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Why Seattle’s plan to bring Intersection WiFi kiosks and bus stop makeovers stalled Fast-growing cities, like Seattle, are looking for opportunities to embrace technology to become more efficient, mobile, and equitable. But working… Read More
Crowdsourcing efforts save digital ghosts of artifacts lost in Brazil’s museum fire One of the greatest tragedies in the museum world transpired over the weekend when fire broke out at Brazil’s Museu… Read More
Fresh patents served up for the smart shelf technologies seen in Amazon Go stores Amazon has just opened a third Seattle location that makes use of its cashierless Amazon Go grocery shopping concept —… Read More
TLDR: Paul Allen’s $100K donation to help GOP, Amazon briefly becomes $1T company, latest philanthropic efforts by Amazon Today’s featured stories Tech titan Paul Allen gives $100,000 to GOP causes — and he’s not the only one Amazon… Read More
Amazon enlists Prime Air jet in cancer fight, aiming to take charitable profile to new heights Amazon has been criticized in the past for not doing enough in terms of philanthropy. But it’s going to be… Read More
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Former Comcast, Accolade executive Jack Stoddard reportedly the COO of Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire health venture Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s health venture now has a chief operating officer. According to a report by CNBC,… Read More
Lessons in bootstrapping: Drift acquires marketing automation startup Siftrock, opens Seattle office The path to profitability and acquisition doesn’t always require hoards of venture capital dollars. That’s what Siftrock just proved. The… Read More
Juno Therapeutics agrees to pay $24M to stockholders in suit over disclosure of patient deaths More than two years after a slate of patient deaths in a clinical trial, cancer immunotherapy company Juno Therapeutics is poised… Read More
Russian space chief blames space station leak on drill hole, doesn’t rule out sabotage The International Space Station’s crew has successfully stopped up last week’s tiny air leak in a Russian Soyuz capsule docked… Read More
Jeff Bezos hints at how Amazon’s two HQs could work together across time zones It has been almost a year since Amazon surprised the world with plans for a second North American headquarters, with… Read More
Amazon briefly tops $1T market cap, joining Apple among most valuable U.S. public companies UPDATE: Amazon stock closed the day at $2,039.51, putting its market cap at $994.75 billion, according to Google Finance. Amazon became… Read More
Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers Some Microsoft Azure customers with workloads running in its South Central US data center are having big problems coming back… Read More
Third Amazon Go location opens a week after second store, accelerating Amazon’s quest to end grocery checkout lines Amazon today debuted the third location of its checkout-less grocery concept Amazon Go, the second store opening in a week.… Read More
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Future of sports collectibles? Player Tokens brings together blockchain and baseball cards Player Tokens Inc. is betting that digital assets and blockchain technology will reshape the way sports fans buy and sell… Read More
Podcast Behind the scenes at Cinerama: Landmark movie house becomes an international pop culture draw You may think of Seattle’s Cinerama theater as just a cool place to watch movies. Yet for some, it represents… Read More
Tech titan Paul Allen gives $100,000 to GOP causes — and he’s not the only one Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has made his largest-ever contribution to congressional candidates in the form of a $100,000 donation to… Read More
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Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism More than 17 years after Space Adventures put its first millionaire client in orbit, and nearly nine years after getting… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 26, 2018 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 26, 2018. Read More
Hands-on: Valve’s ‘Artifact’ is complex, colorful, and the last thing anyone wanted to see right now There are only a few companies in the video game industry that have attained Valve Software’s position, where it can… Read More
PackageRoute wants to make sure FedEx-delivered packages make it to your door Amazon recently announced a program to encourage independent delivery drivers, but what many people don’t know is that one of… Read More
Scooter startups hit roadblocks as cities get smarter about new forms of transportation If 2011 was the year of the ride-hailing app, then 2018 is the year of the scooter. But in the… Read More
Crowd pleasers: 5 companies share secrets to success on Kickstarter and Indiegogo Beyond the obvious need to raise cash, crowdfunding solves a variety of issues for a young company with an idea… Read More
Podcast Funding trends reveal how Seattle startups are starting to rival their Silicon Valley counterparts Seattle is sometimes called the younger sibling of Silicon Valley when it comes to startups, and it’s true that Seattle’s… Read More
