operated by Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve,… Read More
Amazon had a vision. Gerard Medioni had a computer vision. Together, there’s apparently no stopping the tech giant and the computer scientist who serves as director of research for Amazon… Read More
Another open-source enterprise technology company is walling off parts of its software from cloud infrastructure providers. Confluent announced Friday morning that it is changing the terms of the licenses around… Read More
It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to tweet out a very real “thank you” to Apple CEO… Read More
Seattle’s robust virtual and augmented reality industry does not consist of only companies such as Microsoft, Oculus, Valve, HTC, and others that are developing the futuristic technology here in the… Read More
MOJAVE, Calif. — The first suborbital space passenger is less likely to be a billionaire like Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson or Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos, and more likely to be… Read More
Fast-growing high-tech sports entertainment company Topgolf has its eyes on the Seattle area with a new proposal to build a driving range facility on a nearly 14-acre parcel of land… Read More
Amazon and Apple are planning new homes in new cities, each with room for thousands of employees. But the comparison between the two companies’ expansion plans ends there. While Amazon… Read More
What if a so-called “ugly sweater” is actually just the type of throwback apparel that people would want to wear? Microsoft’s official Windows Twitter feed is finding that out after… Read More
After running his own commodities trade and marketing firm for 15 years, John Han knew all about the inefficiencies that plagued stakeholders across the global commodity industry. Now he’s turning… Read More