Articles from 2018 – Page 72 of 161

Geek of the Week: Say hello to Erin Murphy of Marchex, whose calling is analyzing business calls

Erin Murphy still uses her phone to make actual phone calls. In an age of texting and social media and… Read More

Amazon Web Services might be courting hybrid cloud customers in an interesting way

There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t… Read More

$200,000 for a trip to space? Blue Origin says price hasn’t been seriously discussed

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, is playing down reports that a suborbital space trip on its New… Read More

How the Mariners’ digital and physical marketing blitz helped get Jean Segura to the All-Star Game

TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: It took t-shirts, bagels, placards, hashtags, autographs, coffee, gift cards, videos, photos, and… Read More

Microsoft calls for government regulation of facial recognition technology

Microsoft is calling for increased government oversight on companies developing facial recognition technology, at a time when public concern about… Read More

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Can Amazon fix healthcare? Experts offer a dose of reality on the tech giant’s health partnership

The United States has a healthcare problem. The country spends more per capita on healthcare than any other place in the… Read More

Microsoft throws concert for summer interns in Seattle featuring Pitbull and Julia Michaels

Microsoft’s summer interns got more than just a beautiful night at Gas Works Park on Thursday, overlooking Lake Union and… Read More

Families brought to U.S. for tech jobs face ‘infuriating and degrading’ delays from USCIS

Jansi Kumar immigrated from India to the United States in 2016 because of a promise. She would be allowed to… Read More

Fast-growing sales automation startup Outreach scoops up Big Fish Games space for new HQ

Outreach is moving to a new headquarters as the enterprise software startup has already outgrown its current digs in Seattle,… Read More

Permit analysis details massive investment by Facebook-owned Oculus in Seattle-area footprint

Facebook is making a massive investment in a Seattle-area campus for its virtual reality company Oculus, and a new report… Read More

Optio3 raises $2.5M for enterprise IoT operations management software

Seattle startup Optio3 has raised $2.5 million for its enterprise IoT management software that helps real estate and transportation companies gain… Read More

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule arrives in Florida to get set for uncrewed test flight

After months of testing, a SpaceX Dragon capsule that’s designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 hires information security executive; DomainTools hires to expand globally; and more

Seattle-based security technology company F5 Networks hired Mary Gardner, a veteran information security executive, to be its new chief information… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

TerraClear raises $5.5M as Smartsheet co-founder continues work on rock-picking robot for farmers

Brent Frei is learning how to pick rocks with a robot as he continues to work on his new company,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Two ‘podcast fiends’ with past startup success launch Banter to aid in audio discovery

Countless startups launch and flame out, but entrepreneurs Steve Krenzel and James Reggio have a few factors that tip in… Read More

Nohla Therapeutics raises another $11M to support leukemia treatment trials

Seattle startup Nohla Therapeutics has reeled in another $11 million to further develop its leukemia treatment. The spinout of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer… Read More

Report: Amazon and startup Xealth working on program to deliver medical supplies to patients

Amazon and Seattle startup Xealth are working on a pilot program that will let doctors ‘prescribe’ items for delivery to… Read More

Top Microsoft chip researcher shifts to mysterious new Azure hardware division

When Microsoft shuffled the deck of cards that makes up its Azure cloud computing division a few months ago, it… Read More

Eventbase raises $6.5M for mobile event technology platform used by IBM, Microsoft, Cisco

News Brief: Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Eventbase today announced a $6.5 million investment round. Madrona Venture Group; BC Tech Fund; Kensington Capital;… Read More

As cloud competition heats up, Microsoft will pitch its partners on new Azure and Power BI features

Visiting Las Vegas in the middle of July seems like a questionable idea, but thousands of Microsoft partners will descend… Read More

New Microsoft 365 tools will tell users to stop emailing after-hours, enable live video events

At huge companies with people spread across different locations, employees aren’t always going to be in the same place, and… Read More

Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack

Microsoft today debuted a free version of Microsoft Teams, expanding the reach of the company’s Slack competitor beyond the Office… Read More

Silicon Valley startup unveils BlackFly, the latest entrant in race to field a flying car

A Silicon Valley startup called Opener is taking the wraps off a single-seat, all-electric flying vehicle known as BlackFly, which… Read More

Fans can swing for the fences in a virtual reality Home Run Derby during baseball’s All-Star Game

The Home Run Derby is often the most exciting part of Major League Baseball’s annual All-Star Game festivities. This year,… Read More

Netflix finally tops HBO in Emmy nominations; Amazon’s ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ gets 14 nods

Streaming television continues to assert its position as a force to be reckoned with when it comes to quality programming… Read More

‘Not like Amazon Go’: Nike debuts high-tech store that removes friction but keeps human connection

Nike is going high-tech with its newest retail store concept that opened today in Los Angeles. But don’t expect it… Read More

As Twitter cracks down on fake followers, SparkToro launches free tool to measure influence more intelligently

Seattle entrepreneur Rand Fishkin thinks it’s “so darn frustrating” that brands still use the number of followers an account has… Read More

Tech journalist and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy on the power of being polarizing

Sarah Lacy, a longtime tech journalist and columnist, knows the things she says can be controversial. Not that it’s stopped… Read More

Antarctic IceCube observatory tracks a single neutrino to solve cosmic ray puzzle

An array of detectors buried under a half-mile-wide stretch of Antarctic ice has traced the path of a single neutrino… Read More