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Articles from 2018

Amazon awarded $75K in dispute with e-book marketer over Kindle Direct Publishing scheme

Amazon has been awarded $75,000 in an arbitration case against an e-book marketer that allegedly inflated reader numbers artificially in… Read More

We always fall for it: These states are tweeting the most about Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte

Ah, yes, it wouldn’t be fall without … wait. It’s not even Labor Day yet. Well, that doesn’t matter for… Read More

Report: Seattle’s Qualtrics is talking to bankers about an IPO

Qualtrics, which sells customer experience software as a service to companies looking to understand the best ways to keep their… Read More

Geek of the Week: Girls Who Code find the right role model in Adobe software engineer Rebecca Gold

Rebecca Gold took her first computer science class when she was a senior in high school to avoid taking calculus. “I… Read More

Systima wins a contract to supply hatch mechanisms for NASA’s Orion spaceship

Systima Technologies says it’s been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems to provide pyrotechnically actuated hatch mechanisms for… Read More

First peek inside PAX West: Giant game event opens in Seattle with heightened security

PAX West, the video game convention that brings tens of thousands of gaming fans to Seattle every summer, opened Friday… Read More

SR 99 tunnel

Watch: Seattle tunnel’s high-tech ventilation system designed to keep air fresh deep below ground

There may not be a breeze coming off Elliott Bay the way there is during a drive along the elevated… Read More

Cities across the country join escalating legal battle over net neutrality

Top officials in 27 cities across the country are backing a lawsuit over the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality, claiming that removing… Read More

GeekWire 200 August update: Top startups juice real estate market with HQ moves

Tech giants like Amazon and Google have scooped up scads of office space in recent years, but the top companies… Read More

Bay Area universities, MIT, Harvard top startup ranking for grads who raise venture capital

Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT continue to pump out more entrepreneurs than any other universities across the U.S. Seattle-based investment database… Read More

Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision

Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?… Read More

Trump

Trump: Google, Amazon, and Facebook could be an ‘antitrust situation’

President Donald Trump continued to accuse top tech companies of using their power to promote a liberal agenda Thursday. He… Read More

TLDR: Amazon stock hits $2K, Microsoft’s new parental leave policy, Google debunks Trump video

Today’s featured stories Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5… Read More

CEO of Seattle-area tech staffing firms arrested in alleged H-1B visa fraud scheme

The Department of Justice is pressing charges against the CEO of two Bellevue, Wash., technology staffing firms claiming he faked… Read More

MQ-25 Stingray drone tanker

Boeing wins $805M contract to build U.S. Navy’s MQ-25A robotic refueling planes

After a months-long competition with the likes of Lockheed Martin, Boeing has won a $805.3 million contract from the Pentagon… Read More

Volunteers scour drone footage online in search for woman who went missing on hike north of Seattle

The official search has ended for a hiker who went missing in the mountains northeast of Seattle on Aug. 1.… Read More

New Shepard booster landing

Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 15 promising space technologies for testing on suborbital flights, and almost half of them… Read More

Puzzle Break’s newest escape room uses Microsoft HoloLens in challenge set around Seattle history

In 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair (or Century 21 Exposition) ushered in a futuristic vision for its host city, bringing… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Seahawks star joins FanWide; RealSelf CMO departs; and more

Sports technology startup FanWide has added a former Seahawks star to its team. Cliff Avril will serve as an advisor,… Read More

Report: Apple’s new iPhone will be called the ‘XS’ and there will be a gold color option

Apple announced Thursday that its next “special event” will take place on Sept. 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater on… Read More

Pet-sitting startup Rover snags new HQ with room for 700 people — plus their dogs

Rover is getting a new dog house. The Seattle pet-sitting marketplace is leasing the top five floors of the 8th… Read More

University of Washington spin-out raising cash for more accurate DNA sequencing technology

  TwinStrand Biosciences, a spin-out of the University of Washington, is raising cash to commercialize DNA sequencing technology that it… Read More

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett talks Twitter (real and fake): ‘There’s other things in life I want to do than tweet’

 In the five years that he has been “active” on Twitter, Warren Buffett has tweeted nine times. The billionaire… Read More

WTIA launches founder cohort program to help Seattle community ‘play bigger’

Being a startup founder can be a lonely experience. Now the Washington Technology Industry Association wants to help. The WTIA… Read More

Oracle’s quixotic quest to derail the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract continues

The Department of Defense won’t announce the winner of its ten-year $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing… Read More

Google debunks Trump video alleging search giant didn’t promote his State of the Union address

Google is disputing President Trump’s insinuation that the company failed to promote the live stream for his State of the… Read More

Silicon Valley’s Seattle secret: Bay Area investors making record number of deals in region’s startups

There’s something about Seattle tech startups and entrepreneurs that gets Rajeev Batra excited. His Silicon Valley investment firm, Mayfield, has backed… Read More

Some bitcoin miners in Central Washington are about to start paying more for electricity

Power officials in Grant County voted this week to raise electricity rates on companies it now dubs “evolving industry” customers,… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Is the Xbox All Access subscription actually a good deal?

Microsoft announced a strange new subscription-style plan for Xbox this week, called All Access. It basically bundles existing gaming subscriptions… Read More

Soyuz craft

Don’t panic: Space station crew works to patch up tiny air leak in docked Soyuz craft

The International Space Station’s flight controllers detected a minute pressure leak overnight, but a temporary fix was made with epoxy… Read More

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