Articles from 2018

Pyrotechnics pros wire 10,000 pounds of explosives for Seattle’s big July 4 fireworks show

Pyrotechnics professionals worked under the warm Seattle sun on the 3rd of July in preparation for the big show that… Read More

TLDR Editor’s Picks: GeekWire’s top Amazon stories of the year (so far)

This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: the… Read More

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is laying out a plan to support the creation… Read More

‘Everybody is a gamer’: Inside the first-ever Xbox video game competition at the Special Olympics

Tim Dempsey and Nicholas Rasmussen didn’t even know each other until a few months ago. Now they’re good buddies and… Read More

Seattle tech duo strike out for Detroit, hoping to spark a surge in startups in the Motor City

As Amazon considers tech hot spots across North America for its so-called HQ2, a more modest enterprise is departing Seattle… Read More

Mysterious Oregon startup Azevtec raises $8M for self-driving ‘zero-emission vehicle systems’

A furtive autonomous vehicle startup out of Bend, Ore. has raised $8 million from undisclosed investors. Azevtec confirmed the investment to GeekWire… Read More

Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner emerges at helm of secretive blockchain startup co-founded by former Myspace CTO

Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup… Read More

Microsoft’s massive campus refresh starts later this year, as tech giant picks architects and contractors for the job

Microsoft is one step closer to getting underway with the sweeping refresh of its Redmond, Wash. headquarters campus, with construction… Read More

Revealed: Amazon Go’s new Seattle location signals tech giant’s growing ambitions for checkout-free retail concept

Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company’s backyard, GeekWire has learned. The… Read More

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres are getting their closest close-ups from NASA’s… Read More

Author of ‘Why Women Don’t Code’ defends essay as colleagues, diversity experts challenge claims

Why don’t more women code? Stuart Reges believes he has an answer to that difficult question, one that the tech… Read More

A passing front? Diane Bryant out as Google Cloud COO after 7 months

Former Intel executive Diane Bryant, who joined Google Cloud just last November to give some executive support to Diane Greene,… Read More

Breakfast gets fun: Funko launches a cereal line called FunkO’s featuring pop culture characters

Move over, silly rabbit, cereal looks like it could be fun again thanks to a new line of breakfast treats… Read More

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks networks and neo-Nazis at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

The internet has changed the world in countless ways over the last 23 years, and we’re only beginning to grapple… Read More

Amazon Prime Day No. 4 starts July 16, will run for 36 hours with Whole Foods deals added to the mix

Amazon’s Prime Day is back again for its fourth installment. The retail giant is following up last year’s summer sales… Read More

TLDR Editor’s Picks: How Tech is Changing Seattle

This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: Tech… Read More

A year after Amazon acquisition, Whole Foods deals with centralization and layoffs

A year after its blockbuster acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, Amazon is shaking up in the way the natural… Read More

Textio sues former customer over optimized job descriptions allegedly ‘repurposed and sold to its own customers’

EDITOR’S NOTE: This lawsuit was dismissed on Oct. 26, 2018. Textio alleges in a new lawsuit that a former customer… Read More

Tech Moves: Icertis taps Caradigm CEO as new COO; UiPath adds another Microsoft vet; and more

Icertis, maker of cloud-based contract tracking and management software, has hired two new top executives. The first is Neal Singh,… Read More

GE quietly sells Caradigm to cancer company Inspirata, more than two years after Microsoft pulled out of the joint venture

News Brief: GE Healthcare has sold its shares of Redmond, Wash., based health technology startup Caradigm to Florida-based cancer diagnostic technology… Read More

Pyrotechnics pros wire 10,000 pounds of explosives for Seattle’s big July 4 fireworks show

TLDR Editor’s Picks: GeekWire’s top Amazon stories of the year (so far)

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

‘Everybody is a gamer’: Inside the first-ever Xbox video game competition at the Special Olympics

Seattle tech duo strike out for Detroit, hoping to spark a surge in startups in the Motor City

Mysterious Oregon startup Azevtec raises $8M for self-driving ‘zero-emission vehicle systems’

Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner emerges at helm of secretive blockchain startup co-founded by former Myspace CTO

Microsoft’s massive campus refresh starts later this year, as tech giant picks architects and contractors for the job

Revealed: Amazon Go’s new Seattle location signals tech giant’s growing ambitions for checkout-free retail concept

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

Author of ‘Why Women Don’t Code’ defends essay as colleagues, diversity experts challenge claims

A passing front? Diane Bryant out as Google Cloud COO after 7 months

Breakfast gets fun: Funko launches a cereal line called FunkO’s featuring pop culture characters

Amazon Prime Day No. 4 starts July 16, will run for 36 hours with Whole Foods deals added to the mix

TLDR Editor’s Picks: How Tech is Changing Seattle

A year after Amazon acquisition, Whole Foods deals with centralization and layoffs

Textio sues former customer over optimized job descriptions allegedly ‘repurposed and sold to its own customers’

Tech Moves: Icertis taps Caradigm CEO as new COO; UiPath adds another Microsoft vet; and more

GE quietly sells Caradigm to cancer company Inspirata, more than two years after Microsoft pulled out of the joint venture

Uber rolls out ‘Vehicle,’ a new magazine in Seattle and Washington, D.C., to share rider-driver stories

Working Geek: From rap fans to immigrant families, Remitly’s Kevin Nakao taps customers for answers

Unify Square raises $10M to help businesses deploy Skype and Microsoft Teams

Lyft joins bikeshare race with Motivate acquisition

SpaceX’s science-laden Dragon cargo spaceship hooks up with space station

Fred Hutch study: Nanoparticles could help cutting-edge therapies get inside solid tumors

Dell clears up its financial future, will sell shares to public while maintaining stake in VMware

Stem cells help fix damaged hearts in monkeys; human testing is on the way

Big Fish lands a new boss: Former EA and Zynga exec named president of casual games company