Articles from 2018

Amazon challenges Google and Facebook with surprising new multi-billion dollar business

Amazon’s cloud business may get much of the attention for bolstering the company’s bottom line. But an emerging new advertising… Read More

TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle

Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on… Read More

Einstein’s right again: Star obeys relativity as it whirls around Milky Way’s black hole

News Brief: A 26-year-long observational campaign provides clear evidence of the effect that general relativity has on the motion of… Read More

Marijuana strain and dispensary resource Leafly opens Baltimore office

News Brief: Seattle-based marijuana strain and dispensary resource platform Leafly just opened an office in Baltimore, where it already employs… Read More

Starbucks adds 6 million ‘digitally registered customers’ since March with new tech strategy

Starbucks added 6 million “digitally-registered customers” since it rolled out a new strategy in March to bolster 1-to-1 marketing outreach… Read More

EagleView aerial imagery venture acquiring Australia’s Spookfish, valued at $90M

EagleView Technologies, a privately held aerial imagery and data analytics company headquartered in Bothell, Wash., says it intends to acquire… Read More

Slack acquires tech behind Atlassian’s Stride and Hipchat tools, companies will work together on migrating customers

Not even a year after challenging Slack with the debut of Atlassian Stride, Slack has agreed to acquire the intellectual… Read More

Amazon hiring slows in favor of internal reshuffling as headcount hits 575K

Amazon’s headcount jumped to 575,700 people worldwide in the second quarter, but that figure isn’t rising as fast as it… Read More

Portland launches free-floating electric scooter share pilot with Bird and Skip

Portland will allow two shared, electric scooter companies to launch as early as this week, according to an announcement from… Read More

Expedia beats earnings expectations with $2.88 billion in revenue, sending stock soaring 10%

Expedia Group posted $2.88 billion in revenue across all of its brands, up 11 percent year-over-year and meeting analyst expectations for… Read More

Microsoft, Oregon, and B.C. kick in $750K for new study of high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest

The effort to build a high-speed rail connecting Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, B.C. just got a fresh cash infusion. Microsoft, the… Read More

Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent

The world’s leading cloud infrastructure service continues to grow at a solid clip, with Amazon Web Services recording $6.1 billion… Read More

Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on sales

Amazon came up a hair short on revenue expectations in the second quarter, but posted record profits, doubling Wall Street’s… Read More

Horse-monitoring startup Magic AI acquires Victory Parade to bolster its machine learning stable

Magic AI, the startup using artificial intelligence to better understand and care for horses, is adding more talent to its… Read More

Snowboarding sensation Chloe Kim isn’t worried about the robots taking over

Chloe Kim thinks fears of robots taking over the world are overblown. The 18-year-old snowboarder, who won a gold medal… Read More

SpaceShipTwo rocket plane pushes the envelope in third supersonic test flight

Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, to its highest-ever altitude today during its third powered test flight —… Read More

What is internet? Relive the Microsoft v. Netscape browser war in new series ‘Valley of the Boom’

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may provide an absurdly comedic take on startups and the modern tech industry, but a new series… Read More

The Playbook: Lessons in tech, business, sports and life from Adrian and Nick Hanauer

They grew up together, worked at the same family business as teenagers, and have both become household names in the… Read More

Amazon aims to make it easier to play music on Echo speakers with new Alexa Cast feature

Amazon is out with a new feature that makes it easier to control music on Echo smart speakers and other… Read More

One of Amazon’s earliest investors has this advice for winning HQ2 city

Nick Hanauer was the first outside investor in Amazon and he has watched the company transform its hometown, Seattle, over… Read More

As it awaits the close of the Microsoft deal, GitHub strikes partnership deal with Google Cloud

GitHub tried to put worries about its independence under Microsoft to rest Thursday, announcing a partnership with Google Cloud that… Read More

Trump targets Twitter, his favorite communication platform, following reports of ‘shadow banning’ Republicans

President Donald Trump weighed in on reports that Twitter has been “shadow banning” prominent conservative figures, criticizing his preferred communication… Read More

Microsoft investment arm M12 introduces $4M competition to fund women-led startups

Women-led startups get only a drop of the pool of investment dollars out there, and Microsoft wants to change that.… Read More

Mysterious digital marketing startup New Engen, led by ex-Zulily execs, emerges from stealth mode

New Engen, a Seattle startup run by ex-Zulily executives that arms marketers with technology to help them spend their budgets… Read More

OpenScope gives neuroscientists time on Allen Institute’s telescope for the brain

OpenScope is open for business. The Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science has taken a page from the playbook for… Read More

Boeing boosts revenue outlook, but tanker troubles bedevil second-quarter results

Second-quarter financial results that show higher revenue and earnings per share would typically please investors, but not for Boeing. Instead,… Read More

TLDR: Facebook misses revenue expectations, new Gmail coming to businesses, AI-powered robotic hand wins Microsoft competition

Today’s featured stories Facebook shares sink 8% as Q2 revenue and user growth misses analyst estimates Google rolls out Gmail… Read More