Articles from 2018 – Page 64 of 161

Sales automation company Outreach buys Sales Hacker media startup in its first-ever acquisition

Outreach, just a couple months removed from a massive $65 million funding round, has made the first acquisition in its… Read More

Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate apps and partner on delivery as coffee culture takes hold in China

Starbucks will integrate its online store and customer rewards program with Alibaba’s popular apps and online services, used by more than… Read More

Boeing resets test schedule for Starliner space taxi; first crewed flight in mid-2019

Last month’s problem with leaky rocket engine valves has forced Boeing to rearrange the sequence of tests for its Starliner… Read More

TLDR: Self-flying planes, Cat celeb Lil Bub lends poop to biotech startup, Facebook tool that tracks your time in the app

Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Hands-on with the Lenovo Smart Display, Google’s Echo Show competitor

Geared Up is back after a break, and we’re jumping in with a review of a new Echo Show competitor:… Read More

Despite loss, Tesla’s second-quarter report boosts stock (and Elon Musk mellows out)

Tesla reported a larger loss per share than expected in the second quarter, but there was more revenue and less… Read More

How Arlan Hamilton turned her hustle and grit into a minority-focused VC fund investing millions

Arlan Hamilton, founder of the venture capital fund Backstage Capital, says that she’s come out twice. First, as a lesbian,… Read More

Apptio second-quarter earnings beat the Street on strong revenue, with profitability in sight

Apptio reported a 31 percent increase in second-quarter revenue Wednesday, beating expectations for both revenue and profit as sales of… Read More

T-Mobile adds another 1.6M customers, tops profit expectations with Sprint deal pending

T-Mobile added another 1.6 million customers in the second quarter, topping 75 million customers for the first time, and reporting… Read More

Amazon Web Services continues to lock customers into long-term cloud deals as deferred revenue and the length of contracts grew in Q2

As more and more companies have gotten used to the idea of renting servers from a bookseller, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Feds apprehend three international hacking suspects for stealing millions of credit card records

Three top members of an international cybercrime ring have been arrested, U.S. District Attorney Annette Hayes said Wednesday from her… Read More

Surprise! Climate experts hail Trump’s pick for top science aide, Kelvin Droegemeier

News Brief: Years after claiming that concerns over climate change were a “total, and very expensive, hoax,” President Donald Trump has… Read More

Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends poop to Seattle startup, leading to discovery of new kinds of bacteria

Grab your litter scoopers, folks — there might just be valuable scientific data in your cat’s poop. That was certainly the… Read More

Huawei overtakes Apple for 2nd place in global smartphone sales, new study finds

Apple has fallen to third place among the world’s top smartphone makers, trailing South Korean giant Samsung and Chinese tech… Read More

Zillow expands home buying and selling operation to Denver, marking first foray into an expensive market

Zillow Group is expanding its Zillow Offers home buying and selling program to Denver, its fourth market overall, but the… Read More

Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft

Boeing says it’ll be moving into a 100,000-square-foot research and lab space in Cambridge, Mass., that will focus on the… Read More

TLDR: Facebook discovers political influence campaign, Seattle clinic for families affected by gentrification, Apple beats revenue expectations

Today’s featured stories Facebook discovers coordinated political influence campaign ahead of midterm elections Seattle Children’s opens new community clinic to… Read More

Judge blocks release of 3D-printed gun manuals in victory for Washington state AG

A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday that blocks an organization called Defense Distributed from publishing… Read More

GeekWire 200 update: It’s the era of giant funding rounds, and Seattle-area startups are benefiting

It’s a good time to be raising venture capital in the Pacific Northwest, and startups on the GeekWire 200 are… Read More

Nintex acquires New Zealand process mapping company Promapp

Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex has acquired Promapp, a New Zealand firm that helps companies identify and automate their business processes. The companies… Read More

Apple beats earnings expectations with $53.3B in revenue, stock up 3%

Amid the flurry of tech stocks plummeting as companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix miss earnings expectations, Apple is staying… Read More

DocuSign acquires SpringCM for $220M to continue evolution beyond electronic signatures

DocuSign said it has agreed to acquire SpringCM, a Chicago-based cloud document generation and contract management company, for $220 million… Read More

Real estate investment platform CrowdStreet raises $8M to develop new products and services

Portland, Ore.-based CrowdStreet, the crowdfunding commercial real estate investment platform, has raised $8 million in a Series B funding round… Read More

Facebook discovers coordinated political influence campaign ahead of midterm elections

Facebook has uncovered 32 pages and accounts working together to spread messaging tied to hot-button issues, the same tactics used… Read More

DreamBox Learning raises $130M, adds former U.S. Education Secretary to board

DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a… Read More

Profits soar for Nintendo and Sony despite slight console sales slowdown

Sony and Nintendo both reported their quarterly financials Tuesday, and the gaming giants brought in sizable profits despite a slight… Read More

You can now pay rent and apply for apartments on Zillow as real estate giant expands scope yet again

Zillow Group today debuted new features that let people pay rent and apply for apartments through its website, the latest… Read More

Seattle Children’s opens new community clinic to serve families affected by gentrification

The story of gentrification and skyrocketing housing prices is becoming a well-worn one in Seattle. But here’s an organization you… Read More

A tiny independent Steam game was almost certainly a cryptojacking scam

Here’s the short version: it was discovered over the weekend that an indie game available on Steam, Abstractism, was not… Read More

TLDR: T-Mobile & Nokia’s $3.5B 5G alliance, Ofo shuts down in Seattle, Magic: The Gathering

Today’s featured stories With Sprint acquisition pending, T-Mobile teams up with Nokia in new $3.5B 5G alliance Ofo officially shutting… Read More