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Articles from 2018

Richard Sherman

Richard Sherman snags an early copy of ‘Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy’ for Xbox One

Richard Sherman may have left Seattle and the Seahawks for San Francisco and the 49ers, but at least he’s still… Read More

Cluck

Seattle engineer creates Cluck, a Chrome extension to identify scams in Craigslist apartment listings

After spending a couple years working at Zillow as a software development engineer, Joyce Wu thought she had a grasp… Read More

Microsoft establishes formal healthcare group, hires two new health leaders

Like many large tech players, Microsoft has been steadily increasing its healthcare work over the past few years. Today, that… Read More

Amazon opens package pickup location in Seattle, increasing brick and mortar footprint

Amazon has opened its first Seattle package pickup location, a storefront where customers can retrieve orders and return items. The… Read More

How can U.S. improve its immigration policy? We asked immigrant entrepreneurs and tech leaders

Seattle-area entrepreneur Mina Yoo has been in the United States since 1991, receiving a dual Ph.D. in sociology and business… Read More

Tech Moves: SEEVA taps Intellectual Ventures vet as CTO; Expedia appoints new vice chair; and more

SEEVA, a Seattle startup creating new technologies for autonomous vehicles, tapped Intellectual Ventures veteran Geoff Deane to serve as its first… Read More

Seattle housing

Seattle hits 20 months as the nation’s hottest housing market, but relief for buyers may be on the horizon

Seattle retained its long-running title of the hottest housing market in the country, according to the Case-Shiller national home price report,… Read More

Space Needle

Video: Crews dangle 500 feet above ground as last piece of platform is lowered from Space Needle

The elevated work platform that hung beneath the upper reaches of the Space Needle during months of renovation work was… Read More

Massive new Apple Store in Seattle set to debut on June 30

Apple has, for the first time, publicly acknowledged plans for a new store in Seattle and given an opening date:… Read More

Social sales-leads startup Socedo closing amid Twitter changes; engineering team joins Azuqua

Seattle-based social media sales intelligence firm Socedo is shutting down next month, and its four-person engineering team will join Azuqua,… Read More

Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban after long battle with states, activists and tech industry

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump in the legal battle over his authority to restrict immigration from… Read More

Fred Hutch study finds genetic cause of aggressive brain cancer

A new study from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found the cause of a type of aggressive brain… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit FAQ: What to know for Wednesday’s big technical conference

Planning to attend the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit this Wednesday? Here’s everything you need to know. If you still have questions… Read More

Jama Software lands $200M from Insight and Madrona to fuel product development platform used by big-name companies

Jama Software, a Portland-based company that makes a product development platform used by companies including Qualcomm, SpaceX and Amazon Robotics,… Read More

VMware jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with a new managed service for a multicloud world

An awful lot of enterprise tech companies of a certain age have floundered trying to reinvent themselves for the cloud… Read More

Overstock and Porch team up as they battle Amazon, others in home services industry

Porch announced a partnership with Overstock.com on Tuesday as it continues to expand the reach of its home services marketplace.… Read More

Matternet drone

Boeing HorizonX leads $16M investment in Matternet drone delivery venture

Boeing HorizonX Ventures has taken the lead role in a $16 million Series A funding round for Matternet, a California… Read More

Arkyd-301

Amid departures, Planetary Resources is holding out hope for an asteroid mining comeback

It’s been months since Planetary Resources had to scale back its asteroid aspirations because a fundraising campaign came up short —… Read More

TLDR: UW lecturer on ‘Why Women Don’t Code,’ Airbnb in Seattle, thousands line up for Shake Shack

Today’s featured stories University of Washington lecturer’s essay on ‘Why Women Don’t Code’ stirs controversy Airbnb opens big new Seattle… Read More

Toyota Mirai

Microsoft and Toyota are revving up interest in hydrogen fuel-cell energy tech

Grid battery storage projects like Tesla’s 100-megawatt installation in Australia may be getting lots of press, but behind the scenes,… Read More

T-Mobile’s FamilyMode lets parents monitor their kids’ screen time across devices

T-Mobile today introduced FamilyMode, a new device and app combo that lets parents track their kids’ digital activities across devices.… Read More

Zillow home

Seattle trails only Bay Area cities when it comes to greatest profits for home sellers, Zillow finds

Buying a home in Seattle these days is no easy task, thanks to low inventory and competition among the many… Read More

Judge denies former Microsoft employees’ bid to expand gender discrimination suit against tech giant

A federal judge has denied class action status in a three-year-old gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Microsoft by current and… Read More

KEXP digitization

KEXP and dream team of archivists plan digitization labs to help listeners save their music memories

Long before streaming came along and planted a song in your head digitally, music memories were collected on cassette tapes… Read More

Venmo launches debit card with the ability to split purchases with friends

Venmo is jumping into the physical world of banking by offering its own Mastercard-branded debit card. PayPal-owned Venmo unveiled the… Read More

Amazon HQ

Survey: Which Amazon HQ2 city would you live in?

In Amazon’s remarkable second headquarters competition, talent is the name of the game. That’s why we want to find out… Read More

Airbnb opens big new Seattle office with room for 300 people, setting down permanent roots

Airbnb has opened a new office in Seattle with room for more than 300 people, making it the latest tech… Read More

Microsoft and Razer reportedly adding mouse and keyboard support for Xbox One

Gamers may soon be able to use a mouse and keyboard with their Xbox One console. That’s according to a… Read More

Podcast

How science fiction can predict the future and help tech innovators make better decisions

Organizations may do better in planning for the future by thinking less like business leaders and more like science-fiction writers.… Read More

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl jet

Spaceflight launch services company adds Virgin Orbit and Cosmic Girl to its lineup

Seattle-based Spaceflight has a new product to offer customers who want to get small satellites up and running: Virgin Orbit’s… Read More

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